Providing a global online website and telecommunications network, accessed through computers, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, and other devices that are able to interconnect, to provide dating and matchmaking services and to enable people to find one another and make connections for personal, business and other reasons, by providing a database of biographical information concerning subscribers and a search engine and other systems for customers to use customized and designated search criteria to identify other subscribers, access a database of information on them, and then be able to communicate with them using audio and video content; instant messaging; message boards; video email; image exchange; real-time video communications; real-time audio communications; real-time text chat; posting of video and electronic and other forms of graphics and images; video message uploads; web cams; online non-video email; and providing customer service, virtual file management; virtual storage space; technical support services; internal networks; and extranets to support these networks