"Plenty of Fish" Online Dating Site Review

A Review of One of the Best Online Dating Sites

I had a problem, and that problem was this: I was a single girl on a college campus where girls outnumber guys 7 to 3. Not a pretty picture at all. My television is constantly spouting ads for eHarmony, Match.com, and a zillion other such sites, so I decided to try the online dating scene. However, I'm a poor college kid. I did not want to pay to see if this was something I even liked, so I looked for a free site. My search came back with a ton of results, but as I waded through them, it because increasingly clear that most of these sites were free to join but charged if you wanted to do much of anything. However, among all the "free" sites, I did stumble across one totally free site - Plenty of Fish.

Plenty of Fish is, as I just said, totally free. The owner supports the site by selling ad space on it. It has no employees and is run out of an apartment, yet it is still one of the best sites out there. First of all, it is fairly simple to make your profile. It asks you to fill in some information about your body type, gender, sexual preference and religion and then allows you to list your interests, write your own introduction, and describe what you'd like to do on a first date. You can upload a picture of yourself (or several) if you want, but it doesn't require you to have one.

Once you've made a profile and gotten on the site, you will discover that there are a ton of great resources. You can either search for matches yourself or you can look at the people Plenty of Fish feels you're most compatible with. In fact, you can have a list of who you're supposedly compatible with emailed to you if you want. If you decide to search for your match on your own, the advanced search allows you to narrow down your criteria to a degree that I have not seen on any other dating site, free or otherwise. It even shows you when the person last visited the site. The search will also only show you people who might be interested in you. For example, I, as a heterosexual woman, will never have a homosexual man show up in any of my searches. The site won't allow it.