When you run a popular internet dating site like Datepad.com from time to time we receive some rather unusual support requests and comments. Below is one we felt inclined to share with the world.

Here are a couple of things to note while reading this comment, while this gal believes so highly in the sanctity of marriage our ads only appear on other dating sites??

Our ads have never contained nor will they ever contain nudity, in fact Google whom we exclusively use doesn’t allow anything of this nature!
I hope you enjoy the read as much as our team did!

(Please keep in mind this is a true cut and paste, we didn’t change a thing!)

Abuse Type: A profile (content)
Screen Name: all sexual vugarity to me! my family!!!! other people in the world!!!!!!!!!

Webpage: all my websites! it’s like no matter! where I go your ad’s are there! or some connection! it’s sicking!!! match.com yahoo personals,date match! that’s fine! for single people! but what about ones that aren’t???

Everything! pictures comments!!! it’s all sicking!!! and it’s ruining!!! My marriage! My life! My husbands!!!!

We have our 24th Wedding,Anniverary! comming up in May! And,all wev’e been doing, is fighting!!!! Over your stupied! ad’s!!!!

And Emails that you keep sending us! in our Emails!!!! “Meet Sexy… Singles” in Your!!!! Area! Come! People!!!! I am sick of it!
And it’s Never! Men!!!! It’s always!!!! “Women” Little chovistic isn’t it? And the way, you Expolit! Women!!! is humliating!!!!! to me! Me as a Woman!!!! Do I not have any right’s??? I don’t CARE! IF, it is! what, the public! Want’s?…. “The world???…. What about! morrals?

And, God???? I have a fourteen year old boy! at home!!! that, I can’t hardly let use!!! are own computer! “Now, that’s not right!

I keep trying, to block your trash! but, can’t! Feel, sorry! for Me???? No! Because, you people make to much! Money!!!! Off, of what! you do! By slutting… other people! It’s a disgrace! to our! country! and, Nation! And People, wonder! Why? their’s so much, Anger? fighting.. killing!!!! Because, of website’s like these! your breaking and taring down the family wall’s and, unit’s

How can people share love? When their hidding, secerts in their in boxes??? or mails??? hmh? You tell me?
ALL your doing is killing good people! By telling them “It’s Okay!”…. TO LOOK! NO IT’S NOT! OKAY! TO LOOK!!!! THAT’S LIKE GIVING A SMALL CHILD,A REAL GUN!!!! “AND, SAYING… NOW, DON’T POINT THAT AT ANYONE! ‘joey!” DO YOU! GET IT?

YOUR CORRUPTING THE WORL WITH THIS BEHAVIOR!!!
WHEN YOU MARRY! SOMEONE! YOUR COMMITTING! TO THAT PERSON! NOT ANOTHER DUMB BLONDE! OR BRUENETTE! WITH HER LEGS SPREAD! SO FAR OPEN! SHE LOOK’S LIKE A PEACH! OR HER ASS! WIDE OPEN!

IT’S DISGUSTING! WHAT! YOU PEOPLE! DO!!!! AND, BY GOD! IT’S TIME!!!!! YOU KNEW IT!!! AND i GUESS, I HAVE TO BE THE ONE! TO HAVE THE GUTT’S TO STAND UP!!!! AND SAY SO! ENOUGH! IS ENOUGH!!!! AND TO STAND UP! AND SAY! WHAT I THINK! RATHER,IT MATTERS OR NOT! YOU PEOPLE ARE LIKE CHILDERN! YET WORSE! BECAUSE, EVEN SMALL CHILDERN KNOW WHAT’S RIGHT! FROM WRONG!!! AT THE AGE… OF WHAT? IS ONE? TWO??? OR FIVE?

i JUST HAVE HAD ENOUGH! OF YOUR WEBSITE! IT SHOULD BE CLOSED!!!! DOWN!!!! ALONG WITH MANY OTHER’S! YOUR A DISGRACE TO THE HUMAN RACE!
DATING? THAT’S FINE! BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO SHOW NAKED OR HALF NAKED PEOPLE TO ADVERTISE! ALL THAT DOES, IS MAKE YOU LOOK THAT MUCH WORSE! AND WHY WOULD I WANT TO LOOK AT IT?

