Posted on: 2013/08/26 12:57am
By: Anonymous (Firebird)
I dislike plenty is fish. I dislike its creator. Both on a personal level.
But let's use logic. POF has somehow grown into a giant date site. It is even mentioned on TV and movies as conversation between actors thus promoting and legitimizing this site in many minds.
It is getting harder to date at any age.
So people think of POF. It's free and if it is mentioned in a TV show or movie, it must be an acceptable way of dating.
People join POF and nearly everyone has bad experiences.
So they give up online dating.
I have also been on the paid sites. A little better since people are paying and have incentive to date.
But until POF and the crap date sites go out of business, a lot of people really looking for dates do not have a method that works.
Like it or not, social networking is not going away.
But it's like politics. Complain and do nothing or vote the creeps out.
By depriving POF of members means its owner loses his ad money.
By not using paid sites that steal your money, you force online dating to get better.
Your call people. YOU have the power. Not the date sites.
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2013/09/02 07:20pm
By: Browncoat1984
75% of the profiles I view on that site are trash. One-two line profiles that just say "hi" or "I don't want someone who plays games" or "I don't want drama." And the photos, if there are any, are usually blurry head shots that are hard to make out or people taking stupid bathroom mirror photos with a flash so bright you can't make anything out. And if you do get into contact with a woman you will be lucky to do more than exchange a few e-mails with said woman (this is a 20-something guy looking for other 20-somethings). When you do meet the wants/interests of the person (if they even think to put that in) they ignore you. I think I have maybe gone out with ONE girl from that site who didn't look much like her photo (it must have been an old photo).
Seriously people put effort into your dating profiles. That's how you attract people.
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2013/09/06 09:47am
By: Anonymous (Julia)
I have to agree with browncoat. It is all about the effort you put into your profile. Not only do your photos have to be thought out but what you say in the about me section along with your headline and even your profile name.
If these all don't reflect your personality then the right matches will not respond to you. If they are too vague or contain information that is not thought out then no one will respond because it looks like you are not serious about online dating.
I personally have had some good luck on both Match.com and POF. DOn't get me wrong the experiences were not perfect and I had to wade through a lot of muck before I found a few people on POF that I was interested in but it can work... with some work.
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2013/10/15 09:13pm
By: Gruntintunz
I very much have to agree with Firebird.
PoF sucks as powerfully as a Victorian sewer discharging into your local harbour.
The greed monger running this site has imposed all sorts of inane caveats upon his membership in recent months. Years ago all was well and good with a wide ranging event horizon which was expressive, expansive, not narrow minded and intellectually stultifying.
PoF now suffers from double standards combined with an unhealthily latent undercurrent of hypocrisy. If a 'gentleman' posts up a photo or two with anything approaching a *censored* bulge he gets deleted whereas a 'lady' can exhibit copious jugulence with very little objection(s).
"Intimate encounter" was discontinued whereas meaningless terms like "hang out" are still allowed. All interwebby 'dating' sites are actually all about sex, start middle and finish. The sooner this Marcus geezer realizes this the better off we will all be rather than having a sanctamoniously imposed set of personally imposed values imposed upon us as adults !
Just imagine a scenario where one had actually been stupid enough to pay for his dubious service, fallen foul of his strictures and suffered the ignominity of deletion before even being allowed to contact any women ?!?
There are Plenty Of Fictions more which i intend to expose and highlight on here before i'm finished with PoF, but will leave it at this for the time being.
Apperently there are professional hackers working hard to dismantle this site. Personally i wish them every success. Frankly the field is now wide open for someone with nous and enough savvy to create a fully free truly adult site for people let's say over the age of 20 to post up photos and profiles free of controling censorship.
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/08/25 11:29pm
By: Anonymous (i boycott POF)
I recommend boycotting POF. I come across prostitutes who try to solicit. I am done with this site. No more.
