Adult Friend Finder (AFF) Review

Perhaps the biggest advantage that Adult Friend Finder has is that it is the largest adult dating site on the Internet today. In a single month it gets more than 3 million searches, and the site is estimated to have as many as 20 million members.

Pros

Since dating is largely a numbers game, this means that those who use this site will have access to a large number of potential matches, greatly increasing their chances of successfully finding a date. In addition to this, the site has become so large that it is now being featured in other regions, which includes ItalianFriendFinder and GermanFriendFinder.

The website offers three levels of membership, and these are Free, Silver, and Gold. While you can join the site for free, you will be blocked from accessing many of the site's advanced features until you upgrade to either a gold or silver membership. Having a paid membership is definitely worth it when compared to a free account, since you get access to a much larger selection of services. Some of these services and features include access to explicit photos, numerous public or private rooms, and email as well as instant messaging. When it comes to features, AFF is one of the most cutting edge sites on the web today, and it has served as an example to many other online dating communities, which have followed in its footsteps.

Having a Silver or Gold membership will also allow you to view the "real" webcams of members who are exhibitionists, and the site even includes an erotic magazine. An additional thing that I find highly impressive about Adult Friend Finder is that they include quizzes and courses which allow you to increase your sexual knowledge and skill. This portion of the site is referred to as being the Sex Academy. Users are also given the option of activating or deactivating their profiles, which allows you to be visible or invisible to the other members. The site can also be viewed in a variety of different languages, which includes Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, English, and Chinese.

An additional thing that many people like about Adult Friend Finder is the ability to filter their searches. While most online dating sites offer this to some degree, Adult Friend Finder is highly detailed. For example, if you're a female searching for males, you can filter you search based on penis length, width, and whether or not it is circumcised. If you're a male, you can search for women based on their breast band or cup size. When you consider the number of features and members that this site has, it is easy to see why so many people have chose to use it. While you may want to start off with a free membership in order to get a feel for the site, you won't be able to truly enjoy all the features this site has to offer until you get either a Silver or Gold membership.

Cons

Adult Friend Finder has one of the most prominent advertising programs on the web. AFF ads typically show photos of unusually attractive women that supposedly live in local areas close to the web users. To get this affect Adult Friend Finder uses what is called IP-localisation software. Some have suspected that most or perhaps all of the women shown on these ads are fake, as most of them look like models who are simply too good to be true. If this is the case, this would mean that AFF is involved in a form of false advertising, because they show ads of women living in regions who don't actually live there.

Another con that has been found with Adult Friend Finder is that many of the advertisements feature either well known models or pornstars, which like their IP-localisation software, is a form of false advertising, since many of these ladies aren't actually members on the site. There has also been some question as to the male/female ratio that Adult Friend Finder uses. It has been said that the company rarely takes the time to purge their own database. A number of studies conducted by velocitypress.com have indicated that the female/male ratio for AFF is 10 males to one female, and if this is true, this means that even with the large number of members, most of them are men, meaning that men looking for women may have a tough time.

There have also been some people who have accused Adult Friend Finder of adding spyware to the computers of their users. Some have complained that this spyware is used to collect specific information on the user, information which can then be used by AFF, often without the knowledge or consent of the user. In addition to this, information collected through cookies or spyware can also be sold to other marketing companies. While AFF would naturally defend itself by saying that these accusations are simply made by competitors who are jealous of their success, the truth of the matter is that these complaints have come from a number of different sources, and include those who have been members of the site.

It is also said that scam advertisers also use fake profiles on AFF in order to lure unsuspecting visitors to sites which aren't related to AFF, and they may also fish for email addresses. Another problem with Adult Friend Finder is that many of the member post fake pictures of themselves in order to get lots of responses from users. There have also been complaints that "plants" are placed in the chatrooms, who talks with users for a long period of time in an attempt to get them to sign up with a paid membership. Despite this, one thing that I should emphasize is that many of the problems and complaints which have been made against Adult Friend Finder are similar to the complaints that have been made against other online dating communities.

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