Buzz50 - www.buzz50.com

Best social site for 50s plus among the many I have tried. Sadly, it is now closed. Review only allowed yes or no on recommendation. But if site was still around would say yes. Easy to find posts and use the forum.

As from February 2024,Buzz 50 will be permanently closed down.

I have been on Buzz for over ten years. It has been a life line when I joined as I was very sick, and I can see that many members have been here over a decade as well and feel just the same. I love the friendly and warm atmosphere. The fact that people can discuss any serious discussion on threads with respect and courtesy. You have all range of topics from light hearted funny banter to serious or controversial discussions. Admins and mods work round the clock to ensure that the site stays free of tricksters, rude or bad people. So as long as you abide by the terms and conditions you signed , you will for sure enjoy that site which is free for all. Well done Buzz50. Keep the good work.

Private messages are usually people trying to hit you up that are married. Even if you put it in your profile that you are not interested in married people. The chat rooms that I was really interested in are just full of people in their cliques. Means that if you are not a regular in there and try to keep shoving your way in....most of them have been in there for several years and have their cliques, they are not interested in a newbie. BTDT so I know what I am talking about. It's too bad, thought they would have learned by now.

I still read the forums but don't post, make the necessary changes Buzz50!

Today I was going to post, decided not to.

Bring back fun please. STOP the senseless banning and continual warning messages from the moderator, you don't need to do that as steady as you do. You might get some sort of pleasure from it all, but we the members do not. Moderation is overly rigid, tailgating members at your every whim is rude, and does not make for what could be a much better place to spend some time. Can't you see your own site is failing bit by bit. Just take a good look. It's as clear as fine polished glass, make the changes, but will you.

This site has gone to the dogs. The rooms used to be full of chatters with 3 or 4 rooms being used. There is just a few chatters now at odd times of the day or evening and sometimes they don't even chat which is off putting. This site needs to stop banning for little or no reason. The site also needs to be more welcoming and less warning messages sent out. I have been a member for over two years and made some friends but they have either left because they got a stiff warning message from a hitler moderator who now seems to run the chat rooms or they don't come into the chat rooms because the place is mostly empty. It's about time the site went back to how it was a couple of years ago when the rooms were full of happy chat and jokes. It's a graveyard now.

I had been talking with some very nice people on the site, but hadn't accessed the site in many days or weeks. When I decided to see what was going on there and to talk to some friends I had made, I was not able to open the site. Instead, I got a message that my IP address had been banned. I had never had any trouble with anyone on the site, however, every once in a while, would see that someone I had been talking to had been banned. There was never any reason given. I don't feel the site is safe, and will not use it again, even if I can.

This site does not feel right or even safe. The people who run it are only interested in making money and keeping the number of members up, no matter what.

When I complained about a man telling me to go and pleasure myself whilst thinking about him, I was told that they would keep an eye on him.

I also blocked him and told him so, and realised that he kept looking at my profile. Told Buzz about it and was told that he probably thought I was bluffing and wondering why I was not answering his messages. Apparently, when you block someone, their messages do not get to your inbox but the blocked sender doe not know that and does not know he has been blocked.

However, when I told Buzz that I was not happy about uploading my picture if he could still look at my profile, I was told there was an option for me to stop seeing who had looked at my profile!!!!!! really??? That's supposed to make me feel better??

I must point out that my profile was very clear and said that I was only on the site to have a friendly chat and was not interested in any sort of romantic adventure.

Another thing, I was sent a friend request by one of the Buzz team. I thought that was a bit odd as we didn't even have any chat prior to the request. I accepted only to realise after a couple of message that her only aim was to make me buy some credits for the 121 chat!

Three weeks ago whilst looking through buzz50 forum, I stumbled upon a bunch of confidential Admin files. These files were of a confidential nature and included some members personal email addresses as well as an IP address. The files related to discussions held between three Administrators about various members of buzz50 as well as chats about their own moderators. These discussions did not make very nice reading and the fact that they were displayed on the Internet for anyone to see was obviously an oversite by the Administrators. They have since all been deleted, but not before I for one and others have read them and taken screenshots of some pretty damming remarks.

Amongst other things, the files showed messages from members to admin complaining about other buzzers - which were then discussed in detail. The Administrators even made bad remarks about their own moderator team. It also shows that admin read members private 121 chats which are paid for by members and supposedly confidential.

It seems to me the Administrators have no respect for their members and very little respect for their moderators. So with that being the case, I will not ever be returning to the site and would strongly advise others to question whether buzz50 is a site to be trusted.

After being a member for just over 5 yrs on this site, I went to go into chat and found I was banned. For what I was banned for and what rule I broke, I have no idea. I was able to access the rules of chat and could not find any of them that would apply to anything I had done in chat. There was no arguments, no assaults on anyone, nothing that I could find where I broke any rule. After 5 yrs, I thought I was a solid chatter who often encouraged others to join and chat. However, this has come to an end. There were a couple things that are suspicious to me, however. First, Buzz offers a Private Messenger that you pay for yearly. I had payed for this service. A long time chatter asked me for the email address of a moderator that had just quit Buzz. I gave it to her in the ¨Private Messenger¨. I have now learned and I must also add something I was told long ago from two former moderators that Buzz Admin reads all messages to include the private ones. The new moderator that took over for the one I provided the information on had not been in Buzz for a year. She is very accusatory and always asking questions when you make a statement. I had a feeling she just didnt like me. Its even possible I was banned for political reasons. I am from the north, she is in the south. I know of another who does not go into chat because she feels the same way. The moderator that quit, was a long time chatter and one of the best. He quit for his own reasons whatever they may be. Be he emailed me saying he left. I told this in the room that I had received the email. I had no other information. Is it possible this is what got me banned? I sent an email about why I was banned and got no answer. I am not the first for this to happen. And there are many who were banned the same way. They have all found another home to chat. Chat meant so much to me. I was in that room about a week after my husband passed. It was my socialization. I have met others who chatted in the room and made many friends. However, admin has ruined the site. They just ban people for any reason. All you have to do is be disliked or say something that someone doesnt like. Since the site is administered from the United Kingdom, there are differences the dont understand from other countries. Language being the major one. If you say something innocently they may take it as vulgar. Such as the word Poof. I said once, ¨and poof she was gone¨. The system would not let me type the word. I have been told there is one person in particular who is from the UK that consistently complains due to the chat even when its innocent. She complains she is being picked on. I never did anything like this as I am a supporter of LGBTQ community and persons. And I really never seen any chat that should have offended. But, she complained all the time. Buzz is fun until..... It takes the blues away, until.....And it is changing. I freely tell people in the other chat sites about this experience. I will just say, beware of your privacy as it is not private even when you pay for it. And find other sites to make friends. Or go out and find legitimate things to do such as volunteering or attending social events.