Plenty Of Fish Sucks
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This is my first post. Let’s get right to it then:
If you are like me, and I know there are “Plenty” out there. You have had it with the pathetic excuse of a meeting arena called Plenty of Fish. Sure, that’s an opinion. But it’s an opinion that would be shared by many of people that have actually been on this online dating site.
Essentially the concept is prone to failure from the start. Why? Because it’s about earning money for the site owners. There is no incentive to create a real and rewarding experience for the user. No there isn’t.
They need to grow membership in order to do that. There’s no trouble in getting men to sign up. It’s online after all. There are “plenty of men.” The trouble is in getting women to do the same. In order to do it, they end up completely catering to them. Even then the men seriously outnumber the women.
Let’s be honest here. The average women DOESN”T need to go online to get attention. The game has always been played outside: On the streets; in the supermarkets; at the gym; in the classroom; etc. When ever and where ever men and women mix, men will be trying to pick them up. The women that sign up to online dating sites are largely the ones that aren’t succeeding in those traditional venues (or are not satisfied with what they are getting attention from in those venues).
That means the women on the online site are a combination of undesirables (for whatever reason) or those that have an over-inflated self-worth (“princess syndrome”).
Even with that knowledge, I set up a profile.
Probably like most guys who were seriously thinking that this may work, I was absolutely honest on my description. I didn’t add inches to my height, I didn’t take liberties on my body shape and I used real, current and clear photographs. I filled up a page with honest information.
Did I get solicitations? Sure: From overseas gold-diggers looking for a meal-ticket. From women 10 years older than me. But from the locally and around my target age range? No, not so much. A couple of unsolicited requests ended up in a series of email exchanges where the women basically asked questions that were already answered in my profile, while they sidestepped every question I had for them (since they hardly wrote anything on theirs). It was like I was selling a car and these were just dreamers coming by to “kick the tires”. What a monumental waste of time and effort.
When I sent out messages to women that I was reasonably sure would be at least responsive in the real world, there was rarely a response. It didn’t take long for me to figure out that the user base was completely skewed.
I’ll be shutting down my profile soon. Sorry for the few that have made me a favourite, but my advice to you is to stop wasting the precious minutes of your life and go out into the real world to find romance.
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Plenty Of Fish Sucks
The biased world of the Plenty-of-Fish “Forums.” If you are a man-hater, you’ll have a lot of company. If you post the truth, you’ll have those posts deleted by the so-called moderators.
Your Fish that has evolved,
Hackers have breached the database of online dating site PlentyOfFish.com, exposing the personal and password information on nearly 30 million users. In response, the company’s founder has implied that the editor of KrebsOnSecurity.com was involved in an elaborate extortion plot.
Getting hacked is no fun. Learning that you’ve been hacked when a reporter calls is probably even less fun. But for better or worse, I have notified dozens of companies about various breaches over the years, and I’ve learned to read between the lines in how victims respond. Usually, when the company in question replies by implicating you in an alleged extortion scheme, two things become clear:
1) You’re probably not going to get any real answers to your direct questions about the incident, and;
2) The company almost certainly did have a serious breach.
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Earlier this month, I was contacted by an Argentinian hacker named Chris “Ch” Russo, who said he’d found flaws in pof.com. In July 2010, Russo had alerted me to some security vulnerabilities he’d claimed to have found in the Web site of ThePirateBay.org, which he said exposed password and other data on millions of TPB users. On Jan. 19, I heard again from Russo, who told me he and some friends had found bugs in pof.com that let them view account and password information on any PlentyofFish user. He said the information was being circulated in the hacker community, and that he could prove the flaws existed if I simply created a free user account on the site. I did so, and Russo proceeded to read me my registration information.
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That was enough for me to fire off an e-mail to pof.com Founder Markus Frind. When two days elapsed and I still hadn’t received a reply, I asked Russo if he had any other contact information for Frind or other pof.com administrators. Why sure, he had them all, he said. He gave me the phone number of Frind’s friend, Annie. A woman named Kate answered when I called, but said she would relay my message.
For the past 10 days, Frind has promised a response, but otherwise dodged my emails. I began actually writing up a blog post about this hack yesterday. This morning, I awoke to find a rambling blog post that indirectly accuses me of participating in an extortion scam, before mildly backtracking from that claim. At one point in Frind’s post, he says he grew particularly alarmed when he saw that Russo and I were “friends” on Facebook. Good thing he didn’t check the kinds of people I’m following on Twitter: He might have really had a heart attack!
Part of the reason pof.com has a problem is because its database is insecure. POF claims to have closed the security hole and reset all user passwords. But on top of that, the company appears to store its customer and user passwords in plain text, which is a Security 101 no-no. Companies that fail to take even this basic security step and then look for places to point the finger when they get hacked show serious disregard for the security and privacy of their users.