PlentyOfFish.com becomes POF.com
Popular free datingsite PlentyOfFish.com is rebranding to POF.com. Apparently POF.com is easier to remember than PlentyOfFish.com, especially in non-English countries ... [...]
Plenty of Fish (POF) - A Comprehensive Review
In the ever-evolving world of online dating, Plenty of Fish (POF) stands out as a notable platform that has helped millions of people connect with potential partners. With its robust algorithms, expansive user base, and unique personality matching features, POF has carved out a significant niche for itself in the online dating industry. This review delves into the various aspects of POF, assessing its strengths and identifying areas for improvement.
A Brief Overview of Plenty of Fish
Plenty of Fish (POF) is a free online dating service that boasts a rich history dating back to its founding in 2003. Its mission is to facilitate relationships by allowing users to connect with others based on compatibility and shared interests. Over the years, POF has grown exponentially, with members going on over 18 million dates annually. This popularity can be attributed to its user-friendly design, comprehensive features, and, of course, its free-to-use model.
Advanced Matching Algorithms
One of the standout features of POF is its advanced matching algorithms. Users are encouraged to take a comprehensive chemistry test, which assesses personality traits, relationship needs, and individual preferences. The results of this test help POF to create personality profiles and match users based on compatibility. According to POF, its algorithms and technology are unmatched in the dating industry, which underscores its commitment to providing genuine matches for its users.
Remarkably, the efficacy of these algorithms has been recognized in academic circles, with mentions in a Nobel Prize of Mathematics (Fields Medal) paper. This level of scientific backing adds credibility to POF's claim of having a superior matching process.
Safety and User Control
In the world of online dating, safety is paramount. POF addresses this concern by allowing users to control who can contact them. This feature is crucial for users who may want to avoid unwanted advances or interactions that could lead to uncomfortable situations. Additionally, POF actively removes users who are deemed unfit for the dating environment, thereby ensuring a safer space for genuine interactions.
While the platform implements these safety measures, it's always recommended for users to exercise caution and follow standard safety practices when interacting with others online.
A Broad User Base
POF claims to be about five times larger than any paid site, giving users access to a vast pool of potential matches. This wide reach increases the likelihood of finding someone who meets the desired criteria, be it geographic location, interests, or personality traits. For users seeking a diverse selection of potential partners, POF's extensive user base is a significant advantage.
The platform's free access model contributes to its large user base. Unlike many other dating platforms that require a subscription for full functionality, POF allows users to send messages, browse profiles, and utilize other key features without incurring costs.
How to Get Started with POF
Getting started on POF is simple and straightforward. Users can create an account by signing up on the website. The signup process involves providing basic information and completing the chemistry test, which lays the groundwork for personalized matches. Once registered, users can customize their profiles, upload photos, and begin searching for potential dates or partners immediately.
Moreover, POF offers additional features such as chat rooms, photo rating, and advice forums, making it not just a dating platform but also a community for singles seeking interaction and guidance.
User Experience and Interface
POF's interface is designed to be user-friendly, ensuring ease of navigation for its users. However, design preferences vary, and some users may prefer more modern aesthetics. While the platform provides a straightforward experience, there are opportunities for enhancing the visual appeal and interactivity of the site.
On the functionality front, POF performs well with responsive design elements that work seamlessly across devices. This is a critical feature considering the growing preference for mobile usage among online daters.
Potential Areas for Improvement
Despite its numerous strengths, POF is not without its challenges. One of the common user critiques revolves around profile authenticity. The platform's free access model, while beneficial for attracting a large user base, may also lead to an influx of fake profiles or users with less sincere intentions. Strengthening the verification process could mitigate this issue and enhance user trust.
Furthermore, POF could expand its services by incorporating more innovative features or enhancing existing ones, such as video calls or more personalized matchmaking suggestions. These additions could increase user engagement and satisfaction.
