Plenty of fish (POF.com now) Mobile Review

Site provides:

• People
  This is the biggest dating site in the world with 30 million registered users. There are thousands and thousands of people staying online. So you will always to have somebody to speak with. 25.000 people join the site every day.
• Chemistry
  This is feature which helps to join people by their interests, emotional conditions or wishes. So the sites says that it will find ideal partner for you future live.
• Platforms
  We have already mentioned that Iphone users can download the application and use all features of this service. There is also an Android version.

Site drawbacks.

• Design and communication features
  Site’s working and getting a number of new users every day but still there is a very boring and old stylish design, there are just basic things for communication like sending messages and adding photos. If we compare this with other dating sites you will be surprised but most of them have instant chats, video galleries, stylish look and graphics. Here the main aspect is number of registered people.
• Mismatches of the information
  Information about the site does not match. If you  in Itunes, there you will see in the description that site has 25 millions of people but the site itself writes about 30 million registered users. We understand that sometimes small mismatches can appear because of growing up the site or because of old version of the program. But here the version is 5 days up to date and still 5 millions of people have been not counted. The user aspect is that Apple’s applications allow you to download it then you are 17 but the site allows you registration only if you are 18. That mean you can download the app being 17 wait for one year and only then register starting searching for a partner.
• Feedbacks of the users.
  We have read a lot of users opinions and there are a lot of very negative feedbacks. People don’t like the design of the site and its functional side. You should be very careful with people you are going to start relationships. From the one side this is a free service and it’s an advantage for all people who don’t want to spend money for dating site. But from the other side people who want to deceive other people are quite often seen here. Some people find the “partner” on the site and after some weeks of chatting, they ask you to send some money. The reasons for sending can be completely different, but still be attentive.
• The photos
  The photos in preview thumbnails are not being cropped but somehow stretched. This sometimes looks very funny some girls became thinner or thicker. The faces look awful. Why nobody from 30 million of user speaks about is, is a mistake. This leaves a very negative impression not only about the design of the site but sometimes about the site itself.

Site summary and verdict.

The main part of users is from USA, Canada and Australia. So this is a free online dating service with great number of users. For elder generation this would be enough, they don’t need the variety of features or extra services. But the younger generation will definitely search for more. The mobile version can help in this case but without changing the whole design the site can lose many users. The mobile versions work fine but they don’t have some useful features like blocking the user or instant messaging. Maybe this functions will appear in coming versions. New name of site is POF.com now!

Verdict. This is definitely not the best example of dating site, but you can try it because it is free.

Our mark: 7/10

Official sites: itunes.apple.com, POF.com

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