A personal or personal ad is an item or notice traditionally in the newspaper, similar to a classified ad but personal in nature. In British English it is also commonly known as an advert in a lonely hearts column. With its rise in popularity, the World Wide Web has also become a common medium for personals, commonly referred to as online dating. Personals are generally meant to generate romance, friendship, or casual (sometimes sexual) encounters, and usually include a basic description of the person posting it, and their interests.

Due to newspaper prices being based on characters or lines of text, a jargon of abbreviations, acronyms and code words arose in personals, and have carried over to the internet.

List of single-letter abbreviations

The following are examples of single-letter abbreviations used in three-letter acronyms (TLAs).

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During an interview with Michael Arrington at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bartz said the company had not been focusing that much on . personals. since 2007; . Personals. was something off to the side, she said. Bartz also said Yahoo was finished ...

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What are you able to do and not do with a free profile on Yahoo! Personals?
Q. I know that Yahoo! Personals offers the opportunity to create a free profile. If you do that, what are you able to do and what aren't you able to do in terms of contacting anyone else or replying to their messages?
Asked by Steelerguy - Mon Jun 22 19:50:40 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. you can only send flirt messages but you won't be able to leave contact info unless you subscribe. don't subscribe unless some one else is mutually interested in you by flirting back or contacts you first.
Answered by Tygah - Tue Jun 23 22:29:10 2009

Is there any customer support available for yahoo personals?
Q. I have a technical problem with yahoo personals. I checked yahoo help for customer support for this problem. I read that there is no customer support for this product. Is there any support available for this problem? Or is this yet another of yahoo's many glitches?
Asked by John - Mon Mar 9 23:46:08 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. If you have any problems use this link for Customer Care:
Answered by echinopsis . - Fri Mar 13 17:11:21 2009

What are the best dating and personals sites that are free?
Q. I have been to lots of dating and personals sites that claim to be free, but if they are free, they need a credit card to verify your age. and if they are truly free like singles net, and match doctor, they don't work. I need help if anyone knows of a truly free site that works with no credit card please help
Asked by lonelyguy - Thu Apr 9 23:27:38 2009 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments

A. the only one i know of thats 100% free is www.plentyoffish.com or just www.pof.com
Answered by Crash - Thu Apr 9 23:32:44 2009

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