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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Most women on POF are lacking in an awareness of self. Their self descriptions are generally well beyond what they actually are. And the requirements/preferences of the guy that LIKE to meet are mapped to this significantly embellished self view.
For guys who are at the level they seek, that’s generally a big turn off. It demonstrates a lack of awareness of the world around them. Sure it’s good to be confident and have reasonable self esteem but it has to be within reality.
If you stay away from profiles as described above, there are certainly some desirable women on the site. Fair amount of effort to locate those, but if you have the time.
If you’re a reasonably attractive woman, doing OK in life and you find it difficult to meet men, YOU find worthy … it is usually because your self view doesn’t match the view others have of you. Correct that problem, I’m sure you’ll see a difference.
If you’re great/awesome, YOU don’t need to say it, it’s already understood.
I’ll change my opinion on that, as soon as I hear Robin Williams, telling people he’s funny.
Who am I … I’m average of course.
Seems like most women on POF are not interested in any guy who isn’t 80% of what they are looking for, before they even agree to meet. You can’t make decisions like that and expect a positive result. That’s the way, people who end up doing nothing think.
Most women there seem to be playing the man lottery game. They think it’s a game show. Except this time, there is no free luggage (baggage).
But POF is not really a dating site anyway … so it doesn’t really matter.
POF, seems to make dating MORE difficult rather than easier. There is a lot of wasted time and effort.
Wouldn’t be so bad if the people who actually showed up were close to their description. At least then you could enjoy a night or two doing something pleasant, regardless of outcome, so it is not wasted time/effort.
Most of the women on POF get gun shy pretty quickly in that environment. I don’t blame ‘em. But that doesn’t make it any easier.
A lot of the emails I got on that site had the phrase “if you’re real” in it somewhere. Yes sometimes was spelled “if your reel”.
I think POF is too much effort for little reward.
Some comments above mentioned a lot woman on the site have unrealistic expectations/requirements. Yeah, it seems that way. A lot of guys that seem pretty good complain about it. Most guys I expect would do better outside of POF.