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/08/26 09:43am
By: Anonymous (ed)
even if you do get a reply the quality of the females is very low..airhead divorcees ,drunks with big aspirations..
overgrown 60year old rockers that still visit rock festivals ..the complaints on utube are many and numerous ..i suspect many dead profiles that never get a visit ..many complain of never getting any men to reply and its their 2nd or 3rd time of joining..
nobody likes POF ..AFAICS
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/08/29 10:25am
By: Anonymous (jim)
if you send a 100 messages you will be lucky to get a polite 'no thanks' from the POF women..its like shallow hal in reverse ..empty headed females all corralled in one place
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/09/02 03:26am
By: Anonymous (stevey)
dont hit the upgrade as it leads nowhere except a hit on your credit card ..i suspect phony accounts to get you to pay ..as those same profiles should be available anywhere on the site where you dont have to pay
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/09/04 07:01am
By: Anonymous (sidney)
POF is now owned by match dot com so that's further proof it has as much integrity as the horse droppings on a stables floor .and a stink to match
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/09/07 04:52am
By: Anonymous (eric)
i did a test on women with no photos on their profile.. sent out a batch of messages to those in my local area and received no replies .its like a ghost site of nobody.. or they're looking for a George Cloony clone
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/09/10 10:59am
By: Anonymous (bob)
After her marriage broke down, Jenny Beard knew finding love again wouldn’t be easy. Not only was she 42 and the sole carer of her six-year-old son Will, but her demanding career as an accountant left her with precious little time to socialise.
Nonetheless, she didn’t want to be alone forever, so when she heard about an internet dating site for single parents like herself, she joined without a second thought, Jenny told Channel 4 News in a programme that will be aired tonight.
Describing her interests as ‘going to the theatre and restaurants, enjoying country walks as long as they feature a tea shop’, she was hopeful she would meet mature, like-minded men who understood the difficulties of bringing up a child alone.
What she didn’t expect was to find herself posted as a ‘hot date’ on cheesy lads’ magazine sites, and bombarded by spam emails from people who didn’t even exist — or if they did, had anything but a country walk in mind.
Jenny Beard was shocked to find her pictures, submitted to a singe-parents dating site, on sleazy lads¿ mag sites
Jenny Beard was shocked to find her pictures, submitted to a singe-parents dating site, on sleazy lads¿ mag sites
Over the course of the four years Jenny has been on the site, not one of the men she met has been a member of justsingleparents.com where she originally posted her profile. Not one of them had even heard of it. Alarmingly, half were not parents at all and only one had a child the same age as her son.
Worse still, her picture and profile have been plastered across tawdry dating websites belonging to ‘lads mags’ such as Nuts and Loaded that are more associated with scantily-clad girls in semi-pornographic poses than professional, middle-aged women like Jenny.
She is just one victim in an extraordinary dating scam exposed by two industry whistle-blowers.
Unbeknown to Jenny, justsingle parents.com is run by a parent company called Global Personals — a legitimate company most members never will have heard of, but which passes members’ details freely between the 7,500 sites it owns, meaning they are inundated with unwanted and inappropriate advances.
The company has also created ‘fake’ profiles, by lifting photographs off the internet, and ordering staff to flirt with unsuspecting members, outrageously flattering them into renewing their subscriptions.
Disturbingly, their deception has proved an unqualified success. Global Personals — whose headquarters are in Windsor, Berkshire — makes £40 m a year, employs 130 staff and is believed to take a 40 per cent cut of every membership subscription, with the remainder going to the spin-off company.
But it is at the expense of women like Jenny, now 46, who is astounded by the way in which she has been duped.
‘Internet dating seemed the best way of meeting people,’ she says. ‘But I’m shocked by how many sites I’ve ended up on. It’s upsetting and annoying. I’m nobody’s idea of a Nuts hot date. It’s the last place you would expect to find me and a waste of time and money.
