to tell my friend that most people in dating sites are looking for sex?

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She's been having a bad luck on POF and she asked for my honest opinion.

Now she's saying she disagrees with my opinion but opts to focus on the positive.

I'm not being negative, I thought I was being realistic. I did not say that there's noone in dating sites who want more than sex, it's just most of them want sex.

Generally speaking the paid for site have a better chance of being populated with people actually looking for romance, Anyway, its not exactly hard to weed out the time wasters and the 'one night stand' merchants. The latter are certainly less likely to invest time in the 'getting to know each other' stages of a relationship if they are just after a quickie. Pretty much everyone I know who has entered into a serious relationship during the last 10 years did so via a dating site.

I met DP on POF and we have been together 3 years, getting married in August! Agree with the above that if you chat to people for a while before meeting up the guys just after sex get bored!

I was on there for about 6 months, made a rule of being open minded so replied to anyone that messaged me. Blocked the ones that just wanted to send dick pics, made a lot of friends and then met DP. I went on a lot of dates, but always opted for coffee at 10am rather than a drink/meal which immediately sifts out people looking to get you drunk and persuade you into bed.

There's no harm in being optomistic, I hope your friend does manage to meet someone. There are a lot of frogs out there but people have met decent guys on POF as demonstrated by this thread!

Yes my friend has discovered that, after a while of chatting, they get bored, and she's confused why they just flaky. I told her why. Personally I woukd never go on those sites to meet a life partner.

I met my DP on tinder. Over two years down the line we are still together and I am pregnant. Not EVERYONE on dating sites is looking for sex and we’re definitely not the only serious couple to have met on there. But yes, obviously a large portion are after a quick hook-up. Sad but true.