We’ve all been there haven’t we, at some desperate time or another we’ve looked for an “on-line miracle” in finding ourselves a partner, yes I raise my hand on that one.

I don’t know why I get drawn back to the site www.plentyoffish.com every “once in a blue moon” to try my luck again for the fun of it. Mostly a waste of my precious time though sometimes a “healthy distraction”.

Anyway, so I was browsing the forums and came to the Testimonials category and thought I’d leave my criticism of POF and on-line dating in general.

Here’s a carbon copy of my forum post:

In my experience of POF, a few things I’ve found in my few years of on-and-off usage:
* A “serious relationship” doesn’t seem to happen unless both are serious and mature in the first place;
* A lot of wasted talent and potential dates get overlooked daily, monthly, yearly because of the “crap” that came before and clogged up “the system” with disgrace and growing prejudices;
* The nicest women I’ve got chatting and onto the phone with have tended to be so “busy” that we never get around to meeting. In other words our “chemistry” can feel so virtual that we don’t have enough REAL chemistry to make time for each other’s potential;
* Women who get nothing but “crap” in their inbox end up overlooking any “gold” that actually found its way in their from a minority of potential talent;
* “the system” gets a little too rigid for me like getting “blown off” just for being two years older than required despite a well written letter of interest;
* too much fun and not enough “serious fun” like actually getting results in a safe and flirty way;
* and my favourite: when will women ever begin to write letters to men more in a virtual world of free play? (Russian women are world-famous for their romantic letter writing to “hook” a guy in!)

And that’s its for now, share with me your thoughts and any other feedback for POF.

This post eventually got removed for unknown reasons. Looks like a) the on-line dating fanatics don’t wish to get criticized and b) have no respect for free-speech in a free-society.

When “the people” start censoring “the people” I get concerned that they seem to end up doing the government’s “dirty work” without even realizing. What sad times we truly live in when one can’t say what they like without some form of disclaimer.

Lastly it also represents to me another form of “political correctness” and then I think to myself: “who ever got truly wealthy and prosperous by conforming to what’s right all-the-time?”. Nobody, that’s how wars begin whether intellectual or thermonuclear even.