Date of Review:

03/08/2004

Web Site:

FRIENDFINDER.COM - Signup FREE!

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Member Profiles Searching
Matchmaking Testing
Advice Audience
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Overall          
93
         
Average          
87
         

Features:

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Strengths:

FriendFinder is powered by the FriendFinder network of over 16 Sites, and over 20 million registered members. Their network provides an array of services from romance and dating sites to alternative adult sites. They have something for everyone. FriendFinder.com has a large membership over 3 million strong. You will have no trouble finding other members in your area, or across the globe. Whether you want to find friends in your area, pen pals, or a serious relationship, FriendFinder can help. In addition, they have a very strong portfolio of services.

Free Services
FriendFinder offers more free services than most dating sites. They offer free chat room access, free instant messages to members on-line, as well as most of the standard free services offered by all dating sites.

Interest Group (Forums)
They have a very active interest group community. You can submit questions and express your thoughts in an arena with others who have the same interests. In addition, you can send the relationship advice questions, which they post for others to answer.

Advice
They provide an on-line magizine that offers advice, tips, poems, relationship tests, as well as many other interesting articles. All this advice they provide to Standard members for free.

Unique Features
Members can post their pictures for other members to rate from 1-10. Members can also participate and see results of on-line polls. In addition, they have a point service similar to airlines. When members use certain features on the site or refer new members, they receive points. You can use points to extend your premium membership, buy private chat rooms, have your profile highlighted in the search results, and get other free services.

Matchmaking Services
They provide a Cupid service that constantly scans new profiles for members that match your criteria. The service notifies you of matches via a weekly email.

Notes:

At standard membership (non-paying) you have a limit to the number of full profiles you can view in their romance network. However, you can view the profiles of people in the friend network. The standard membership also limits your capability to search for specific types of members. These limitation make it difficult to use the free membership to get an idea of the members that interest you. However, due to the size of the Friendfinder network, you will not have trouble finding people that interest you.