Neil, who's posted over ads in Craigslist's Personals, is one of many who's gutted the section has now gone. It was removed due to a US sex trafficking bill which holds websites more accountable for ads placed by users. A statement posted on Craigslist says:. Any tool or service can be misused. We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline.
While the change to the US site was widely reported in March, the Personals quietly disappeared from the UK site in May , with users only noticing when they went online. Neil, who's used the Personals for the last eight years, says: "It's a hole in my life! It's something I've done since I was a teenager โ checking the ads was like a ritual.
I'm still in contact with the people I connected with. The good news is that Missed Connections survived the cull along with Rants and Raves, bizarrely.
They've both been moved to Community. But it's the end of an era for everyone who made friends, met shag buddies, had affairs, started relationships, and even produced babies, all via the Craigslist Personals. So here are a few Londoners who'd like to pay tribute to the online meat market where you occasionally found some Wagyu beef amongst the offal.
RJ, who's 40, is bisexual. He's used Craigslist for the last two years, and met over 30 men and women via Casual Encounters. He tells me, "the email exchange system would mask the original email address with a Craigslist one.
