Frequently Asked Questions - Sending & Receiving Messages
Once you have dialed into the system, our prompts will guide you through the simple process of setting up your voice personals mailbox and recording your ad. Remember to speak clearly and directly into the phone.
Although as tools they share the same goal - to help you connect with interesting, new people, greetings on the Connector and your voice personals mailbox are used in different ways. Your voice personals mailbox ad (or greeting) is your identity on Interactive Male, and is available to callers to hear 24 hours a day. It should contain the most detail about who you are, and whom you are hoping to meet. Your greeting in the Connector is heard only by other callers in the Connector, and should contain information about who you would like to talk to right then and there. It can be short and direct, but feel free to have fun with it, and make it different from your voice personals mailbox ad if you feel like talking to someone different than who you're looking for in the voice personals mailbox. When you hang up, your connector greeting is erased, but your voice personals mailbox ad remains until you change or delete it.
In the Interactive Male voce mailbox system you can simply delete the message and move on. The person that left the message may send you another message, but that's all they can do. There is no way for them to get in touch with you outside of Interactive Male, as all of your personal information is kept confidential. While in the Connector, if you get an unwelcome message, or just don't like what you hear while you are browsing, you can block the caller from sending you messages by pressing 7, when the system prompts you.
Send them a message back! You can do this back-and-forth as many times as you like until you decide you are ready to take it further, whether by arranging a meeting or by giving out your name or phone number. Interactive Male's best feature is that you decide when you're ready to proceed. We keep your personal information private at all times.
We want everyone to have an enjoyable experience using our system. We will not tolerate any discrimination based on age, gender or race and we will not allow any references to illegal substances.
Messages are exchanged between callers using the voice personals mailbox system, and between callers on the live Connector. They can be used for introductions or to get to know someone else better. You can exchange messages many times. You can also leave them for callers on the Connector or in callers' voice personals mailbox. A connection request is a special type of message inviting a caller to join you in a private live conversation on the Connector.
Remember this is your introduction to everyone online, so take some time before you record to write out what you want to say about yourself, and about the type of guy you're looking for. Be specific, and sell yourself! Standing out from the crowd will help you get noticed! It's also a good idea to practice reading your ad aloud a few times, so that you sound more confident when you record. And no one wants to hear dead air or music
All kinds of men call Interactive Male. We find that while some are looking for a relationship, many are looking for something of a more casual, spontaneous nature, and they are willing to try something different in order to meet new men.
Voice personals mailboxes are the heart of Interactive Male, and your most powerful tool for connecting with like-minded guys. The ad you record for your voice personals mailbox is your 24-hour a day presence on the Interactive Male system, and should contain as many details about you and who you are looking for as you can imagine. Additionally, placing your ad in a category guarantees that the right people, those looking for the same kind of experience as you are, will hear your ad. Of course, having recorded an ad you'll need a way for interested people to get back to you, and your voice personals mailbox is where their responses will go. If you do not wish to run an ad, you can designate your box as being "For Responses Only". This way, when you reply to an ad you like, that person will have a place to send a message back to you.
