Meet Me

Meetme can be very fun. It's easy to meet people from around the world, but it's aggravating on many levels. First, there are tons of fake profiles--profiles by the hundreds with "Kik" in their name or "3-sum fun," or "mother-daughter fun"—names that could be filtered out before the owners of such profiles even take off. Worse, this app punishes you for using it how it's designed to be used. Say you want to talk to people in France. And you search "paris, france, and you see people you think you might chatting with and go through the profiles either typing or copying and pasting, "hello. How are you?" Do thtat long enough, and your profile will be flagged for verification because meetme "found some suspicious activity on your account." even if you can log back in, they never say what constitutes the suspicious activity, but i've been shut down enough to feel confident saying it's because of saying "hello. How are you?" too often, either copying and pasting or typing it in. If everyone wrote back everytime... there'd be no need to cast such a wide net. It doesn't matter how long you've had the profile or that you're being polite. Your profile will be flagged and shut down until you verify your profile. You can verify it through some kind of face recognition thingy... but say you shave your beard, or grow one, or cut your hair--it won't recognize you. You can get some help to manually via *******@meetme.com to verify the account but not always. And you're done. If your profile is unverified long enough, or say you get caught saying "hello. How are you?" too many times in a short span, your profile will be shut down for "violating terms of service." nowhere are the terms of service listed. And on this app, there are streamers. You can buy diamonds to give to streamers... i've noticed meetme will shut down your profile quicker if you have paid for a lot of credits--you lose those credits and you can't give them to anyone. Apparently, the method they use to detect "suspicious" activity doesn't recognize if you've bought credits or not, and if you get shut down Meetme gets whatever remained on your account. And don't even think about getting help from customer support. It's no help. They won't tell you why what constitutes "suspicious activity"--knowing that would help you avoid getting shut down. They won't tell you what is constitutes a violation of the terms of service.

In short, this is a fun app, but it's run by people who don't care if you make friends, have credits, or simply want to say "hello. How are you?" this app punishes you for using it as it is intended to be used--and you can lose friends and money in the process.