‘I’m not surprised they’re making up people. I’ve received no end of emails from men who say they like my smile, but clearly haven’t seen my profile. I won’t be renewing my subscription.’
Certainly, Jenny’s experience serves as a cautionary tale to those tempted by the increasingly popular world of online romance, said to be worth £2 billion globally. She first started internet dating in September 2008, eight months after her seven-year marriage ended.
Fake profiles were created by a team scouring social networking sites and stealing people's photos to use on their fake profiles
Fake profiles were created by a team scouring social networking sites and stealing people's photos to use on their fake profiles
‘I have a serious job. My options for meeting men are limited,’ she says. ‘This seemed the best way.’
She began by joining a site called Plenty of Fish, but, within weeks she realised it was unsuitable.
‘It’s hard to say without sounding snobby but I’m a professional person with a degree,’ she explains.
‘It was very good for meeting dustmen, builders and mechanics who are perfectly nice but not right for me.
‘Apart from anything else, it’s free and attracts people with less money. I thought finding a paid service would be more appropriate.’
So she researched online and came across justsingleparents.com. With membership costing £20 a month and members all purportedly having experienced single parenthood, she was more likely to meet like-minded people, she reasoned.
‘I wanted to meet people with children because they understand that anyone else in my life won’t be my top priority,’ she says.
Her son Will, who’s now ten, also was keen to see his mum with someone nice ‘to look after her’
But what Jenny didn’t realise was that when she joined justsingleparents.com that she would be exposed on websites she’d previously never heard of.
Worryingly, the practice, while misleading, is perfectly legal. It is called ‘white-labelling’ and happens when a product produced by one company, such as Global Personals, is rebranded by other companies — in this case dating websites.
Who knew?
Internet dating amongst those aged 50-plus has risen by 40 per cent in the last year
Also, in a bid to boost their revenue, the company was specifically employing staff whose sole job it was to set up and run fake profiles on the dating sites, to keep members interested. Within weeks, Jenny got her first warning signal: She’d begun emailing a fellow single parent from her area and the pair had swapped phone numbers:
‘I texted him and said “it’s Jenny from Just Single Parents” and he replied “what?”’ she recalls. ‘He’d never heard of the agency. I was put on the back foot and so flummoxed I didn’t contact him again.’
It was another member, Jenny recalls, who explained that their details were passed around various dating sites: ‘I felt put out and rather stupid,’ she says.
Nonetheless, as the months passed, she was sent three emails a day from unlikely suitors, who ranged in age from 22 to 73. ‘I deleted them before reading,’ she says. ‘I can’t remember any being particularly crude, but maybe they were and I never saw them.’
Jenny says she quickly suspected some of the identities were fake. ‘I know I got emails that weren’t from real people,’ she told Channel 4 News. ‘You’d ask a man a question, such as how many children he had, and would get a reply tell you how happy they are they’ve met you.’
Describing her interests as 'enjoying country walks as long as they feature a tea shop' Jenny hoped to meet a man who shared her passions, but was sadly disappointed
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2226029/Accountant-Jenny-hoped-internet-dating-man-share-country-walks-Instead-plastered-sleazy-lads-mag-sites.html#ixzz4sHvq0EoC
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Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/10/03 08:40pm
By: Anonymous (stevey)
i drop by there once in a while .but its now populated by women who only appear to be in the section where you have to pay to see their profile..this stinks of a scam imo.. it was hard to get any replies from females in any case ..i find its better to chat to women in the street or supermarket.if you chat to a dozen women in the street its better than this BS site.. mark the owner can kiss my RS
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/10/21 10:50am
By: Anonymous (dolphs mate )
a mate of mine looks like dolph lundgren and joined POF for some company and after sending out 100s of messages he cant get any replies ,,very suspicious
Re: WHY sites like POF must be boycotted.
Posted on: 2017/11/25 07:59am
By: Anonymous (ed)
i received this mail from the ceo
offering black friday discounts ..never knew anything about all this technical stuff
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