Lots of people, guys and girls, recommend Plenty of Fish online dating (which I dub Plenty-Of-Flesh) because it’s free. I’ve been a member there twice now, and I haven’t been impressed either time.
The site places a lot of emphasis on photos, which has led to people judging one another not by their messages, but solely by looks. I’m not impressed with the forum moderator either, who has a firm yet obnoxious and stuck-up attitude to posts that raise questionable suggestions issues, even with the site.
Many of the people there have been rude and/or full of hot air, both in the forums and through messaging. Even the friendliest of messages went ignored - the sent messages list proved extremely helpful in finding out just where they were going.
Plenty of Fish advertises itself as a dating site, which is my biggest disappointment: the only people who’d enjoy Plenty of Fish are the average loud, outgoing people who already have “great” lives and have no intention of being serious.
As with most other places I’d suggest someone experience it for themselves, if only for them to reach their own conclusion. I’ve had much better results with Match and Perfect Match.
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Plenty of fish with leave you with the biggest headache. Look forward to getting some responses only to NOT be able to access your account because they throw them out left and right, and forget trying to ask for site assistance, you WON’T hear back from them.
Awesome … user review 168 is exactly the type of person I’m talking about, in my previous message/review. She has immediately eliminated all men who are short/bald(ing)/fat … I’m assume because she is so awesome herself, but is clearly weak on character … bravo.
She is looking for smart, funny, fit, athletic, handsome, established, professional gentleman with all his hair, her age or younger and at least 6 feet tall.
Now I don’t think she is really like that, given her education level … slightly below mine … but I’m sure that’s what she presented in her profile … and then wondered why this guy wasn’t showing up. That wasm’t very smart.
Well, i checked out the site briefly. My conclusion:
The vast majority of women on the site are shooting for THEIR long shot. Nothing wrong with that, but that only occurs in that special place between sleep and awake. And this is on top of their deluded self perception.
So I can’t see any decent guys taking this site seriously … other than the sex angle … which is just crazy at an internet level on pof.
Anyway, that combination starts the ball rolling DOWNHILL pretty quickly.
Before people scream, I did scan the male side in my area … there is no shortage of delusion there either.
In the end, it seems POF is mostly filled with people (male/female) mired neck deep in a delusion of self perception.
I don’t know about the single parent side, not my interest, but they seemed pretty nice (female).
There are some nice people there. I met four in the 3+ weeks I was there, newbie effect I suspect. All of whom, decided they wanted to “explore” some more before they made their final selection. GOOD NEWS, 3 called me back within 6 weeks to inform me I have been selected. Clearly, most guys, including me will pass on that one.
To be fair however, I suspect a lot of decent women are driven off quickly from what appears to be a fair amount of male waste on the site.
I was shocked by the sex and dating forum on the site. Not the content but why someone (moderator) would allow that on a dating site.
The site itself is nothing more than a trivial database lookup … little more than a simulated file cabinet. If they had cross match functionality, which is trivial, you wouldn’t waste so much time continually looking at people who are not interested in you or vice versa. Using a computer for a dumb file cabinet is pretty silly.
My biggest concern however, which will keep me OFF the site, is there are a number of players, albeit amateurs, on the site … who do frequently meet women/men for 1 day to 4 week “relationships”, both of whom then re-enter the site. Given the small pool of people there, it is a fairly high risk environment.