Plenty of Fish

PlentyofFish is a popular social networking and online dating service boasting that "Plentyoffish.com is larger than all other free dating sites combined!" The site uses individual member locations and message filters to determine viewable profile matches between people. The site was ranked as the #2 most visited personals site by Alexa Internet as of May 2006; with similar traffic levels to major pay sites like Lavalife, eHarmony and JDate. (It should be noted that these sites each average roughly one quarter the traffic of Match.com, the category leader.)

About

PlentyofFish is primarily a free internet dating service that attempts to differentiate itself from other online services (such as eHarmony or Match.com) in a number of ways.

Primarily, it does so by being a free. Its entire revenue is based on Google advertising and its staff is limited to two people, the creator and his girlfriend with a few volunteer forum moderators. It was reported in the media that creator of the site, Marcus Frind, makes about $10,000 a day from advertisements displayed on his site. The service was created by Markus Frind and copyrighted by Plentyoffish Media INC. His reason for beginning a site is "I created this dating site because I was sick of seeing faceless corporations prey on people looking for love. In my mind finding love is not about handing over a monthly fee to some dating site that only cares about making sure you stay another month to pay them again".

Aside from being free, the site is constantly changing based on member feedback. Its main focus is allowing members to meet with the type of people they have selected; they feature a member "filter" for messaging. Using this feature allows members to block messages from individuals or even whole groups of other users they aren't interested in.

Plentyoffish is a truely great concept and being the only free site of this kind that I know of has made a great difference in the lives of many of it's " clients ". It brings people together with it's sense of community and offers so many people an opportunity to "get out of themselves " by using the forums offered at the site . I have been there for about a year primarily to read the forums as user ~Larrson~ and in the time that I have been using the site my circle of friends has grown exponentially and I have met some truly great women.

Thank you plentyoffish for a truly contradictory offering .

External links

• Plenty of Fish
• Alexa top sites listing - Personals category

I think the following post is completely untrue for the most part!! I personally know many who have been deleted for absolutely NO reason whatsoever!! In fact, I know 2 people who forum posts were deleted (for unknown reasons and NO explanation), and when they politely inquired as to why, they were deleted without explanation then too!!!!! As someone who tried to be a sincere and dedicated user on plentyoffish, I am more than happy to say that I am glad to be out of there. The forum moderators play immature games of hide-n-seek with people's honest opinions, while Markus show absolutely NO business savvy by deleting users who have done nothing wrong - aside from maybe defending themselves against a flame attack in the forums (so why don't the initial flamers get deleted instead?? Problem solved then, right??? I have names, dates, incidents and anecdotes which can be proven to support my comments here... but like everything else on POF, I suspect this will be deleted too!

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. I think this is untrue for the most part. Those that have been deleted know exactly why and are playing games if they say otherwise. Most have gone against the rules at some point. Being a very active member of the forums and the parties, I am aware of a lotthat goe gone amongst the ontarionmembers and I know that what has been stated here isn't true for the majority.