A poor site for genuine people
Review about Plenty Of Fish (POF)I was a member on POF for around 3 months, in that time I found no girls who interested me in more than friendship, but found plenty of clingy average looking girls who were getting way too serious far too quickly (without even meeting me). One was even talking about marriage. It also seems to have a high number of single mothers, so if that isn't your thing maybe its not the best site for you, At best the majority of girls on the site are average looking and seem to think that joining a dating site means that they'll find a poster boy - so if your only average looking you might struggle (but that is the same with any dating site). The vast majority of good looking girls tend to be fakes (ie men, not so pretty women hiding their true identity, or way of date pictures).
After 3 months my account was deleted with absolutely no warning or reason given. I had done nothing wrong on there and been normal and friendly with everybody. I tried re-registering a few times but my account kept getting deleted after 24 hours. I was a bit annoyed as I now have no way of letting a number of contacts know what has happened. But this site is also very sexist. Why do I say that? As a man I had to wait 2-3 days for my profile to get approved. A female friend of mine joined the site and received immediate approval, after registering her profile was public. Anybody make sense of that?
They have now introduced an Upgrade package which you have to pay for. All this does is adds a gold star on your profile to apparently show that you are a genuine person looking for a relationship. Perhaps a good idea, but its been flawed from the start as POF gave out the gold stars to a large number of women for free (I know three girls who suddenly found that they had become gold members). So you can't rely on that system, despite their boasts about it.