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Overview

CafeMom has a rating of 2.2 stars from 56 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about CafeMom most frequently mention new members, and pop ups problems. CafeMom ranks 100th among Parenting sites.

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Positive highlights

  • The biggest one is Mom Confessions, but there are many.

Critical highlights

  • I got taunted and inboxed all the time by 2 members on this site.
  • You are able to say anything you like without using your screen name.
How would you rate CafeMom?
Top Positive Review

“Seriously It's Not all Bad”

Silver S.
4/5/16

I have been with Cafemom since almost the start and while I didn't read every last review here I will say that you have to have thick skin to survive CM. Often times there is JR High Mentality (as with some of the reviews what are we 12?) It's an Adult board we need to remember to put on our big girl panties sometimes. I enjoy the brutal honesty and the general mayhem that happens. I Don't know some of these reviews are just as childish and petty as the things they are whining about.

Top Critical Review

“Shittiest website of all time”

Leonard S.
5/20/20

If you want to read the trashy, $#*!ed thoughts of whoever lead paint chip snacker wrote these articles then go ahead nobody will stop you.

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Thumbnail of user leonards133
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 20th, 2020

If you want to read the trashy, $#*!ed thoughts of whoever lead paint chip snacker wrote these articles then go ahead nobody will stop you.

Thumbnail of user lesliew283
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
November 12th, 2020

If I could give this site "0" stars, I would - without a single ounce of doubt or hesitation.

Tonight, I Googled something that brought me to this site (first time there). I want to tell you that within the first 10 seconds of being on the site, I was SO bombarded with ads & pop-ups that I nearly exited immediately.

However, I decided to search for the "contact us" link first in order to email them about this.

From the time I went from the article I first landed on to the bottom of the page to find the "contact us" button, which could not have been more than 5 seconds, I was once again bombarded by ads & pop-ups (2 ads and 2 pop ups to be exact).

I don't know if they realize this, but keeping up with this type of practice with ads & pop-ups is going to make them lose THOUSANDS of potential customers. THOUSANDS.

No one in their right mind wants to be completely smacked in the face by FOUR ads/pop-ups within a 5 second time frame on ANY website out there - ANY!

They have completely and 100% lost the chance to keep me as a reader/customer. 100%.

I only filled out their contact form tonight because I wanted to let them know what my experience on their site was like so that they could *hopefully* do some thinking & change their strategy for ads & pop-ups for their poor readers & customers.

I seriously feel bad for them (their readers) that THIS is the experience they have every time they visit the site.

100% do not recommend this website.

Tip for consumers:
Do NOT use this site. They are obviously money-hungry if they think that displaying 4 ads in 5 seconds is going to keep any loyal customers - ever. Freakin ridiculous & infuriating.

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Thumbnail of user silvers2
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 5th, 2016

I have been with Cafemom since almost the start and while I didn't read every last review here I will say that you have to have thick skin to survive CM. Often times there is JR High Mentality (as with some of the reviews what are we 12?) It's an Adult board we need to remember to put on our big girl panties sometimes. I enjoy the brutal honesty and the general mayhem that happens. I Don't know some of these reviews are just as childish and petty as the things they are whining about.

Tip for consumers:
Have thick Skin and wear big girl panties.

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Thumbnail of user annoyeds3
1 review
3 helpful votes
November 28th, 2018

I have never been to this website and now there are pop ups about the british royal colonizers. I don't care about them.
Also I am not a mom. Also what on earth does celebrity gossip have to do with being a mom?
Why are there pop ups to this ridiculous waste of time coming onto my computer?

Thumbnail of user krisl77
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 23rd, 2019

I was attempting to read about childhood mental illness and impatient experience. There were constant pop ups that I had to x out in order to be able to read the article. I'll never visit the site again.

Thumbnail of user kellies12
1 review
12 helpful votes
April 4th, 2016

This site is not a place to share your private business. Even if you post as anonymous, they will find out who you are, stalk you, inbox you and even go as far as calling CPS on you (I've seen plenty of post about it!) If you post here be careful and do not put any personal info on this site... especially if you vent about your husband, the members will take one sentence and run with it, calling your husband an@ss, a d! Ck head, cheap & low life. Again do not post anything personal... it will come back to haunt you... beware!

Thumbnail of user rheag
1 review
2 helpful votes
June 15th, 2015

My experience has been pleasant, and I'm mainly involved with larger groups. I'm a known member and have zero stalkers in real life. Some members have become very dear friends.

I make sure to be pleasant and polite, although I'm not perfect. In return, people reciprocate. As long as you aren't a walking lifetime movie, people will be pleasant. They will call you out on self induced drama. They still also respond if you act like a jerk.

Thumbnail of user joannf13
1 review
5 helpful votes
June 24th, 2017

My sister almost killed herself because of this site! I was there at the same time as she was. She never did anything wrong, just posted asking for advice and her life was pulled apart, scrutinized, and destroyed! I check it out every now and then to see if the admins have done anything about this, but shortly after creating an account, It was deleted! Yet it takes them days or weeks to do anything else?

This place is toxic. There should not be a need to 'pull up your panties' and 'have a thick skin' what normal, healthy person would say that you have to just accept bullying!? And just let it go!?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

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Thumbnail of user thoraa
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 8th, 2016

My sister told me about this site and I've tried numerous times to sign up. Every time I tried to sign up 5 minutes later the site owners DELETED my screen name! I tried to log in with no success. I don't know what went on on this site but whatever it was for some reason I guess they do not want new members. I then signed up again to ask why I can't sign up for the site and 10 mins after I posted the question they blocked & deleted me.
Screw this site!

