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Our Favorite Dating Sites |
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Top Dating Categories |
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Mega Friends: Full Review |
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About Mega Friends |
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Year Started
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1999
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Location
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Canada
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Languages
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English
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Short Description
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is a home-grown website created by a husband-and-wife team. It's been around for four years now, and has a decent sized database of men and women from around the world. aims to connect people for all kinds of relationships, not just romantic ones. When setting up a profile, people can opt to look for men, women, and couples for friendship, dating, a secret affair, or marriage. While the site design leaves a little to be desired, itself is great, offering a variety of fun free features like sending virtual gifts and playing online games.
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Number of Members
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350,000
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Overall Rating
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A welcome change from the meat market sites that lack personality. has heart, and that counts for something.
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Mega Friends Categories & Features |
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Lifestyles
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Relationships
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Religions
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Ethnicities
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Finding Your Match
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Automated Matching
Live Matchmaker
Search by location
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Contacting Members
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Mega Friends Dating Service Review |
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The Company
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is run by a husband and wife team who grew tired of online communities that felt generic and alienating. After relocating to a new city and realizing they wanted to make new friends, site creators Joe and Marg also realized they had a great idea on their hands. As they say on , "A move to a new city made us quickly realize that the virtual world is really just a reflection of the real world. When one leaves their home base of friends and loved ones, cultivating new correspondence can be very time consuming and arduous at best. Our lifestyles didn't lend itself to striking up friendships via the bar scene nor did our home-based business help in meeting new friends at work. We turned to the web but our dilemma was further compounded by the fact that all of the relation type sites we found were dating focused only. (We were happily married for 25 years and seeking others to share ideas, an occasional game of golf, a dinner party or simply a pen pal.)"
It was then that they decided to create in hopes of creating an online space where they could help others in their search for finding that special someone or just new friends.
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Site Navigation
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While the design is not terribly attractive, is easy to navigate with consistent top and left navigational elements.
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Site Response Speed
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Fast
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Sign-Up Process
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Quick and easy sign up with a basic questionnaire and small essay portion. accepts most major credit cards, money orders, cashier checks and bank drafts, as well as services like PayPal, which made for lots of great payment options.
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Breadth of Services
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Impressive selection of site features including member-generated articles and polls, tips and advice, fun games, interesting chat rooms and discussion forums. Overall, an eclectic mix of content for a home-grown, non-corporate effort.
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User Base
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's membership base is broad, mainly middle class. Professionals and non-professionals. Browse the Favourites section to find photos of beautiful women and men who have been bookmarked as "Friend" or "Hot" by the most members.
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User Experience
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Overall, is fun, engaging, and welcoming. Chat and message boards are easy to figure out. Sending virtual gifts is fun. Impressive response time from ' site managers via email.
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Customer Service
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Overall, is fun, engaging, and welcoming. Chat and message boards are easy to figure out. Sending virtual gifts is fun. Impressive response time from managers via email.
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Customer Service Hours
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Email via the website
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Registration Options
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Site randomly features member profiles with photos on the homepage every three hours
Automatic renewal
Virtual gift shop
Free discussion forums
Access to member-submitted articles
Participate in polls
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Additional Services
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Long Description
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is an all-inclusive online dating site that offers a variety of free and fun services. It's a destination for both personals and people connections. Whether you are looking for friends, adult fun, or love, just might have that certain someone as a member! Both professionals and blue collar workers are members, as well as people from around the world, in countries including Australia, the Philippines, and Germany to name just a few.
offers adult dating with tons of extras
Some adult dating web sites only provide minimal service - a small database of personal ads and expensive email upgrades. , however, is an adult singles website that provides men and women with not only a tremendous database of potential users, but also a variety of means to contact them. From webcams, chat rooms, to live talk to anonymous email and instant messaging, the options at are endless.
Register and have send you matches
Registering on is quick and easy. Once you set up a profile, it's easy to start browsing and contacting people. As soon as a profile is entered into the system, people will start hitting it, ensuring lots of great results. Within 24 hours of joining, contacts members via email with a list of possible matches. It's then up to the individual to move forward with their match.
Pay to chat on and get good placement for your personal ad
members can search for matches by geographical location as well as perform a more detailed search by physical characteristics, interests, personal habits, etc. Gold Membership gives people access to chat, email messaging, unlimited contacts, and an advertising-free environment. Paying member profiles appear above basic members in search results.
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Mega Friends Pros & Cons |
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Pros
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Lots of fun free features
A comfortable, welcoming atmosphere
Anything goes
Global membership base
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Cons
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Unattractive (cheesy) site design
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Mega Friends Plans Offered |
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Pricing
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1 month for $19.95
3 months for $39.95
6 months for $69.95
12 months for $119.95
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Site Freebies
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Set up a profile
Upload unlimited photos
Send and receive email, however free members cannot read and reply to other free member's personalized messages. It's suggested that free members use the canned messages from a drop-down list within the email message. Free members may read and reply to email from paying members.
Send and receive virtual gifts
Participate in message forums
Participate in Live Chat and ChatSee Live Video for 10 minutes per day
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