Females have an option to see whos most likely interested.. well what good is that to the average female who WONT message a guy first. Give that option to the men ffs!! so we can stop wasting money on female scam artists, and women who are currently with a guy ( alot are ) and just out entertaining her ego without ever wanting anything else. 49% fine their boyfriend on pof.. get it?? cause 51% of the others are already in a relationship, or married. Sure sure.. as the saying goes women dont cheat.. ONLINE WOMEN.. do. Anyhow give this otpion to the guys.. so we know WHOS going to reply instead of being replied to like garbage from some engaged loser whos just on it for fun with friends.

thanks.

It’s just ratios. Divide 49% by 3 and 5. Assuming women are only getting one BF each. Not always the case I guess that’s what s/he meant.

“But here’s the thing – despite a high male:female ratio, it’s not difficult to get dates from IF you have the ability and willingness to stand out from the rest of the men on the site. Who by the way, are mostly pathetic in their attempts to get dates of of POF.”

I do OK, but I disagree with the quote above, in general. I bring a lot to the table, but I see a lot of decent guys getting nowhere there … mostly based on looks/height/money. But yeah. a quite a few guys have a bad approach. I tried to help out a few buddies with profiles/email. It was pretty hard to get past average looks/height.

This is you’re blog, so I’m not about to rip apart the value/use of free dating sites. It is what it is. Like it, don’t like it, doesn’t matter.

But i will say this. If you’re a women on a free dating site waiting for the proverbial good guy with edge to line up in your email queue, then it ain’t going to happen. Ya gotta go get him. That’s what these guys are used to, that’s what they stick with. If they can’t translate that in the profiles, tough luck for them.

The 49% probably comes from database records in the delete account function which requests reason for leaving, one of which is found somebody. That doesn’t mean found a boyfriend, just means met somebody, deleting account to see how it goes. Quite a few I would imagine lasts the typically 3 month honeymoon period, same as real life. So looking at it this way, 49% isn’t impressive, it just misinformation sales tactics. One would hope given the male:female ratio that at least 70% of woman at least get a 3 month boyfriend.

I don’t have anything against POF. It’s just a potential dating site.

The ratio of single men without kids to single women without kids on POF is probably closer to 8-10:1. Endpoints super good looking and below average have different ratios I’d imagine. But average and slightly above is pretty competitive. I think this is why the first poster questioned the level of effort.

Where are you getting the 10-18% from? Is this just a guess or do you have some data that would suggest this, which I’d be curious to see. Though I would agree that the percentage is likely pretty low.

But here’s the thing – despite a high male:female ratio, it’s not difficult to get dates from IF you have the ability and willingness to stand out from the rest of the men on the site. Who by the way, are mostly pathetic in their attempts to get dates of of POF.

Yeah, I don’t know how they getthat number either. It’s certainly not reliable. However …

The ratio of men:women on POF varies from 3-5:1. Guessing is not required.

The percentage of men finding a “gf” on the site is between 10-18%.

Think about it. How much effort will men put into odds that low?