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Babs B.
1 review
4 helpful votes
August 3rd, 2018

I asked Cafemom to deleter my account & while they did do as I asked, they also got pissy & blocked my IP from their website w/ no explanation. & like everyone said there are way too many bullies & mean girls. Probably, all teenagers trying to be grown-up.

Thumbnail of user samantham56
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 4th, 2016

I've been on cm for about 6 years now and I really enjoy it. I spend most of my time in Mom Confessions but I am in some other groups as well. There is a lot of drama and trolling but they make it fun. I've gotten to know some really cool people over the years and gotten support and advice when I've needed it. It's not for those with thin skin, though.

Thumbnail of user livyp
1 review
4 helpful votes
October 2nd, 2017

Members actively stalk, harass, and insult members. Members will seek you out in real life by contacting family members and employers.
Admins, especially in confessions, will not enforce the rules, almost encouraging these "ladies" to act like they are in a zoo. Members will systematically harass and encourage members to commit suicide.
You want to meet the bottom of society and some sociopaths. You have found the right place

Thumbnail of user tiffanye8
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 4th, 2016

I have been on the site since 2006. Their are groups that bully and harass. But their are also a lot of groups that you can join that are helpful and nice to others. Its all about what kind of people you want to hang out with.

Thumbnail of user reginaa9
1 review
17 helpful votes
April 5th, 2016

I got taunted and inboxed all the time by 2 members on this site. I won't say what I talked about on this site but it back fired and I had two people in my inbox calling me sl*t, idiot, who®e saying Why don't you just jump off a bridge? No one will miss you! They harassed me daily and when I begged the owners to delete my post and my account it took the 3 days to do it! I got so fed up with the harassment I crouched down in my closet with a razor to my wrist. My sister walked in and talked me out off it. I'm glad she did. After that my sister had to get on the owners butt about deleting my account. My account is deleted but my post is still there forever. I advice anyone not to go to this site, the members will push you over the edge with their cyber bullying. Now I know how Amanda Todd, Megan Meier and others felt...

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Mary G.
1 review
5 helpful votes
August 25th, 2018

I don't know how I started getting these automatic pop ups, but EVERYTIME I log into the internet, I get a bottom right corner pup up. PLEASE STOP!!!!!

Thumbnail of user ronnies23
1 review
8 helpful votes
September 26th, 2016

I peek in at this site every once in a while and it's a shame that after a year it's still the same. I saw the post on how they went after one member and that member got removed and banned from the site. But the same members that went off on that person are still there and now they're are disrespecting and degrading new members. How do the CafeMom owners solve the problem? By putting a lock on the post, instead of banning the members who insult others. Smh. This site will never change.

Thumbnail of user adeled10
1 review
4 helpful votes
October 11th, 2018

Cafemom closed their community forums because they weren't making enough money so some members created momconfessions.net and moved over there

Thumbnail of user mariam613
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
June 3rd, 2018

I have 4 kids and this is such a great site for tips and help from others moms! Such a wholesome site.

Thumbnail of user sm834
1 review
13 helpful votes
April 5th, 2016

My posts were getting deleted when they did not violate any TOS yet they allow blatant attacking and bullying to go on and have no problems with that whatsoever.

Thumbnail of user marlener7
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 4th, 2016

I've been on CafeMom for 9 years now, it has its good groups and it has its not so good groups.
I have found a couple of very good supportive groups, and then there's Mom Confessions. Yes it's not all unicorns and rainbows, it's more of a gloves off no holds barred type of group. But, I've also seen this group come together and support a member that is going through a time of crisis. Such as the member who lost her soldier husband in a motorcycle accident a few years back, another member that lost a child at birth, this group rallied around those members and offered support and compassion.
I've also seen members help each other with information and links to resources, I've seen members help other members in need.

Take it as it is, there is good and bad in all social media.

Thumbnail of user germainep2
1 review
4 helpful votes
March 1st, 2017

I thought I could get advice. No, it's full of the same bullies and trailer trash making 10s of 1000s of posts. No advice here!

Thumbnail of user amberb25
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
January 16th, 2015

I've been involved with the site from beta testing days (2006 when I was asked to join and help launch it) and I can honestly say it's disappointing. I have watched it evolve and turn into such a nasty place. Groups run by the CM team (mega groups) are the most awful place to be. Those are uncontrolled chaos with inconsistency of administration. If it wasn't for a small group of women that have been a great support system throughout the years, I'd have left the site and never looked back. CM has made some horrible steps, but they don't care, it's all $$$ for page views and that seems to be working for them. I'd never recommend it to any of my friends or family.

Thumbnail of user sherryk12
1 review
12 helpful votes
July 22nd, 2015

This site is nothing but a bunch of bullies. If someone doesn't like what you say you get called names and made fun of. Report the wrong person, or disagree with the wrong person and yo7 get a warnning from the admmins. Thery don't enforce the terms of service. If you're popular you get away with murder. There's some crazies on here. People $#*!ing about how someone in the grocery store had Too much junkfood in their cart one member said she would have called Cps, yes calling cps because of junkfood. Run far far away from this site. They suck.

Thumbnail of user samanthab36
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 15th, 2015

Obviously if you join groups that are known for fighting and negativity that's all you'll notice. There are tons of great people and groups on here. Imo you get out what you put in.

Thumbnail of user lees225
1 review
2 helpful votes
July 28th, 2017

Admins play favorites and dont hold to TOS. I've been banned from mom confessions yet there are members KNOWN attacking and bashing other members who are still allowed.

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