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Methinks the free sites doth protest too much. I've used Plentyoffish, Okcupid, and Match.com. Only Match.com was a fraud-free experience. Sure, a paywall induc
by jquery 16y ago
Methinks the free sites doth protest too much. I've used Plentyoffish, Okcupid, and Match.com. Only Match.com was a fraud-free experience. Sure, a paywall induces a motivation for 1st-party fraud, but it drastically reduces the motivation for 3rd-party fraud. Someone who solves both will become a rich individual.
For the record, I met my beautiful girlfriend of two years on Match, so count me as biased. :)
- Goladus 16y agoI've used okcupid for maybe a year and a half, and have gotten maybe two or three fraudulent messages,
- jquery 16y agoI recieved a chat request from a women 30 minutes after I signed up, while I was editing my profile. She looked like a model and her profile picture was her in a bikini. It took her 5-10 minutes to respond to my IMs, which were mostly me asking her if she was a legit and "her" saying "yes, I'm real." uh huh.
- Goladus 16y agoLike I said, I've seen a couple fakes. They've always been really easy to spot, though, and disappear quickly. I'm in the Boston/Cambridge/Brookline area, though. I imagine the real:fake ratio gets worse as you get into more sparsely populated areas.