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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Plenty of Fish Online Dating Service Review

By now I’m sure almost everyone has heard of Plenty of Fish. For those who haven’t, Plenty of Fish is a free online dating website that claims to have “More dates, more relationships, more visits than any other online dating site”.  Claiming “over 7 million conversations per day”, finding your soul mate shouldn’t be a hard task to accomplish. From all the free dating websites, this is definitely one of the ones I enjoyed the most. Find out why in the review below.

Signing up for Plenty of Fish was easy enough. Like all dating sites, you create a username and password and fill in some basic information about yourself and your account is ready. Once you have signed in you can begin to create your profile. You start out with a basic questionnaire about yourself with questions such as hair color, smoker or non smoker, religion, etc. One of the questions I really liked was the “I am looking for”. It lets you select between hang out, long term, dating, friends, or intimate encounter, which should make it much easier to find someone with the same purpose on there as you. Other questions such as interests and first date really seem to be quite helpful in the matchmaking process. Once everything is filled out your next step is to upload a profile picture.

A great thing that Plenty of Fish has that I haven’t seen anywhere before is their Chemistry Predictor. You select between Disagree, Somewhat Disagree, Somewhat Agree, and Agree on questions such as “I get nervous easily” and “I am a very productive person”. The answers to these questions are then used to set you up with our most ideal match on the site. Once you have done this you are pretty much ready to go. One thing I would recommend that again I haven’t seen on another free dating site is to take their Relationship Needs Assessment.

The Relationship Needs Assessment determines what you need in a relationship based on 9 key factors:

Interdependence                                            Intimacy

Self-Efficacy                                                    Relationship Readiness

Communication                                               Conflict Resolution

Sexuality                                                          Attitudes About Love

Preferred Expressions of Affection

I found the feedback to be quite useful and fairly accurate and it should be a great help for anyone, not just for those interested in online dating. Another great thing that the assessment does is give you certain things that you might Over-value or Under-value. They choose certain questions you answered and give you possible reasons as to why you might feel that way.

One of the best features that I have seen on Plenty of Fish is the “Will Respond” option. Clicking on this will pull up a list of users that have been online in the last 20 hours and are expected to be online again within the next 3. This is a great tool so you don’t sit there waiting on someone for days to reply or might not log back on again. If you enjoy the website, they have a member ship upgrade for $35.40 for 3 months, $51.00 for 6 months, or $81.40 for a year, with a ton of useful features such as seeing who voted yes, no, or maybe on your profile and seeing if your messages were viewed or deleted. If you are looking for a great free online dating website, Plenty of Fish is one I would highly recommend. Have you had any success with Plenty of Fish? Leave your experiences with the website in the comments below.

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