Conclusion
Plenty of
Good for women but bad for men
This is another site I have wasted 10 years of my life on.It is overwhelmingly populated by men which is great for women but bad for guys.A friends daughter has had lots of success on this site but I have been on here for over 10 years and the only mail I have ever had has been from admin.This site is only good for 3 types of men,1 the good lookers,2 the rich men and 3 the men who are good at telling lies that enable them to lure the women in.If you are ugly and poor like me don't waste your time because no one will be interested in you.
Pros
Free.
Cons
1)Fixed profile questions that don't let you answer honestly.2)Full of passport seekers,shallow women that go for looks and gold diggers.3)Terrible customer service.4)Awful layout.5)A waste of time for ordinary men.
Stay away from Plenty of Stinky Fish
Where to even begin...the messed up ratio of ten men for each woman is the start of the issue. It makes the women very stuck up and demanding. Even the baggage laden fuggly ones without a job think they are gods gift to man. When they get 45 emails a day from men begging for their fat as sses, it can explain it (almost).
If you are a guy, who is lonely and looking for a relationship go here to get your ego crushed like a hamburger placed under a steam roller!
These girls are so fuc ugly for the most part, that by looking through this site it may actually assist you in losing weight. Then they are shocked why the vast majority of men go there to find some-thing to stick their dck in.
Pros
It's free.
Cons
Everything.
POF Probably 0 Females...
This site was horrible I received few responses and none serious, I am guessing the ratio of this dating site is 65% M / 35% F so my title is a bit harsh maybe Plenty OF Flakes would be a better one. If you want a decent site for meeting ladies you are going to have to pay plain and simple...try(No Joke) www.giveyourhandabreak.com/gender/ for info on dating site F/M ratios.
Also check out best 15 dating sites which were tested and rated based on sucess the men had...There is also another site that has you pay for dates I would be a bit nervous about this but is does cut to the chase....Good Luck.
If you a Beta Male living in the USA you will need it.
Pros
1. Free
2. Get used to online dating without paying for it.
Cons
1. Zero Sucess at meeting women.
The Jaded and the Dip****
I was on POF when it first started up and I thought it was great, It was free, you could meet people, but in the last few years taken a drastic nose dive. If you are SERIOUS about meeting someone, "Man or Woman," you will need to have a lot of patience and be prepared for a ton of frusteration before you actually meet someone great; this is why.
I'll just go ahead and say it, "It's of the guys on this site." To alot of the men, it's a numbers game. They write they write "one" generic message then copy and paste it to as many women as then can.
That's exactly why sometimes a message will pop up saying "If you don't get a reply don't get discouraged, some of the women with great pictures get up to 100 messages a day)...Because they do. (and feel free to become discouraged)
And really, there not even decent messages. They are usually along the lines of "Sup?", "Need a drinking buddy tonight?", "Do you want to cam?". I mean seriously, from a woman's persective, if I had 99 of those kind of messages in my inbox I'd be frusterated and too .
Which takes me to my next point. If your a guy who is genuine with good intentions, takes the time to read the profiles and take the effort to write a proper email (like any woman deserves), the reality is they may not even get to it. Or worse they are already to jaded after going through all the B.S, to appreciate the effort you put into into your message.
What I would recommend that would make this site 60 times better.... Remove the ablitity to "Cut and paste", just like differant "Really great site" does.
This would prevent these Dip***** from borderling "Harrasing" the women to the point where they want to just say "I give up". It only takes a few (perhaps 6,000,000) bad apples to ruin the experiance for the rest of us.
Pros
It is free. Nothing to complain about that. Easy to Navigate and I know some people who it has worked for.
Cons
It is free, and if you are willing play the numbers game by copy and pasting one genric message and sending it to every woman you see, then yes it might work for you, But is you are a serious about meeting someone. I still say "put in the time and effort".... just to be patient
Plenty of Fail
Plenty of Fish is the worst dating site on the Internet.
While the concept of online dating is well meaning, the execution of it is very difficult. However, while some sites actually make an attempt at creating a useful and potentially rewarding user experience, it is clear that Plenty of Fish have no such aspirations.
For the honest guy, the site is teeming with fakes, con artists, delusional leftovers, social paths and attention seekers. There is probably 1 plausible candidate for every 99 you have the displeasure of having to swim past. However, many of the candidates are wary since they had to endure a sea full of equally dreadful denizens.
