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POF got its start in 2003 (as Plenty of Fish) and is now one of the world’s largest free dating services with more than 150,000,000 members. POF gets about 2.4 billion page views every month, and every day on average 4 million members logging in resulting in about 10 million conversations. If you are new to POF, you are not alone, about 70,0000 new users sign up every day. POF also usually has from 450,000 (during a weekday afternoon) to 1.5 million users (during the evening on Sunday) online at any one time. With these types of numbers, members are guaranteed to meet a variety of singles on the service actively looking for friendship, casual dating, and serious relationships.
Don’t let the nonexistent price tag fool you POF is a fully functional service with every feature you would expect from a dating site and dating app (plus a few fun bonuses). It starts out with basic profile information about you and what you are looking for. Initial signup questions cover children, marital status, interests, smoking and drinking habits, religion, occupation, income, family situation, relationship history, and more. Users then personalize their profiles with a headline, an essay description, and a list of interests. An optional essay on conversation starters is also available.
Most members will be interested in searching and POF allows you to do that easily on their app and website once you have finished setting up your profile. Just tap on the search button and your results are brought up right away using your default Dating Preferences that you entered when you created your profile. You can further refine your search filters easily enough by modifying the location you want to view and by the different sections of the profile including Bio, Background, and Lifestyle attributes. Almost all of the profile attributes can be used as filters, which is a lot and means you can really refine your search results. Once you start looking through your search results you can Like the profiles that you find interesting and message them as well.
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Another fun way to find local members is to use “Meet Me”. This is a matching type game that not only uses your Dating Preferences but other important criteria to show you potentially ideal matches one at a time. For ever person you meet you can either Pass (or swipe left), Like (or swipe right), or Like+ them. If you both end up liking each other that is considered a Mutual Match. You will both be notified of such a match and can then start to message each other.
Members who use one of the POF apps get a unique feature called Live. This is where members can live stream video of themselves and other members can watch and interact with them by chatting and sending them hearts and virtual gifts. You can find live streamers by popularity, those who are near by, and other common filters. In Live, POF also has a matching game called NextDate. If you both like what you see and hear you will be matched and allow to continue to do private video chatting. If things are not working out, you can tap the Next button to move on to the next date in the queue.
A free membership allows for full access to the site and apps, including Searching, Likes, Live Streaming (including NextDate), and communication with other members, but paying has its perks. Members who upgrade will appear higher in search results, have access to users who have Liked them in Meet Me, the ability to see if sent messages were read, the ability to see local hookups in Ballarat who viewed your profile, and online ad removal. Depending on the length of your term, upgrading your membership can cost as low as $6.99 a month.
