There is a lot that you can do with Yahoo: share photos, stay in touch with loved ones, meet new friends, and even take the early steps in an online romance that has so many people flock to Internet dating services these days. Of course, there are more than photos that you can exchange. Take for example the Yahoo Messenger voice option that permits you to exchange spoken greetings via the PC to PC telephone option! That first telephone call in a new relationship can be somewhat of a scary proposition, but thanks to this fine service much of the apprehensiveness has been taken out of talking.

Of course, there are several other components that the service offers, such as webcam hosting and text messaging. In a stroke of genius, Yahoo decided to partner with Microsoft to avail themselves of their instant messaging technology and network. Since July 13th of this year this has become a reality, and these are but a few of the offerings of the new Yahoo Messenger: voice phone to PC calls, and of course the tried and true Yahoo share photos option.

You may wonder why so many online matchmakers favor Yahoo Messenger voice option, and the answer is quite easy to understand: in this day and age people, especially women, are hesitant to give out their contact telephone number to a virtual stranger. After all, the only thing she knows for sure about her new beau is the fact that he seems nice online, and that he looks handsome in his picture. Aside from those attributes, however, she knows precious little about him. Who is to say that he will not turn into one of those fatal attractions who will call her night and day, if she were to share her home telephone number with him?

Fortunately, with Yahoo Messenger voice option a woman is able to maintain a cloak of privacy yet also take the next step in a relationship that began online. She is able to permit a virtual stranger to call her from PC to PC or she herself can initiate this call! No longer do vital data need to be exchanged in order to get to know each other better. Instead, with a bit of anonymity intact, this modern version of video conferencing will allow for friendship at an arm's length. Aided in this endeavor are the other features that Yahoo offers. For example there are the stealth settings that permit a user to appear offline to some while displaying the online icon to other contacts. This will permit subscribers to the service to avoid unwanted interruption during their chats with people, but it will also prevent unwanted attention when they are busy doing something else. Let's face it, for some folks an "online" notation is akin to a free for all invitation to go ahead and bug that person.

As you can see, Yahoo Messenger voice option is indeed a stroke of luck for online matchmakers who have long since relied on emails and even instant messaging to get folks together. By being able to safely observe body language and facial expressions during video conferencing, or simply hearing the nuances in the voice when making PC to PC calls, online dating has most certainly entered a new dimension.