I AM MARRIED! AND SO IS MY HUSBAND!

Launched in December of 2007, Zoosk is a relative newcomer to the online dating world, but it’s already made an impact. In addition to the site itself, Zoosk applications are available for a number of popular social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace.

The site has a nice clean design. It’s fun and it’s friendly, even if it is a bit juvenile. The use of color is pleasantly muted, doesn’t overpower, and the Zoosk logo is catchy.

The site is very easy to use, and all aspects are easily available from the main page. Even if English isn’t your main language, Zoosk offers services in twelve other languages including French and Spanish.

Creating a profile is painless, and you do have the option of creating what I call a skeletal profile (one that has just some basic information) before you decide to bare your soul to the rest of the world.

The search is a breeze to set up. Besides age range, you can request matches within a 160 km radius or less, and narrow down the results by height, religion, relationship status, children, ethnicity, education and political outlook.

The help section is easy to use and has answers to questions that users will commonly ask. If the answer you’re looking for isn’t available there’s an easy to follow link for Customer Support.

Zoosk policy requires that users have at least one photo on their profile, though there is no mention of what you cannot do on the site without one! In other words, if you have only one photo on your profile, you can’t delete it without first uploading another one. Now if they’d only do something about all those profiles that show someone’s boat/motorcycle/house/garden etc.! A note of caution to those who install the Zoosk application on a social networking site; Zoosk will adopt the picture from your social network profile until such time as you upload another photo to Zoosk. So don’t be fooled into thinking your profile doesn’t have a photo, because it just might!

As a non-premium member “the system may restrict you from continuing conversations with other non-premium members”. I find this sentence incredibly annoying. What’s with this “may” business? Does it or doesn’t it? It’s difficult to understand, just from reading this. I had a further look through the Help section and only premium members have unrestricted communication access, although non-premium members can initiate contact to and reply to communications from premium members.

There appears to be a syncing issue between the Zoosk site and the Facebook application. Users have told us that if the app is downloaded into Facebook, and they then go to the site and create a profile, once they return to Facebook their profile information doesn’t transfer. Definitely annoying.

The search uses your location to initiate searches which is fine; however, you cannot search for members outside of a 160 km radius, which is incredibly restrictive! Mind you this is easily overcome by changing your own location, but really shouldn’t be necessary. Given that this is a global application, I’d like to be able to search for anyone, anywhere, just because I’m curious! You know what they say about the grass being greener!

Like some other internet dating sites reviewed here, this site is reluctant to part with pricing information before you’ve created a profile. We’ve taken the guesswork out of it for you because we believe that’s just nonsense! Fees for Zoosk are $12.50 per month for six months, $17.49 per month for three months or $24.99 for one month. Accounts paid by credit card will be automatically renewed. As with all other paid dating sites that we’ve reviewed, Zoosk has a “no refund” policy, so if you sign up for a six month membership, and decide to cancel after three months, Zoosk gets to keep your money! It’s buyer beware.

It’s become abundantly clear that SpeedDate.com’s security policy needs a complete overhaul if it is to overcome the serious breach it experienced on February 3, 2009. For approximately thirty minutes, though it could have been longer, access to user accounts required only a user name and no password.

By simply typing in a user name and clicking on “log in”, user accounts were seriously compromised as anyone could have, and did, gain access to accounts that were not their own. And by doing so, they were able to access the user’s email, account information and other personal information including their contact list.

All we can say is “Wow!”. And not in a good way.

Any internet dating or social network site is built on the information that the members supply, and that information is given on the premise that the information is secure. In SpeedDate’s case that premise has been sorely tested.

This is not the first time that controversy and criticism has come raining down on the company. Just over a year ago the company faced censure from Facebook after SpeedDate bought several non dating related Facebook applications and converted the users of the apps to SpeedDate application users without permission. The result was a temporary ban from Facebook.

Here’s a company that not only buys members through what can only be described as underhanded methods, but now treats its database as some sort of all you can eat buffet. If I were a SpeedDate member, I’d yank my membership and look for a site that treats my personal information securely.