Complaint Review: FriendFinder Networks (DBA ALT.com)

ALT.com -- ALTernative Lifestyle, BDSM, Fetish & Kink Personals I think the 'key' word is, "Personals" -- NOT!!! I have been a Member for 13+ years now and it has severely decayed as a 'personals' Website for the last 3 - 5 years. Thousands of fake profiles. In the first day alone, I had over a dozen 'messages' .... mostly from Ghana and Nigeria. After only a few hours of communication with a 'woman' on Instant Messenger, she was asking me for airtime for her cell phone. There may be real people hoping to meet other real people, but those Profiles are so few and far between it's not worth your time or money. No one is within a commutable distance from you.

ALT.com has become nothing more but a safe haven for fakes/flakes/frauds, liars, posers, scammers and wannabes from around the world whom have read the, "50 Shades Of Grey", series and now think they're either Dom/me, Master, slave or submissive just living out their fantasies via Chat Rooms and/or Interest Groups -- there may be .005% of the Member/ship being 'real' -- but, even that percent might be too high. What else is there to say about an online adult personals Website that allows its Members to change/edit/update their Date Of Birth (a legal, never-changing fact) whenever they get a whim to appear younger??? Due to this DOB change/edit/update feature/function, I have stumbled upon 13 Profiles that according to their DOB and Date Of Membership, they were 11-years-old to 17-years-old when they joined ALT.com!!! Seriously .... 11-years-old when they joined ALT.com!!! I don't think I need to say anymore, but I'll go ahead and list the 'Pros' & 'Cons' below ....

Pros: ⦁ Thousands of Profiles with pictures of well-known celebrities and sexy pictures of well-known porn stars -- mostly claiming to live in Canada, Texas and United Kingdom (as a matter-of-fact, just last week I saw Angelina Jolie -- according to her Profile she's single, submissive and living in Austin, Texas) ⦁ Change your Date Of Birth (for free) easier than changing your panties to make yourself appear younger at any time and further dupe other Members ⦁ Chat for free with thousands of fakes/flakes/frauds, liars, posers, scammers and wannabes from around the world via live Instant Messenger (when it's working) ⦁ Create an Interest Group -- then, create multiple Profiles and join your very own Interest Group to make it look more popular ⦁ View webcam shows for your masturbatory pleasures ⦁ CyberSex your brains out in any Chat Room ⦁ Advice Line, BLOG and Magazine Cons: ⦁ Infested with thousands of fakes/flakes/frauds, liars, posers, scammers and wannabes ⦁ Fee charged to change your UserName or Gender, but you can change your Date Of Birth (a legal, never-changing fact) for FREE -- easier than changing your panties to make yourself appear younger at any time and further dupe other Members ⦁ Censorship -- the word 'rape' is a banned topic in any BLOG and Post, automatically declined when clicking-on the POST YOUR REPLY button; yet there are 433 active Interest Groups containing the word 'rape' in their title and hundreds of Members with the word 'rape' in their UserName. But, it's okay to make Posts/Polls regarding murder involving killing your daughter, girlfriend or spouse

⦁ Customer Service is a joke -- I believe it's outsourced to India as the lack of communication is appalling and amounts to NOT understanding written English ⦁ Abuse Team, Legal Department and Site Support lies to you ⦁ Thousands of 'Date Bait' Profiles ⦁ Hundreds of thousands of dead/unused Profiles. Just the other day I viewed a Profile that stated, 'Last Visit: March 17, 1999' -- yet, when I visited the Interest Groups that they belonged to, it kept the number of Members 'active' (I also noticed a lot of the same Members belonged to the same Interest Groups). After doing a Reverse Image Search of the Profile picture/s via Google and/or TinEye, the majority of the Members/Profiles were fake Some warning signs to watch out for: 01. Incomplete, inconsistent and unusual things in their Profiles; and, all info is written in lower case letters including their name 02. Grammar, punctuation and spelling isn't correct (even though they claim to have a Master's degree) 03. They don't carry the conversation like somebody would if they were truly interested in you 04. They immediately want to move the conversation to an off-site Instant Messenger 05. They use a lot of phrases like 'my dear', 'my love' or 'the love of my life' 06. They are vague or fuzzy when you ask them specific questions 07. Only one picture shown and it's a very attractive woman Use common sense. The 'lovely lady' you're speaking to is likely some dude sitting in an Internet café. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is!!! Tip For Users: Do NOT get involved with any Member there until you do a Google and/or TinEye Reverse Image Search of their Profile picture. If no Profile picture is available, then request webcam verification from the Member