The honest woman has to endure a steady flow of cads and poseurs looking for a booty call. Encouraged by the amount of truth-stretching by a lot of the female ads, these hounds will post up equally embellished profiles and often completely fake photos. It?s like trying to find an honest person in the middle of a smash-and-dash riot looting fest. They do exist, but the chances are, you won?t find them here.
What makes Plenty of Fish particularly bad is that they clear promote all sorts of negative behaviour.
Although they will attempt to remove fakes and any profiles that have any hostility towards women, they are apparently less likely to remove female members who lace their profiles with an obvious tone of hostility towards men. There excuse is that they need as many female members as possible. However, how is that an excuse to promote negativity? It?s supposed to be about love and not hate, is it not?
Speaking of negativity. The man bashers have a place to hide out: the forums.
There is a small group of regulars that post up all sorts of negative comments about men in general. Sometimes the comments are blatant; sometimes they are cleverly couched in innuendo. However, these are left around while the moderator deletes rebuttals at her whim. It doesn?t take much to realize that the moderator, miss_Allison, has a clear agenda. She does not allow open dialogue about anything she deems to be ?done to death?. This really just translates to censorship of anything she can?t debate, but disagrees with. Members who speak out against it receive a permanent ban.
Essentially, this means that the forum site promotes intolerance to anything that man-bashers don?t want to hear.
The whole affair is a travesty, and people should avoid the site. The Internet community deserves far better.
Pros
- Free
- You don?t have to go there
Cons
- Full of Fakes, Frauds, Man Bashers, Sex Hounds
- Run like cheap backroom operation (and it shows)
- Membership is free but your time isn?t
- Will make you think that the world is full of narcissistic, delusional women and sex-crazed loser guys
- Forums are seriously biased towards man bashers
Cheaters and liars
I was only on the site for two weeks and that was too long.
I got plenty of responses to my profile and either they were married, creeps, liars, old photos, whined about the quality of the women, asked me to move in or marry them before they even knew my name.
There were no respectful men on there. None were serious about anything but a one night stand or a booty call. I was totally disgusted with the men my age on there.
Pros
It is free.
Cons
Losers, liars, cheaters.....don't waste your time!!!
meh....
Don't expect much, it may be plenty of fish, but not many keepers. For the most part, its people who've pretty much given up on trying. I may be one of the lucky ones who actually found someone on there, but it took over a year to find this person, and it turned out we both pretty much tired of the mainstream social scene. Apparently, if you want to be noticed, you have to pay on the site. It has results, but its time consuming, and frustrating.
Pros
free site, if you're really looking, theres some useful tips and guides.
Cons
like i said, it's mostly full of those who've given up on trying.
POF is full of Sociopaths & Narcissists
AVOID POF at all costs, unless you want to waste your time, deal with flakes, time wasters or risk serious damage to your mental health and personal well being.THIS is the WORST dating site ever. Plentyoffish seems to be full of narcissistic egotistical people. The women are the worst there, they are liars, manipulators, extremely selfish, materialistic, ignorant and stupid. Most of them suffer from dangerous personality disorder such as narcissistic and sociopathic personality disorders. It seems a lot of others also suffer from MPD, BPD. I've met already 2 people with severe multiple personality disorder(also know as dissociative identity disorder)and ran into a few women with sociopathic tendencies. The people on that site are sick bastards who pretend to be normal, but if you look at most of the photos, they always have an alcoholic drink in their hands, drunk in their photos, are engaging in risky behavior, or extreme sports, and they all have their hands on their waist on nearly every profile. The body language of someone with their hands on their waist is a sign of aggression, anger, assertiveness and of an aggressive personality. I have many "you cannot make this shit up" stories about people I've met off this site. One woman was not allowed to leave her apartment and would sneak out to have sex with random POF men inside of a dirty Starbucks bathroom in Brooklyn! This same woman also gave crap about not having a car in the NYC area, yet didn't have one herself and was not even allowed to leave her house! If you do meet someone who is not dangerously insane, they will waste your time, or reject you if you are serious about looking for a relationship. You will meet many immature grown women who are very unsure of themselves or what they want and will just lead you down a dead end road. Do not go on this site! Also, avoid Okcupid too, that is another worthless site, full of wanna be hipsters and women who are not serious about meeting a guy, and are just there to goof around. ALL free sites suck! Go to a 100% pay site, where everyone has to pay to join.
