I have little interest in dating sites like match.com.
It is appealing, however, that someone from my past/distant past might be looking for me. (although I realize that that may not always be a good thing)
I keep getting emails from them that suggests that 4 people (or more) from Chicago/Evanston Ill are looking for me. I’m from Chicago, but I’ve been in Ohio the best part of 20 years. But…I’m from Chicago and was there a long time.
Is this simply a match.com-like dating site that’s dressing itself up as as a craigslist “missed connections”-like site?
Anybody have any dealings with this site?
I use the site for searching for people. Sure they want to sell information. I have nothing against that. I object to paying for something I can have for free. I take what is free and move on. I see no other reason to be on the site.
I’ll submit that much if not all of your goal above can generally be accomplished on Facebook more easily than on an obscure-ish site like mylife.com.
It didn’t used to be so obscure when it was Reunion.com.
Right up there with Classmates.com.
Is Mylife.com a scam? Well…mostly. Not 100% but mostly.
A little backstory - my parents were unmarried teenagers when I was born in 1962 (my mother was only 16 and my father was not quite 18). My mother’s parents were really nasty people, and my father was basically ordered/threatened to stay away. He would sneak around to see me and my mother, but that ended when they got caught. He eventually moved away and my mother was not able to reconnect with him once she turned 18. His name is on my birth certificate, though, and I use his last name. Periodically i would do an internet search, but his name is really common and I had no luck. At some point I went onto Mylife.com, and put in his name. Of course it came up with several matches (common name and all that) but no way was I going to pay money to get more detail. I’m cynical that way. I did put some minimal contact information into my profile (a P.O. Box address I’ve had for years, and my birth date), but never went back to the site, except to turn off the email option - I got tired of the nearly-daily emails from them.
Last August, I checked my P.O. Box only to find a letter from my father! :eek: It turns out he saw one of the tv ads for Mylife.com, and went onto the site (thinking he might find old friends or perhaps old enemies) and saw my name as someone who was looking for him. He paid for the trial membership and sent me a message through Mylife, that I never got since I’d turned off emails from the site - too much spam. After a while he paid for the next tier up and got my contact information and wrote me a letter. Turns out he lives about 50 miles from me. So thanks to Mylife, my father and I are getting to know each other and have a relationship.
The scam part is where they charge your credit card for a full year “membership” at once - several hundred dollars instead of the 30 or so you were expecting. My father’s wife was able to get most of the charges reversed after many long phone calls (she’s retired and has the time to handle this kind of thing).
The other scam part is, no matter what, the site will always say that there are 5 or so people looking for you, or that they have found the person you’re looking for. I’ve read that some people have tried putting in a non-name like Sdwdxhiiu Zdigg, and it will still say that there are 5 people looking for that person. :rolleyes:
Facebook is the #2 site, right after Google.
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All things are relative.