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'''Adult Friend Finder''' (AFF) is a commercial [[website]] that claims to be the world's largest sex and [[swinger]] community online. The site is consistently ranked between the 40th and 60th most visited website on the internet,<sup>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&compare_sites=&y=t&q=&size=medium&range=6m&url=adultfriendfinder.com]</sup> and claims to have over 20 million members.<sup>[http://www.startupjournal.com/ideas/hitechonline/20060306-kesmodel.html]</sup> The AFF website allows adults to meet friends and/or sex partners, and while free to join, members must purchase a higher membership level |
'''Adult Friend Finder''' (AFF) is a commercial [[website]] that claims to be the world's largest sex and [[swinger]] community online. The site is consistently ranked between the 40th and 60th most visited website on the internet,<sup>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&compare_sites=&y=t&q=&size=medium&range=6m&url=adultfriendfinder.com]</sup> and claims to have over 20 million members.<sup>[http://www.startupjournal.com/ideas/hitechonline/20060306-kesmodel.html]</sup> The AFF website allows adults to meet friends and/or sex partners, and while free to join, members must purchase a higher membership level in order to contact others. |
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Adult Friend Finder is the largest and most known site in adult dating industry. |
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A quick calculation shows that approximately 4-5% of the population in most U.S. states has a profile on Adult Friend Finder. About half of these profiles are for Men seeking Women. This assumes that the profiles are not duplicate, fraudulent, inactive,or fronts for commercial sites. |
A quick calculation shows that approximately 4-5% of the population in most U.S. states has a profile on Adult Friend Finder. About half of these profiles are for Men seeking Women. This assumes that the profiles are not duplicate, fraudulent, inactive,or fronts for commercial sites. |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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* [[Cams.com]] |
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* [[FriendFinder]] |
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* [[Sexual revolution]] |
* [[Sexual revolution]] |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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* [http://www. |
* [http://www.adultfriendfinder.com AdultFriendFinder.com] Official website.<!-- the link above originally had a commission pay per click revenue tag attached so whomever placed it was getting kickbacks from this article! --> |
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[[Category:Erotica websites]] |
[[Category:Erotica websites]] |
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Revision as of 15:16, 1 July 2006
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Adult Friend Finder (AFF) is a commercial website that claims to be the world's largest sex and swinger community online. The site is consistently ranked between the 40th and 60th most visited website on the internet,[1] and claims to have over 20 million members.[2] The AFF website allows adults to meet friends and/or sex partners, and while free to join, members must purchase a higher membership level in order to contact others.
A quick calculation shows that approximately 4-5% of the population in most U.S. states has a profile on Adult Friend Finder. About half of these profiles are for Men seeking Women. This assumes that the profiles are not duplicate, fraudulent, inactive,or fronts for commercial sites.
The website offers services that allow users to send anonymous email, chat or use a webcam with other members, and contribute to an online magazine or blog (these must be purchased).
Criticism
AFF has been frequently criticized as a popular target for phishing attempts and other online scams. Such schemes work by creating fake profiles with attractive female photos, and then using these accounts to attract visitors to pornography websites or to initiate scams such as the Advance fee fraud (Nigerian scam).
AFF, along with most major dating sites, employ an 'abuse team' as an extension of it's customer service team, to deal with spammers, scammers, the obscene and the obnoxious.
It has been claimed that AFF consistently uses controversial advertising methods such as spam and spyware.
The most recent criticism to be experienced by the adult meeting website has to do with the use of "decoys". There are several claims that the people in the chat rooms are not genuine people, that they are "plants" or "decoys", the main goal is to start a continuous conversation with their mark. These marks are usually men or women who have not purchased complete memberships and in doing so are not able to access the full features of the website. The goal of the decoy is to convince these marks to purchase the full membership. Which would thus allow the mark full access to all of the sites features, such as the most important, email. Which is necessary to continue contact with the decoy who they believe to be an actual AFF member. The benefit to AFF, more pricey memberships are purchased and members remain on the site far longer than those with limited memberships.
There is even a criticism by paying members. Gold members are routinely assaulted with fake communications, requesting e-mail communications and asking to pay for an account on another website. Gold members have complained that 4 out of 5 communications are totally false.
See also
External links
- AdultFriendFinder.com Official website.