Furrymate
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| FurryMate | |
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| Author(s) | ? |
| Website | |
| Status | Online |
| Launch date | 2011 |
| Genre | Social network service, dating website |
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FurryMate.com - The Ultimate Furry Dating Site. 7,205 likes 68 talking about this. FurryMate.com - The Ultimate Furry Dating Site 力 Find Real Furry Love Now! 力 Join for FREE today and meet your. The dating website 'Furrymate' is in the Hobby- / Special Interest Dating category. This site welcomes people with straight, gay and lesbian sexual orientation. Founded in 2011, it is now 10 years old. The frontpage of the site does not contain adult images. This is a stand-alone dating site.
FurryMate.com is your premier Furry dating and relationship community. When was FurryMate.com created? FurryMate.com was created in early 2011, in Montreal, Canada. We reached out to our community, gathered feedback and created what you see today. We continue to encourage feedback as we believe our services can always be improved. FurryMate's essentially a scam, don't go anywhere near it. Best thing to do is circulate in your local community, go to events, get onto local message boards and develop one on one friendships that way. Problem is I don't have a lot of physical events like that in my immediate area.
FurryMate is an online furrysocial networking and online dating service.
History[edit]
Due to an unexpected level of interest during its initial launch, the site was forced to shut down in order to upgrade its servers. The site relaunched at the end of May 2011. A June 12 2011 news post stated 'We have grown to almost 4000 members in under two weeks'.[citation needed] A December 2011 news post stated 'we already have 12,000 members'.[citation needed]
FurryMate describes itself:
| Founded in 2011 in Montreal, Canada, FurryMate.com is your premier Furry Dating and Relationship site. We work hard to bring you a safe, comfortable and fun environment to meet and interact. We are the only Furry Dating website that encourages real relationships to flourish.[1] |
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Services and fees[edit]
To effectively use FurryMate's features, users must subscribe to the service and pay a monthly membership fee.[citation needed] Non-paying users are severely limited in that they may send messages yet cannot read any received messages.[2]
the main page initial image design was by MushyMutt.
Mainstream media coverage[edit]
- 14 Weirdest (REAL) Dating Sites article on SMOSH (#14: FurryMate.com)
- Crazy dating trends we hope go away on MSN
- New Trekkie dating site already has plenty of competition article on The Daily Dot (Furrymate.com and Pounced.org)
- WSJ branding datapoint of the day article on Reuters
Controversy[edit]
FurryMate has fallen under heavy scrutiny and backlash for its use of fake accounts bots[citation needed] to send messages to their members to entice them into upgrading to paid accounts.[clarify][citation needed]
These bots messages look legit,[citation needed] informing members that someone wants to speak to them,[citation needed] and that they should subscribe to the service to be able to read their messages.[3][4]
References[edit]
- ↑About us page in the Furry Mate website. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
- ↑FAQ page in the Furry Mate website. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
- ↑Furries share worries about pay-dating fraud: spotlight on FurFling.com - Patch Packrat, Flayrah. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
- ↑Revisiting fake furry dating sites - comment by Dragoneer on Reddit thread. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
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See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Furrymatesco
- FurryMate on Facebook
- FurryMate on Tumblr
- FurryMate on Twitter
- FurryMate on Wordpress
- FurryMate on YouTube
Furrymate Review
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