My name is Markus and I created POF.com to help people like you find someone! We are now the world’s largest dating site with over 3 million people using POF every single day. Over the years I've watched millions of people find someone special. Here is how you can get the best out of POF.
1. Use Ultra Match. You are the most likely to date someone who shows up in the first 50 spots on this list. When it comes to online dating, knowing who you are going to date is the easy part for us. The problem for us is human psychology. If we show you the 5 people you are most likely to date within 5 minutes of signup, you will say "These matches are awesome where are the next ones"? People want to feel like they eliminated a lot of potential matches and worked hard to find the person they end up with. No one wants to come to a dating site and start dating the first person they messaged.
2. Use Top Prospects. Top prospects is a ranking of all people you have had contact with for the first time in the last 30 days sorted by how compatible they are with you. It's basically Ultra Match applied to the list of people you have communicated with. For 17% of users who left the site in a relationship, the person at the top of the list was the person they end up dating. It goes up to 50% if we look at the top 10 people in this list. This is amazingly accurate and the numbers I've quoted assume that they talked to at least 100 people.
3. Upgrade your account. When it comes to dating things like height, age and looks matter. These are things that make you stand out and be more desirable when you are one of a million options. When you are upgraded you stand out more, your messages stand out more and as a result you're way more likely to find a relationship on the site and way more likely to have your messages replied to. Again it's human psychology but we find that users who are upgraded are just taken a lot more seriously and have way more success on the site. If you want to find someone then be one of those users and upgrade your account today if you haven't done so already.