InterPals.net

I get stonewalled, no communication after 3 to 6 messages. There is much sexual harrassment and it's basically turned into a cyber dating site, even a cyber sex site.

A friend of mine told me give them another chance this Christmas. I tried to make friends with some men and women. The women often act very abusive and catty (my experience) and the men are often married and looking for outside companionship without letting me know until we have communicated more than once.
I find that extremely disturbing.
The last person I talked to there was married with a daughter and did not write me after 5 communications. He got me all hooked on him (grooming and befriending) and then dumped me. I suspect that his wife caught him; this has happend before on another site, too.
Please try another site and be careful. Especially if you are underage.
Review update 1-19-17

As for mid 2023 reality:
Interpals heavily rely on "automated system" which have an extensive authority: suspend accounts, send template messages, autodetect keywords, etc...
Their system is poorly made and very low quality.
Also bad by base (not fit for purpose) because very similar for the ones which operates on low quality dating sites.

But have close to 0 human presence/ oversight.
Some reviews do talk about moderators - I did seen only bots with human names, who send template messages, and autodetect files/ data, like: is the user attached/ uploaded picture?

To ask for ID vertification via automatic template messages after auto suspension is more than ridiculous also insecure. Also they "forget" to consider that people may NOT wanna use their platform for dating.

Update:
After checking most of the reviews (here and other places as well) and also the people who done multiple reviews seems to have a contributing pattern here above the poor quality automated system:
Certain (usually former) users* who "make their business" to:
- mass search/ report profiles for whatever
* Most have female names.
When such combined with auto-systems which do suspend profiles after like 2 reports = sabotaged unusable platform.

Have used IP for 13 years, but not at all for months. Disillusioned. I get a message saying I am on a warning for Harassment and Threats! I am a 64 yr old widow, who have I been threatening? Especially as I have only used the site about twice this year. It used to be good when it was voluntary, now it is some money making scheme run from Texas and it has just sunk. I used to report scammers, until I got told I was reporting too many! Err,, I was doing Your job? They might be a joke to you little nerds, but they have wrecked people's lives. I suppose it easier to bully older people.My crime was 'Offending 'someone (I made an innocent joke about something in someone's profile) so I wrote,'well You have Offended Me, now who do I report You to?' In the early days I made good online friends there, some of whom I still contact regularly, but not on Ipals! We rarely use it anymore. Once I would have given it a glowing review, but now it is just Sad. No decent moderation, no interest in standards and seems to be being used mostly by dull Americans and Arabs/Africans looking for a way into the West. Plus the ever present scammers and sex pests. If I was starting now, I would give it a miss.

I used this site to find new friends but what I found was my information like name, address etc. being leaked on the dark web. I know this because I have Norton360 with Lifelock. Do not trust this website with anything!

This is an online penpal site that connects people from all over the world for the purpose of learning different languages firstly and secondly to meet new friends and even form relationships.

There are thousands of people on this site from many different world locations such as:

Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Australia/Oceania
South America

This site even offers online chatting so that one can chat with different people from different countries as well.

One can even choose if one wants to keep in contact with friends either by snail mail or by email. This site really is a fun experience as well as a learning experience and if you are interested in meeting nee people and making new friends as well as learning about different cultures and new languages then here seems like the place to do it.

I joined this site to practice a language, because I've been struggling to find websites where I can type in the language to other people. My inbox was immediately filled with men who don't speak the language I'm looking to learn, so I figured "okay, if I keep blocking them, EVENTUALLY I'll have gotten everyone". I even had a few nice conversations, despite some Russian guy continually accusing me of being fake because I didn't want to speak with him.

Then I got banned for no reason. Maybe because I was using an adblocker? Maybe because the 200 guys I had to block reported me as a scammer or something? I don't know, they won't tell me. I was incredibly disappointed and felt like I wasted my time trying to wade through that cesspool.

I first discovered this site around late 2012 early 2013. It actually wasn't so bad then. I made a few friends from Europe and was able to visit them. I took a break and came back around 2014. It was a little worse but I was still able to connect with a few people. Starting around 2015 the site just went completely downhill and got worse with each year. It's almost unusable now as it is full of horny males looking for sex chat, wives, or girls to date in countries they want to live in. Because of these pests it has made these women angry and when normal people like myself contact them I am met with ill tempered nutjobs looking to argue/insult. This website is more of a comedy site now and something I am using less than 30 minutes a week. I know if I want a laugh I can login and read the message of some lunatic. It's nothing more than time killer now.

My account was suspended after I refused to skype with this random man. The Moderator suspended my account after this random guy demanded me to skype with him for sexual purposes of course. I sent them a message and they said that they would review my account. Is this site run my perverts? I was looking to meet people from around the world and not to hop in the sack with these random guys. My question is why did this website Moderator listen to this pervert to suspend my account? I'm looking to expose them for the kind of website they are.

