InterPals Omdömen 

I registered there, because I wanted to meet female ( and not male) friends in Istanbul. To explore Istanbul and to learn or teach languages.
I wrote in my profile exactly that I am not looking for males, and only people that live in Istanbul.
But from the first moment on my account was flooded with messages of young guys from foreign countries. I even started to chat with one guy from Istanbul, and complained about that thing. And when he offered me to help me in case I have any problem in Istanbul, I told him that usually everybody that said this in Istnabul, so far only wanted money.
That wasn´t racist, it is my experience and a fact.
But the next day my account was cancelled. That means Interpals read your private chats. And if they don´t like your opinion you are out. There is no privacy at all, and no freedom of speech and opinion.
I wrote several times to the support of Interpals, and asked friendly if they could please tell me the reason for cancelling my account. They never answered.
In other words, if women are not willing to deal with guys from all around the globe, that even could be their sons, and that are looking for financial support or a passport for the U.S. or the EU, or just sexual adventures, Interpal deletes their account.
I and when I read all the horror comments here, I am glad that they deleted my account. :)
The support of Interpals is as unserious as their users.
Avoid this website!!!!!!

It's disgusting the amount of perverts and nasty men on this site. I have been called a cow, pig, fat, prostitute, bltch, ugly, sworn at, etc. I've had unwanted sexual messages, men threating to send unwanted dick picks, men talking about raping me (and someone said he would rape my mam) and impregnating me. Had someone keep creating accounts to say nasty things to me. Blocked another guy then he made a new account to harass me. I've had some really vile things said to me. All this was because I wasn't interested in these men. Then you have the catfishes. Had some trying to get me to help them get into the UK also, asking if I will marry them etc. Interpals sucks!

Interpals gives you a warning for defending yourself against some of this disgusting crap after a creep reported me (after I told him I had reported him).

I began my InterPal account eagerly, but after reading these plentiful negative reviews, I decided to delete my account. Well, guess what? Apparently, one can't delete their InterPal account until it's been active for seven days! InterPal says that this is to prevent spam, which doesn't make any sense to me. I appreciate that they're concerned about spam, but I don't see how deleting one's account early on has anything to do with promoting that sort of thing. InterPal's website is also unpolished and occasionally glitchy, and there don't seem to be directions about how to discover a pen-pal. (I decided NOT to try to figure it out on my own.) If there are directions, they are not conveniently accessible. I don't recommend using InterPal, but if this didn't convince you, I think that the other reviews here will.

I registered to this site 8 years ago, to make contact with foreigners and improving my language skill by messages, then later I started to look for more serious friendships or relationships.
The first huge problem of this site is that everybody uses it for different reasons, so very hard to find somebody you are looking for, some uses it only for language, very few people for looking for postal or email pen-pals, and most of them are just registering because they are BORED. You write to them, they reply to you, then you get ignored after 2-3 messages in the best case (as male), if they even read your message at all.
The worst are the "friend" colletors, who just want to feel popular, but after few messages, they won't even remember you exist.

BUT THIS SITE USES LOG IN BOTS
What does it mean? LONG DEAD ACCOUNTS ARE LOGGED IN BY AUTOMATED BOT so it looks like this site has more anctive users... meanwhile most of the accounts are long abandoned!!! This site is a huge lie with these fake active users, they will never read your message, because they are not even active evne if it seems so!
How I know it? Because I had an other account I left for many years, and once I saw that it was logged in not long ago... no it was not hacked!!! Their site makes these accounts look like active!
The easiest way to spot those account, if they were logged in not long ago, but their newest photo was uploaded 3-10 years ago, or they don't even have anything written on their profile.

I can tell you I have sent at least 1000 first messages on this site through 8 years (even if I took breaks from it), and at least 800 messages were never read by the users at all. From the aprox. 1000 messages, I only found 2 girls, I was keeping in touch longer than 1 month, that is all!
And through the 8 years, I have received maximum (!) 10 first messages from other users, just because I am guy and not from a popular country...

I found a much much better site for pen-pals, but I won't tell its name, better if less people know about it, it means less weirdos for that site.

NEVER EVER REGISTER TO THIS SITE UNLESS YOU ARE ATTRACTIVE WOMAN AND YOU WANT ATTENTION, because most of the real girls only use it for that, promoting their social accounts, or hoping for bigger attention or finding their sugar daddy or sugar boy, who will save them from their poor country.

