While there is no question some people are certainly legit and can find a mate, match.com is not all that it is cracked up to be. One, if you decide to cancel your membership they will often keep charging you for months. It might take a real battle to stop them from taking your money. Two, some of the people on the site are plants or the ads are fake. Many have pictures that look like models when in fact they are just there to draw interest. Some of them have been there for years. Third, you often will get emails/interest from people who are running an out of this country scam. They will contact you with fake letters in the hopes you will send them money. Fourth match does not provide the privacy they should. For example, match advertises on a cyberbullying site called Topix. The Topix site stays in hot water with attorney generals and the media for the horrible content of the site. Did you know that match allows your profile to be seen on the Topix site without your permission. That is ethically wrong and possibly even illegal but they do nothing about it. How would you like your profile seen on a site where crimes have been committed and some of the content has led others to suicide?