Sonia Varaschin murder/fabrication.

******  Update*****    Curtis Rush  from the Toronto Star just posted another bullshit theory suggesting that someone may have hacked her deleted POF account and than killed her.   This is the same ridiculous theory the police came to us with after an “anonymous tip”.   This reporter is just making shit up and printing it,  even the slightest bit of investigative reporting have shown how BS both these stories are.     Plentyoffish deletes all emails after 30 days  even if you are an active user.     We don’t collect phone numbers, paypal accounts and never have,  we also don’t collect realnames or addresses unless its for paying users.   For some reason Curtis Rush is trying to tie Plentyoffish’s Name to this murder in any way possible.

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This article  by the Toronto Star one of Canada’s largest newspapers  is a complete fabrication.

1.  She wasn’t a user of Plentyoffish in 2010 but had been years ago.     Most older canadian singles are a member of Plentyoffish at some point in their life.

2.  We have the police briefing  they definitely didn’t say any of the stuff  Toronto star says they did.

3.  We have never had a case of a man murdering a women on plentyoffish that i know of.

4.  We talked to the police last YEAR and told them everything they wanted to know and we thought that was the end of it as she wasn’t even on the site.

This entire week we’ve been bombarded by requests from the media trying to write stories about online dating being unsafe.     The simple fact is that Online Dating is the safest possible way you can meet people.    Over 30 million people have used plentyoffish and there hasn’t been a single case of a man killing a women as a result of meeting on plentyoffish.   No other form of meeting people even comes remotely close to that level of safety.

Yay finally passed 6 million logins/day

Finally passed 6 million logins in one day.     Sunday is always peak traffic day for us. Here is a chart of our logins on sundays  going back over 4 years.    Hard to believe after 8 years Plentyoffish still has non stop growth with no signs of slowing down any time soon.

New Laws Targetting Facebook, Social Networks and Dating sites.

Check out this new proposed law from New York.     If you are a company that is either directly or indirectly in the business of dating,  ie  letting strangers in New York talk to other Strangers in New York  you are now supposed to do a brackground check  or put up big warning text if someone from New York Registered and you haven’t done a background check on them.

The proposed law is so broad that any site allowing you to meet strangers falls under the definition.

” (B) “internet dating service” means a person or entity directly or indirectly in the business, for profit, of offering, promoting or providing access to dating, relationship, compatibility, matrimonial or social referral services principally on or through the internet.”

Sites like facebook actually generate more relationships and marriages than the entire dating industry combined,  at least according to the large studies we’ve conducted.   Facebook also has many dating apps on their platform that allows strangers to meet and date.   Social networks like Tagged.com link to dating sites(zoosk) directly from their main menu.   It would be extremely hard for Facebook and tagged to argue they are not “indirectly in the business of dating”.

Unfortunately this isn’t unique to New York  as several other states are trying to pass similar laws or they have already been passed.  This similar law passed in Texas already forces Facebook to provide warnings to users on signup…. If facebook doesn’t put up a warning than it is on the hook for $750 per user registered in new york.   Lets say  Faceook has 10 million people from New York that is a fine of  $7.50 BILLION dollars.