Be careful most of the Chinese account are fake and scammers. Japanese are ignorant, they won't reply to you unless you are from US, UK or Australia. Girls from Indo-China and Philippines and Russia or Ukraine are usually hardcore golddiggers.

A parte qualche utente rompiscatole che ho bloccato, finora ho avuto sia esperienze positive che negative. Ho notato che le conversazioni nella maggior parte dei casi sono frugali, gli utenti sono tutti annoiati e perditempo. Molti ragazzi postano foto di nudi per attirare le ragazze, altri invece ti spingono ad utilizzare i social, e spariscono nel giro di alcuni giorni. Altri ancora ti fanno domande un po' imbarazzanti e troppo personali. Secondo me se volete migliorare le lingue a livello parlato, meglio farlo in proprio (esempio parlare da soli, o trovarsi un tandem in persona tramite le università). Comunque sia, è uno dei pochi siti del settore che si può definire gratuito.

Interpals is full of perverts and other weirdos. On Interpals it doesn't take much more than being a young woman to trigger hordes or perverted and apparently sex starved older men from Turkey, India and Korea to message you crude words. "Hey baby" "I love you baby", "I want to marry you baby", "Let's have sex baby", "Do you like big d*ck baby?", etc, etc... We are talking about hundreds of messages of such sort every single day on Interpals if you fall into my demographic. Lol I don't even have a sexy profile pic or anything, it's just my face cropped a my neck but these guys are relentless. This problem has apparently existed for years, I find threads on the internet complaining about the same issue they date back from 2009. And Interpals admins have done nothing to stop it, reporting people doesn't help, they never get banned. Interpals is anything but a penpals website, lots of men are only there to meet girls and have sex. Do something about it! When people get reported for harassment their account should be terminated, multiple reports on different accounts and their IP should be banned.

With the slightest joke to the political left or center or a funny soft edgy joke you will get flagged with harassment and banned by softly triggered people the ones that always get their way in society. Terrible waste of time since your account will be removed and you will lose all your virtual friends just like that. And the site totally doesn't care. btw the site has like +50 spyware! You can dissable them in a browser so not in tha phone app! They are probably foing AI human studies on you!
Let's face it if you never spice up a conversations it goes nowhere if you had experience with women! Some women abuse to flag or perhaps fake profiles with a female photo, yet if you are a man you can never flag back or it will rebounce on yourself and you will flag yourself. This site is set up so you would be threated like a dog of pavlov, to condition you in their ways.

Rispetto a tante recensioni negative, io la penso diversamente. Sono su Interpals da anni, nonostante una breve pausa fatta qualche anno fa. Questo sito mi ha permesso di conoscere ragazze e ragazzi stranieri con cui fare amicizia e allo stesso tempo praticare l'inglese e provare ad imparare nuove lingue! Certo, se si utilizza come se fosse Tinder é ovvio che vi troverete male. Ma Interpals va oltre il semplice sito d'incontri, perciò se entrate con quell'intento avrete vita breve all'interno del sito.

Inoltre le poche volte in cui ho avuto bisogno di assistenza, ho sempre ricevuto puntuale supporto. Poi, per carità, ognuno ha il proprio modo di vivere/vedere le cose ma secondo me vale la pena dargli una possibilità.

If I could have done zero I would have. Racist clueless moderators/ customer support. On their slow app they set a default location for you based on your race. Watch how much you've declined recently.

Ive been using interpals on and off for 3 years, that site is literally anything but language exchange.

In the time ive been on there i havent had a single decent conversation with anyone. you either get ignored (if your not a 17 year old girl or korean dude) or get scam or spam messages, and on the rare occasion you actually get a decent conversation you get ghosted after about a month, like clockwork eveytime. the whole atmosphere on there is toxic and people get bored very easily.

site is prone to major crashes every few months which bricks the site for a few days, moderators are absolutely useless, banning decent accounts while leaving perverts and bots active.

dont even get me started on the toxic koreaboo problem that most of these web sights now have, its disgusting and cringe.

