OnlineBootyCall Review - AskMen

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Editor’s Summary

As you might expect, OnlineBootyCall is for booty calls. That’s all it’s about. It’s not a complicated matchmaking site like eHarmony. It doesn’t have endless personality quizzes. It doesn’t ask you to share your hopes and dreams with other users. It’s not designed to engineer romance. It’s just a stripped-down social networking site designed to get you laid. If that’s what you’re looking for, read on.

OnlineBootyCall is extremely easy to use, and it’s very quick. Joining up is a really fast process, and all you need is an email address and a picture. You answer a short questionnaire -- basically just a statement of what kind of people you’d like to sleep with, and how soon -- and you’re good. You don’t even need to write a profile, because the site automatically generates one for you based on the interests you’ve provided. The only step that takes any time is a picture verification process: the moderators check out your picture to make sure that you haven’t uploaded a photo of a duck, or a stock photo, or anything obscene. This is reassuring, because you know that the women whose pictures you’re browsing aren’t entirely fabricated. Also, unlike with other casual hookup sites, you won’t get random shots of genitalia as you’re searching through potential matches.

With a free membership, you can get a decent idea of what the site is about, but the functionality is quite limited. You can’t use the “Who’s Online” feature, which allows you to message logged-in users, giving you the promise of instant connection. You can't send messages to other free members. And you can’t browse the explicit pictures which some users choose to upload. So that’s no fun. Worse still, free members are pelted with popups advertising premium features. Luckily, membership is quite affordable, especially long-term memberships, which are heavily discounted. Also, a paid membership gives you a signal boost: you’re more prominently featured in user searches.

The site is all about efficiency. The “quick search” feature instantly gives you a lot of matches to go through, sorted in no particular fashion. But if you’d like to go into more detail -- say, if you’d like to search specifically for short people of mixed ethnicity within 50 miles of you -- then you can do that. As well, the site has a rotating list of featured profiles, if you just want an opportunity to message a short curated list of hot people. As a whole, the search functions are easy and no more difficult to use than Google. They’re also really fast. The site never lags or pauses to load whatsoever. And, if even that extreme level of convenience isn’t quite convenient enough for you, there’s also the “Get Lucky” feature. It’s essentially the option to browse the site’s users in Tinder-style: you see one match after another, and you accept or reject them, and if one matches you back, then you can start messaging. It’s really nice to have the choice of seeing matches either based on searches or based on random assignation, because both are fun and useful in their own way.

The site’s simplicity is both the site’s strength and its only real weakness. Unlike with a more traditional dating site, like OKCupid, there’s not a lot of way to insert personality into your profile. There’s nothing even remotely like a matching algorithm, and the automatically generated profiles are really sparse. Basically it’s just a list of the most elementary stuff you’re looking for in a hook-up. So unless you use a particularly quirky picture, there’s no easy way to differentiate yourself from the other dudes using the site. In some ways, this is completely understandable -- it’s OnlineBootyCall, and you usually don’t need to read someone’s whole philosophy of living to decide whether you want to pursue their booty. And the site’s minimalism is what keeps it easy and fast. But the option to provide more detailed information about yourself, as well as get it from other people, would add a little bit of depth to the user experience.

There’s only one other drawback to OnlineBootyCall, which is the site’s visual design. It’s simply not nice to look at. The color scheme is odd, the text isn’t particularly readable, and the whole thing looks pretty amateurish. In a way, this is a weird complaint to make about a hook-up website, because your goal on OnlineBootyCall isn’t to enjoy hours of pleasurable online browsing, it’s to get off the website and into some lucky person’s pants. However, if you do end up browsing OnlineBootyCall for a lengthy period of time, your eyeballs might not enjoy the experience so much.

In spite of that, for those looking for an easy hook-up site, OnlineBootyCall is highly recommended for its impressively streamlined nature. It gets the job done fast.

IN DEPTH

Sign-Up Process

The only thing you need to sign up is an email address. The process is very quick -- you just have to list your vital statistics and the basics of what you’re interested in, in terms of gender and age. You’ll be logged on in mere minutes. However, there is a picture verification process, which takes a few hours, during which the site’s moderators determine that you’ve uploaded an appropriate photo. That gets you a free membership, which lets you browse around the site and message some of the user base. To access all the site’s features, you’ll need a paid membership, which is relatively inexpensive. Users with paid memberships are displayed in more searches.

Members & Messaging

The users of OnlineBootyCall are diverse in just about every respect -- age, ethnicity, body type, and so on. Chances are, you’ll find someone to be interested in. Once you do this, messaging is really simple. It looks just like email. The main messaging feature is supplemented by live chat, allowing you to choose between texting-style rapid communication and more lengthy correspondence.

Key Features

- Get Lucky feature brings you matches without having to search for them

- Explicit profiles are provided by a portion of the site’s users

- Free trial membership gives you a good sense of the site experience

- Who’s Online lets you connect with logged-in users for instant interaction

- Featured profiles feature gives you a rotation of highly rated users to message

Safety & Security

OnlineBootyCall, like most other social networking sites, doesn’t distribute personally identifiable information about its users, but does retain cookies and other user data, both in order to serve ads and for the site’s internal analytics. This, of course, stops applying if, for any reason, law enforcement wants your personal info. All sensitive communications are SSL-encrypted. Financial details are shared with the third-party services that OnlineBootyCall uses to process payment, but are otherwise secure. The privacy policy is admirably detailed and scrupulously lists all of the guarantees that OnlineBootyCall does and doesn’t make.

Noteworthy

Unlike many online hook-up sites, OnlineBootyCall was founded a long time ago, in Internet terms—the site went up in 2003, making it older than dating stalwart OkCupid. The site offers its users advice in the form of 10 somewhat silly "Booty Call Commandments," beginning with the sensible “thou shalt get out before the sun rises.”

Main Competitors

FuckBook, Snapsext, Uberhorny

Free Trial: $0.00

1-Month Membership: $20.00

3-Month Membership: $30.00 (50% savings)

1-Year Membership: $60.00 (75% savings)

Lifetime Membership: $90.00

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