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I've only been an active member of fubar for just a couple of months, but I have noticed some distasteful trends on here. The site itself in my opinion is good so the issue is not the site but rather with many of its users. I consider myself to be an altruistic type of personality both in life and online. I try to help my friends, neighbors, and the occassional stranger from time to time. This same mentality and attitude carries over to my personality online.
The first thing that I found disturbing was how some men address and treat women on this site. I am disgusted at how they assume that every woman on the site is here for one night stands or quick sex. Or that all they want is to see their penis pics and absorb their verbal abuse and disrespectful ways. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the occassional dirty chat session or even camming with a member of the opposite sex. But there are ways to go about that in my opinion. As online friends boundaries have to be set and if you mutually come to the decision that dirty chat and exchanging of pics is perfectly fine then I don't see a problem. But when you talk to a woman as you would a prostitute you purchased on the street just because she might have posted some risque pics on her profile is appalling.
The next problem I have is that some people on here are what I would just term glory hounds or engaged in a popularity contest. They love to have everyone like, rate, fan, friend, crush on them, and send them bling but they don't return the favor. Since I have been here I like, rate, and polish bling from all of my friends, fans, and people I am a fan of on a daily basis. I have a list of 400 plus friends and am lucky if I get 50-70 likes a day! That means that at least 330 of those so called friends are not friends but dead weight. They take take take but they dont reciprocate.
Nothing is more irritating than those who want to level up and need a few million points and want others to just give them points! I work hard everyday to get my required points in order to level up. I have never begged for free points nor would I ever do so. There are so many ways to build up those points if only these users would stop being so lazy and would seek them out.
Finally, I understand that you may have many friends on your list and can't rate and like them all at once. But this is just a matter of time management and rewarding the most deserving of your friends for being loyal and doing the same for you. I check who liked me at the end of every day to see who did and I like and rate from there those I don't know and go to my regular list to do the rest. I even rate, like, polish bling, send a birthday card, and fupal gift fu bucks for all my friends on their birthdays. Most are grateful and express that in emails to me. Others don't say a word and just continue leeching off of the kindness of more appreciative members of the community.
