FriendFinder photo personals offers singles a free photo personals plan.

FriendFinder's site is loaded with great features, including blogs, chat rooms and a free relationship workshop.

Quick Profile

Begun: 1996
Base: Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.
Membership: Over 3.5 million
For: Singles over 18 with straight or same sex preferences.
Seeking: Penpals, Activity Partners, Friendship, Casual Dating, Long Term Relationships, and Marriage.
Reach: Worldwide

The Plans and Their Prices

There are 3 Membership Plans.
The first plan is free of charge.

Friendfinder's Free Membership Plan

Free Plan Members can:

  • Post their profile
  • Upload and change your photo for others to see
  • View other members' photos
  • Search for members by gender,age and location
  • View Profiles of other members [limited]
  • Receive Cupid email notification of new member matches; up to 10.
  • Have your 'Handle' on the Members Online List
  • Receive Technical Support by email [within 2 days]
  • Place favorite members on your own personal Hot List [200 maximum]
  • Send emails to other members [limited]
  • Upload your voice greetings and send your voice messages to other members
  • Create and view Personality Test results
  • Use active chat rooms
  • Talk to people using the Instant Message system
  • View emails for 30 days

    • Friendfinder also offers two upgrade subscription plans; their Silver Membership; which is basic, and their Premium Gold Membership Plan.

    Their Silver Membership Plan

    Their Silver Plan is currently priced at:
    $22.94 per month
    But very substantial savings can be realized by choosing either their quarterly rate:
    $39.94/3 mo.
    or their annual rate:
    $99.94/12 mo.

    Silver Membership plan users can also:

  • Search the database using their standard form
  • Receive Cupid email notification of new member matches; up to 20.
  • Receive Technical Support by email [within 24 hours]
  • Place favorite members on your own personal Hot List [500 maximum]
  • View Profiles of other members [unlimited]
  • Send emails to other members [unlimited]
  • View emails for 60 days
  • View other members' videos
  • Search by distance from your location, and save your search settings
  • View past member polls and their results
  • Receive telephone technical support
  • Receive faster profile and photo reviews
  • Search the database by other members' 'Handles'

    • Their Gold Membership Plan

    Their Gold Plan is currently priced at:
    $34.94 per month
    Again, substantial savings can be realized by choosing either their quarterly rate:
    $59.94/3 mo.
    or their annual rate:
    $139.94/12 mo.

    Gold Membership Plan users can also:

  • Receive faster profile and photo reviews
  • Top each list of members; which means your photo/profile will be viewed 5 times more often than non-Gold membership card holders.
  • 'Super-Search' for members with keywords, using an exclusive Priority' form.
  • Get ICQ, AIM, YIM and MSN ID's of members in your network
  • Receive access to extra large photos

    • Special Features

    Search Options


    Quick Search: Just enter your zip code, the gender you're seeking and [if you wish]age desired, to receive immediate results.
    Regional Search: By state, by province, city or by country.
    Advanced Search: By characteristics: physical appearance, personal habits, education, marital status, religion, and language.

    Chat Rooms:

    You can pick a room by region of the world or topic of interest.
    They offer a laid back atmosphere with a great variety of mood enhancing choices:

    Additionally, Gold Membership entitles you, for a small fee, to the option of having your own private chat room.
    At the price of :
    $9.90/1 mo.
    $19.90/3 mo.
    $33.90/6 mo.
    $54.90/12 mo.

    Each offers a discounted renewal rate as well.

    Blogs: You can post a personal photo, add clip art, use emoticons and add new entries as often as you like.

    'My Magazine': This is a member creation. All the columns from love advice tostories are from the lives of the very interesting subscribers!

    In addition, FriendFinder offers a Free Online, Customized, Relationship Workshop.

    In Our Opinion

    We like the fun, informal, but respectful atmosphere, and the photo/profile matches are presented in a simple pleasant way.

    FriendFinder's selection of features plus its reasonable range of plan prices, places it on our 'A' list of Highly Recommends.





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