- This is a 100% FREE site!
- PlentyOfFish.com
is a totally free dating site - as a
free member you will have full access to all the features and be able
to contact other members for free!
- One
of
Canada's largest dating sites
- Create
your
own profile and upload your pictures
- Search
for other members within your
locale
- Wink at other
members for free
- Email other members using Plenty Of
Fish's internal
e-mail system.
- Instant
message other members.
- Participation
in the forum discussions
- Personality
based Matching system
- See
who's viewed your profile
- Date
Night: a way to
meet some fresh members you might have something in common with.
- Chemistry factor: based on the
optional
personality analysis.
- New
user searches
- Rating section
where you cast your votes on other
members.
- Members who are most
likely to respond.
- A
full search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
- gender
- age range
- marital
status
- location
to within 1 mile of where you live
- whether the
member has
pictures posted
- ethnicity
- smoking
- drinking
- children
- height
- body type
- income
- occupation
- education
level
Plenty Of Fish is a site with
vision. When we first entered
the site we were pleasantly surprised. It has a unique
approach with everything from the look to how it
communicates with its members. It's a real eye opener. We need to dig deeper into what makes this place so unique
and
work so well for the members.
For starters PlentyOfFish is a
site that gets the
message that dating is a social activity, without the hyped up notions
of "Ideal Mates" or finding your "Perfect Match". What we
like
most is that while most sites are out hyping up the notion of what
you're looking for, PlenytOf Fish gets people connected.
For
example, they have a Date
Night feature where the site offers a sign-up for members who are looking
to go on a Friday night date. Informal dates are encouraged with the
involved members making their own arrangements. It's a simple idea
but highly
effective at getting people together if they have the desire.
The Chemistry feature
matches members through personality analysis. It is a menu choice available
to you as a standard offering. It starts by you completing a
questionairre that helps identify your social characteristics and
perceptions. A result is generated in narrrative form which you
can read immediately after completion. The survey consists of 40
questions and takes
about ten minutes to complete.
The site's matching feature uses info from the Chemistry feature
and adds that to other pertinent search inputs to provide members with
some viable possibilities. There is a structure and logic to
it as we found the
searches
generated by this tool were pertinent and worthwhile.
When
we ran
our benchmark search at Plenty Of Fish
we expected to get our usual 20
- 40 listings of local members. That would have represented a
good
result. The results we got were for over 140 members, all
within
our locale! That really impressed us. The only
disappointment was that only 50% of members' listings had accompanying pictures. That's not ideal but with over 70 local
members'
listings available with photos, that's a great start.
The
listings contained all the usual stuff with high quality photos
that can be enlarged for closer inspection. Full profiles are a click away.
The
information is structured well, including member essays of themselves, their
interests, and their ideal first date. We found this to be
very
well done.
The administrators at Plenty Of Fish have
gone to great lengths to get the members to give lots of information
about themselves which is slanted toward likes and dislikes. This
comprehensive set of information is reflected in the profile section. If
you
check the information there, you don't really have a lot of questions about whether this is the type of person you want to get to know or not.
It's self evident.
The
in-depth information gathered via the personality analysis is also used to
create Matches. You can see these Matches in a gallery format (pictures only)
and then see a percentage score with each photo indicating the degree
of matching that surfaced through the analysis. If the member
is a
"new user" or is currently "on line" these details are also noted with the score.
As a viewer you can then click on the photo to access the
full
profile, including the completed analysis results as a readable
narrative. How accurate it can be is open
to question.
But even if it misses the mark by plenty, it's a
tool for
involvement and good-humored members will find a way to make it a
conversation piece where the match is misplaced.
How
do we grade a site like this, that offers many local listings and has an
involved membership with activities and lots of ways to interact?
Very highly. This is a Free site with no
restrictions on
member contact. They offer many great features, all for free.
It's on our short list of free sites to explore!
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