SUBMITTED: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
POSTED: Thursday, July 26, 2007
As a member of AFF for a year, I have met a handful of great men. The rest of the men might have been nice, but were not my type or did not turn out to be who or what they appeared in person. I started with a standard membership that is free, somedays I had over 100 emails. Of those emails, some dont have anything interesting to say, some are rude and never going to get a reply, and alot fall into the catagory of just never going to work out. It gets very old having a pen pal, if you reply to most men they bombard you numerous emails and will try and say anything so you pay attention to them.
Having that free memebership meant I had limited access to emailing, veiwing, and initiating contact so I would just accept network invites from everyone so I could contact them via the friends network. However someone who knew me found my profile on this site, and wreaked havoc on my personal and professional life by printing out my profile and pictures. I have joined as a gold member under a new name, I dont reply to emails for the most part, I initiate any contact with people who interest me first. Then the men usually know right away I am for real, and my profile more then hints I am a no nonsense, respectable lady who will not reply and waste my time or yours unless I can see us having a connection.
You bought into the site and have privelages as a paying member, however you still have to sell yourself by your pictures and what you write. If you dont look great and sound great chances are you dont know how to attract the opposite sex. I know people havent always been great face to face, but I will take that chance because I can go out on a weekend and never meet 1 person that interests me locally. The game is still the same, you have to attract the opposite sex and then score. You cant just join a website, put a picture and write how you want sex and no drama, and then expect to get what you paid for. If you can log on and send emails and read them then AFF pretty much delivered the service the advertised, I was having fun before getting a gold membership. At least 5 females I confided in about what I was doing on AFF have also joined.