Badoo.com - Multi-lingual Social Networking Site

Want to meet people? Badoo is a multi-lingual social networking site with innovative photo and video features where you can meet people from all over the word, share photos, rate pics, and find friends. To get started, just fill in an online registration form. You’ll be asked to provide them with certain information such as your name, your e-mail address, your gender, your date of birth, nationality, your location details and some optional details about yourself. These details are available to you anytime, and capable of being corrected or updated through the "Your Profile" page. At your own discretion, you may choose to post additional facts about yourself on your profile, such as your occupation, level of education, religious denomination, marital status, etc.

You can search people using the search box tool by age, location, or use the advanced search feature where you can enter multiple search criteria, for example: eye color + religion + language. Badoo makes easy communicate with people from around the globe. It includes chat, remote messages, photo hosting and has a strong focus on dating relationships. You can choose to either post or no post photos. But if you find someone from your city with your same interests and start chatting, if the person doesn’t have any photo, you can doubt if he is really who he says he is, so posting photos gives more credibility to users. You can also vote on other users’ photos and find out how you rank among the rest.

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Social networking is popular per se. Badoo is just another online community to meet people. The site is well thought out. It is available in several languages like Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Czech, giving it a broader potential audience.

Is it a safe and reliable site? Why are so many people recommending not registering on Badoo? At registration you are asked to enter your msn/gmail/yahoo username and password to find out if other friends are also on badoo. If you do that they import all your contacts and send them invitations in your name. They import all your photos you have stored in your email to their site. Will they periodically send you spam or connect with your msn to send spam to your contacts? Will people prefer to use msn for chat and Flickr for photos?