TLDR: go into it with low expectations or better yet, not at all

I have used the website on and off for about 4 years. This is still an up and coming social website with much more potential left in the tank. Plus it already rocks as is.
I will try to outline the pros and cons as best I can.
I have made many friends and enjoyed quite a few conversations as there are some very smart people on there. You just have to look around. It's userbase is growing fast. Perhaps most importantly is that this is a smaller company unlike the giant monopolies such as Facebook/Twitter/etc.
It does have scammers but just be smart. If something seems fishy like they look really attractive but have a very limited/fake profile or they want to make some kind of strange business deal or ask you something you don't like just ignore them.
It has people of all different walks of life from all different parts of the world. You can search for keywords, set age, pick countries, search for flirts, upload pictures, and customize your profile in surprisingly sophisticated ways. It's a website that has grown a lot since it first started, and will likely continue to. It's a great facebook alternative.

chat very slow to update if anyone actually responds to you.

rest of site prone to periodic cloudflare glitches every few months that puts it out of action for a couple of hours.

also frequented by chinese scammers trying to lure you over to questionable dating websites.

Don't bother signing up. Signed up with the intention of making friends all over the world to do snail mail with.This site is nothing more than perverts and strange people trying to contact you, and wanting to chat over insignificant, and inappropriate things!
Tried deleting account, and have to wait a further 7 days until I'm allowed to deactivate. Have contacted support, to see if my account can be deleted sooner, but no correspondence as of yet.
Most profiles are fake!
Un secure, dangerous site.

It used to be that men could get a couple of dozen messages after sending out 100. Now nothing. Plus I am tired of hearing the shaming language from women and weirdo men complaining about quote unquote "perverts". Pleasure is a human need. And especially women want to trick people into thinking they don't want WhatsApp or whatever. The women want to use men for attention on there and not give anything in return. Plus there is more men on the site than ever before which explains why men don't get responses anymore. The women are literally rejecting men left and right now. Being ultra picky. Interpals sucks big time. I wish there was a site leaning in the favor of men and not women.

I definitely wouldn't recommend Interpals to anyone. This page has very little to do with any language exchange. It is more like a dating or even erotic site, full of perverts, scammers and other time-wasting folks. Many profiles seem phony as well. People (especially guys) constantly keep asking you to give them your whatsapp number or skype id- as if you couldn't chat over interpals. Of course if you refuse to switch your conversation to abovementioned apps they instantly go silent. I guess this shows clearly enough what their real intentions are- to lure you out of interpals and try to talk you into engaging in some indecent activity with them. That happened like zillions of times to me. Over the five years I had been there I blacklisted about 800 users. For now I just gave up using that site as I don't feel like being upset by another horny guy from India or Algeria who wants to be "friends" with me and floods me with questions like whether am I single or do I live alone. Moreover, the site admins seem to favour those pervs as they rarely discipline them by blocking their account and don't even raise a finger when you report those disgusting individuals. If you really want to improve your foreign language skills, join a course at a laguage school or do it by yourself. Online sites like interpals are one big crap.

This site is appallingly run. I really can't see it lasting. The software interface is awful, things don't work, and the moderation is hopeless.

This is a very disappointing penpal site. First of all, a great many of the profiles here are fake - there is perhaps 1 genuine profile in a 100 - I'm NOT kidding. I wonder if the site puts these profiles up itself. Anyway, these fake profiles never answer you, which means you spend a lot of time on the site sending out messages that are never answered. Frustrating. And meaningless.

Combine these fake profiles with the horde of genuinely obnoxious asian guys who swarm all over the site looking for sex chats from girls, and whose profiles are never deleted.

Then there's the fact that people seem oddly illiterate on interpals - it's a 'penpal' site, but no one there seems to know how to write letters! As a matter of fact, in using interpals I began to get the feeling that the human race was forgetting how to read or write! I'm NOT kidding.

Finally, while the moderators tolerate a horde of sex-mad asian guys on the site, I have had the profiles of good and genuine friends randomly banned on the site. This was horrible - fortunately, I had their email addresses, so I did not lose them as friends, but I don't have to tell you how frustrating and confusing the experience was for them. Knowing there are hordes of obnoxious people on the site whose profiles are NOT banned only makes things worse.

Interpals is not a good site. They will delete your account in a heartbeat without any explanation and without ever, ever, giving you a reason for the deletion. Even people who have had their accounts for YEARS have willy-nilly had their accounts deleted or suspended by moderators without any reason or comment. Without any by your leave at all. The site is NOT a good one. Steer clear of this site if you want to make honest to good friendships. There are better ones out there online.

summerdreaming- Nick men on this site, which at first glance seems very friendly and good person. but he gains the confidence of women all over the world, travels to these countries, lives free of charge with these women, and then morally humiliates them. Never trust this person!