PenPalWorld

I do believe this site has been online one year less than *I* have! Seriously, that's pretty impressive. How long have you been online? Meaning *after* you spent ages denying you'd ever touch the internet? (Those were the days and I remember them!)

Yes, yes, yes, people are paranoid on PenPalWorld, just like they are paranoid on most "social" sites minus the major names out there that remove inhibitions like alcohol does. The thing is there are a ton of options for searching on this site and this is a major advantage to the other sites. You can look for recently joined, recently logged in, age, gender, whatever the person feels safe enough to share or lie about. (Of course!) Those search options are the thing you really want to investigate and get a good sense of to find who you are looking for.

The other really great thing with Pen Pal World is they give a big list of smileys which show a theme of interest and if you look for others with that smiley interest you shall be very intrigued. (The best one for postal mail geeks is "I feel like Snail Mail". Really! That darn thing works!)

So what many of these reviews lack is pointing out the major options in the search parameters. That is the big advantage at Pen Pal World, along with their longevity. I recommend this site and forking over some cash if you can, especially when you do find decent pals. Might as well return the favour. It's great to have other options but considering, well, "Interpervs"? Y' gotta admit this ain't lookin' too bad!

(My User-Name is Sir Simon Milligan on PPW, btw. ;)

Blocked me for no reason other than to. Never approved profile photos.
Rude and mean spirited.
Filled with 60-75% fake profiles.

I read a few reviews giving this site a bum review IMO so I thought I would write why I think it's a good site all things considered. I am not affiliated at all with the site just a user.

I know it's costly to run a website so not sure what people using it would expect for free. They only allow non paying members 3 messages a day for free which I think is fair considering that they ALSO have messages at each profile where someone can leave a short comment there up to 10 messages a day for free.

While I can't remember the name of another similar site that only allowed one or two credits a day if you are lucky if you are a non paying member there but in addition to that if you were on the free part of that site you could not send any messages to someone there that was/is a paying member there. No messages at their profiles other than the one or two a day that non paying members are allowed to send. At PenPalWorld they do allow non paying members to send messages to paying members.

You always have to watch out for scammers on any site but it's pretty easy to tell when you get spam and they do have a report/block on each profile that non paying members have access to.

The only reason I don't give a 5 star review is because you can only see the last 3 messages that are sent to you and that you send others if you are a non paying member so that's inconvenient especially for people that can't stay signed on and be there frequently to get their messages However, if you go to someone's profile there it will let you know if you have sent them a message before which is really good if someone is like me and can't remember if they sent a message to someone or not. I can't remember if it also reads that they have sent you a message before if they have sent one to you before, too.

It also allows people to see if someone has read their messages which is another plus.

No site can be blamed when a person doesn't get replies to their messages. It is up to individuals to reply or not so the owner would have no control over that.