The Advantages and Disadvantages of Adult Friend Finder Dating Service
Online dating communities are one of the most fast-growing branches of Internet industry of products and services. According to the latest statistics data, hundreds of new dating communities, webcam chats and portals appear all over the world as well as hundreds of them are shut or banned by search engine systems due to the violation of privacy policy or numerous complaints concerning hidden scammers covering their criminal intentions under such fake dating communities. However, not all dating communities hide scammers; there are very popular dating resources where people can meet dating or sex partners, depending on their motives and likings.
How to define if you are involved into a scam hidden by a dating service or really have found a reliable online dating community? Let’s try to figure out by giving an example of such well-known and old online dating service provider as Adult Friend Finder.
Appealing to the history of this resource we should mention that Adult Friend Finder online dating community is one of the first global portals in this sphere of Internet entertaining and social services which was launched by its famous founder Andrew Conru and managed to become one of the most frequently visited dating resources in our days. Initially created as a small online community nowadays Adult Friend Finder can boast launching of several successful spin-off sites and closing very profitable contracts with the most famous and powerful corporations of adult entertainment industry. More than 20 million members have registered accounts on Adult Friend Finder and this number only grows due to the popularity of this community among Internet users. According to the statistics, Adult Friend Finder was ranked as one of the 50 most visited world-wide Internet resources and this fact is definitely a success indicator for an online dating community.
How does Adult Friend Finder online community work? The paramount task of such resources is drawing attention of potential clients who will be ready to pay for getting an access to other users’ profiles to have an opportunity to receive contact info of their possible dating partners. And Adult Friend Finder (also known according to its short title as AFF) positions itself exactly from this point allowing its numerous members communicate with their possible dating and sex partners by paying by the month a certain fee and getting an access to the accounts database of the most popular and interesting people signed up for this web resource.
In fact AFF resource is a place where anyone can find for him/her a potential sex partner or take part in a virtual chat letting get acquainted closer with other members of this dating service. A user starts from signing up for a free membership allowing him/her post his/her own profile and wait for responses without a possibility to view profiles of other members or be involved in other services promoted and proposed by Friend Finder adult community. To get an access to all these tempting facilities a user has to pay a monthly fee to upgrade his/her account and get the so-called Gold membership – the privileged status allowing communicating with other users using more private means like anonymous e-mal messaging service, watching of users’ video appeals and introductions, being involved into live webcam chats and blogging with potential sex partners and signing up for an online webzine supported and spreading by AFF and many other opportunities. Being a Gold Membership account owner you can easily find a potential sex partner among millions of registered users who have the same intensions as you do.
Nevertheless, in spite of all advantages and dating opportunities this resource as any other similar to it community was accused in numerous scam attempts and lots of users complained about being fooled around. These complaints can be divided into the following common groups:
- you are no one at this dating service if you don’t have a Silver or a Gold paid membership account, because you can only edit your profile and wait for a possible response;
- many male users complained that this community is a hidden haunt for female prostitutes who just search for new clients in such way and are paid by AFF for allocation of their private and intimate photos attracting new users to this resource;
- some profiles contain phishing links, spyware and malware along with fake e-mails placed for the purpose of advertising some doubtful and pornographic sites;
- and at last many male members accuse this resource in publishing fake profiles with very attractive female photos to draw attention of males but in fact these photos hid totally different women.
We can’t say all these accusations are well-grounded, because this dating community is very popular and has plenty of supporters all around the world.