I've just joined recently and so far I've met a few nice and interesting people. There have been a few people that are flirtatious but when I told them I wasn't interested and joined for a penpal, they were very respectful and understood. Of course I'm not going to say there aren't any bad people on the site but that's pretty expected from any social media of any type. Overall I like the website so far but I wish the website was a bit more proactive about taking inappropriate users off.

This site is awful. You create an account and they'll willy-nilly delete or suspend your account without any defense or being given the opportunity to fix any errors or mistakes you may make on the site in accident. They give you no opportunity to erase your error, they just delete you and delete you and delete you. Even when you're told you can create a new email address and create a new account they'll delete you. This is the worst friendship website on the market today. Do not waste your time on this piece of trash website. I promise you'll regret and get so frustrated with the site you'll want to pull your hair out in frustration.

This site is a watering hole for male sexual predators from all over the world. If you are an attractive woman with your photo posted you will be bombarded by male members that will try to lure you into doing online chat via Skype or online messaging to try to take advantage of you for free online cybersex, soliciting for money, or sexting. Women are at a definite disadvantage on this site. Best solution is DO NOT post your photo on this site on your profile.
This will help to weed the useless chafe looking for a free thrill on the internet.

I joined interpals to make actual friends and i got were people who do not view you back, people who do not respond to your polite messages, people that read your message and don't reply, people that block you if you say 'hello' for no reason, people that say message them and that they want friends but view you and do not respond. It made me feel like i did something wrong or my picture of myself is ugly but it is not me at all. It is a rubbish site filled with wierdo's who have no real lives and people that are looking for likes on their fake, photoshop trashy pictures. Nobody from america is real btw, and the asian people show very eccentric pictures too. They are such rude people on that site, i won't be going back, to all people on it, you are sad losers.

I've used Interpals for over seven years and I can pretty much tell you this website used to be a good website to chat, talk and creat lifelong friendships and maybe meet a girlfriend, believe it or not.
Back in 2011, I met tons of people who I still talk to, few of them should I say, and back then it was nice and it seemed that people genuinely wanted to talk to you, get to know you and even learn your language, but here's when things kind of changed, from 2014 on I couldn't meet a single person, things got bored and it didn't have the sparkle anymore, you just would scroll up and down all day long and not a single soul would get back to you, which was very annoying, by the way.
All in all, it's worth trying and good to do some language exchance, but nothing more than that now, although you might be the lucky one and go past "hi, how are you?"

This is possibley the most weird site ever. Firstly, nobody is looking for a Penpal or someone to have a conversation with or improve their language skills. The profile will say, improve their language and not looking for flirting or romance and that they are married or in a relationship. Then you look at the photos and believe me they are looking for far more than an Penpal! Oh, and thie friends appear to be young men from countries where English isn't the first language. You might get a few single words reply, again odd because they complain of people just saying Hi or Hello. If you are really lucky a whole sentence in very good English. If you comment on the good English it's back to Borat very quickly. And if you make no comment about the photos, why would you need to? You are dead in the water.
Now, be especially careful with the ones who claim to be deep thinkers or intellectual s and free spirits. These are usually very nasty and rude and way up themselves. They think they can insult because you are not on the level and don't understand the joke. Believe me, they usually get smoked out quickly and that's why they go running off. Lots of young men on the site trying to get their hands on anything they can.
I understand that people like to feel desirable and wanted, even escape the tedious little lives they have but this is not the site they should be on. If you want to connect try looking for local groups and talking to people on the bus etc, you will get more. Please be careful using this creepy site.

Sorry but interpals is full of idiots.
You can forgot about learning languages because most time you will writing in english. Most people are rude and arogant. Many people have miliard words in their profile page and telling you that they dont answer to only hi, hello etc. then how to start conversation woth people who have answers on everything in their page... site is need to fix because sometimes you getting messages but messages page is clean.

It used to be a really good website until 2016, then the indian scammer was registering on there. He creates tons of fake accounts to attack ppl and mods. Often he's holding discussions between his different accounts, you can see it in the Indian thread and in the general threads. He pretended to be a brazilian, polish girls, dutch men, a dutch girl, afgani, indonesians, singaporean girl and filipina. He used to discuss such issues as threesomes and all. Also his favourite issues are skin colour, racism and cannibalism. During 1.5 years he lies that he met celebrities face to face and has a very beautiful GF from the USA, who calls him every day to India and loves him. It isn't a regular troll, but hideous and very harrassing psychopath. The big reason many people stop loving the site.

Joined when I was around 18 [23 now from the UK] and was almost scammed to the point of sextortion. Absolutely disgraceful. Honestly the amount of times I was asked to webcam and my computer (thank god I'm a tech nerd) told me they were recording my screen. I'm so glad that I was that scared to leave at the time; but it's taken this long to actually write something about this.
Seriously, don't sign up to this site.
It's full of sickos.
I'd rate it 0 but I don't have a choice