Pros
Its free, but even that is not good enough or worth the effort signing up.
Cons
The women are not serious about meeting or dating any guys, women do not take the site seriously. Women will waste your time, are just looking for penpals.
Horrible people, tons of fake people, liars, douchebags, narcissists, disturbed people with dangerous personality disorders or serious issues like multiple personality disorder, antisocial behaviors. Nothing but shallow, selfish, sometimes downright evil materialistic women with serious issues, such are undiagnosed borderline personality disorder and anti-social personality tendencies.
No Dates
I have been on there for years and not over 1 actual contact per year. I am a good guy, and always get bad comments form the very few that even respond. It is a waste of time. You get hopes up, then NOTHING. The few that I did actually meet with had no sparks either for me nor her..
I found the women there are skeptical or not even looking for a date.
Pros
free
Cons
no results
Better off wasting your time on /b/
Complete waste of time. Women think that all men are only looking for sex, however they don't take the serious guys seriously. Went on a few dates, needless to say the women I met were all unsure of what they wanted. If you're an attractive woman, expect tons of messages from men, if you're an attractive man, expect mesages from fattys and ugoes. Expect about 1 response for every 20 emails sent out, and out of those messages you get back, expect a short uninterested response.
Pros
It's free
Easy to use
Cons
Everything else.
Plenty of Fisher SUCKS!!!
If you are looking to hook up with hot guys this is the site. But be careful, most are unemployed, very shady. Con men. For Sex this is good but nothing else.
Pros
If you want a one night stand this is the site for you.
Cons
Fake PicturesrnCon MenrnUnemployed people wanting money
WOMEN!!!!! BE CAREFUL OF THIS SITE!!!!!!
I was on Plenty Of Fish for a while, and I can testify that for sure, that Markus guy, owner of Plenty Of Fish, does not care about the safety of the women on his site at all!!! All he cares about is his pocket book and how much he's making. I went on a date with a really good-looking guy, who turned out to be a total creep. I went out with him 3 times in total. On the 3rd date, we went back to his place. His apartment had pictures of several of his ex-girlfriends with their eyes plucked out! Needless to say, I got totally creeped out, made an excuse to leave, and I never went out with him again. But he kept on calling me and harrassing me. And even wrote me harassing emails through that site. I reported this Markus, forwarding the harassing emails to him as evidence, and you know what happened? He kicked ME off the site!!! And that guy is still on there!!!! And you believe that BS???
I read in one of the newspapers somewhere that the Orangeville woman who was murdered might've met her killer on Plenty Of Fish. However, Markus claims that the Orangeville woman was off his site when she was murdered. Honestly, I wouldn't believe a single word that guy says. He's probably lying in order to protect his pocketbook and his stupid site. I hope the police doesn't believe that guy. That guy's a moron and his site should be shut down. And I hope that it does get shut down, for the safety of all women!!!
Pros
easy to use, free
Cons
everything else
plenty of fish
this website sucks
Pros
it's free
Worst Site On The Planet
This is the absolute worst site for dating ever! The women are DANGEROUS. First of all they ALL lie...they'll swear they are being truthful...DON'T BELIEVE THEM. If you're in the market for lonely, deparate women who want nothing more than to "hook" someone...this is the place for you. My experience was horrible. I dated a few women whom I thought were normal from our conversations...NOT! First of all, if their profile says average body type...that means VERY OVER WEIGHT. They make POF their profession to hook someone...don't be fooled. Lonely, deparate women who can't meet someone by any other means flock to this site. Guys...hide your wallets!!!
Pros
NONE
Cons
Women are all liars
Fake Profiles
Site should be called Plenty of Degenerates
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