Instructions and Features

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About MyFreeCams.com

MyFreeCams.com is an online webcam network connecting men and women from all over the world through high-speed live video chat with full audio support. Here is what makes us different:

Our commitment to our models. We collaborate with our models as partners and pay them much more than any other site.
Our commitment to our members. We make sure that all of our members are completely satisfied. From small technical support issues to developing new features on our site, we are here to listen to our members and make them happy.
Our commitment to technology. We are computer geeks. We have built a website that is BY FAR the most technologically advanced webcam site on the Internet, with hundreds of original and innovative features that allow a much more personal interactive experience.
Our commitment to FREE. This site offers more free features to our guests and members than any other webcam site on the Internet. The ONLY thing you can choose to pay for is the private time of the models.

Creating an account

When you first arrive, you will be granted only Guest privileges. This means that every time you enter a chat room, you will be given a random nickname like "Guest1234" and your font in the chat room will be very small.

Unfortunately, guests sometimes cause problems in chat rooms, so models are often reluctant to chat with them and have the ability to Mute All Guests which unfairly hurts the nice guests who are just getting to know our site.

So the obvious thing to do is to make a free member account.

Basic members

All you need to do is choose your username and password, and enter your e-mail address where you will your verification link. Your username will become your nickname in future chat sessions. Your membership is free for life and you can come back any time you like and use it for free.

Once you login to your free account, you will be able to chat with the models and your font size will be bigger. You will have access to lots more features and everything is always free.

In very rare instances, maybe once or twice a year, we will send a newsletter to our members. You can opt-out of receiving it in your My Account section after you login to your new member account. We will never send any other e-mails or spam (see our Privacy Policy).

Premium members

Premium Member is just a fancy term we use to describe any member that has purchased tokens at our site at least once. So if you have ever spent money on our site, you are a premium member. There are NO additional fees or charges, its absolutely free and you will remain a premium member for life.

The best part is that you get full unlimited access to ALL of our amazing features. There are really too many to list but this page will mention many of them.

Being a premium member gives you access to EVERYTHING. Even if you choose to buy our lowest-priced bundle of tokens for $19.99, you will be instantly upgraded to a premium member for life. We guarantee you that this is the best $19.99 you will ever spend. If you disagree, Contact Support and we will refund you!

Prices and tokens

The only thing that costs money on our site are tokens that are used for private shows, group shows, spy shows, and tips. Remember, a premium membership on our site is absolutely free and granted to your account automatically with your first token purchase. You keep your premium membership forever even if you never purchase tokens again.

You can purchase tokens in various pre-determined quantities. We try to build in a discount for larger purchases but we have very little leeway since most of the money goes to the models.

Click on Purchase Tokens to see the available packages. Larger token packages will be automatically made available on your account after being a premium member in good standing on this site for several months. If you have been a member for a long time and you would like to buy tokens in larger quantities, please Contact Support and we will try to help you.

Your credit card will be billed discreetly. To see the exact wording of what will appear on your credit card statement, please see our Billing Help page.

Once you have tokens in your account, you can spend them on the models!

Money goes to the models

After expenses, nearly all of the money spent on this website goes to the models and their agents or managers, if they have any.

This is what makes us so different from our competitors. Other webcam networks pay models as low as 20% of their revenue, and then spend their money on private jets and expensive advertising campaigns.

Instead, we rely on our members and models to spread the word about this site. We generally keep our expenses as low as possible so that we are able to send the great majority of our members' spending on this site directly to the models.

Models are always our top priority. Not only do we pay them MUCH more than any other site, but we treat them with the respect that they deserve and often work hand-in-hand with them to develop new features for our site.

Reward points

For every 10 tokens you purchase, you will receive 1 reward point. As you get more reward points, certain options and features on the website will become available to your account. And while we certainly appreciate and help all our members, those members with higher levels of reward points may receive priority personal customer support for any issue that may come up.

We are constantly working on new ways for members to use reward points. Your reward points never expire and never get used up. We look forward to offering more and more features for them soon!

Reward points cannot be transferred to any other username, even if it belongs to you.

Spending tokens

Private shows

A member with tokens may click Go Private in a model's chat room or instant message window to invite a model into a Private Show, and the model may accept or decline this invitation. If the model accepts, the private show will start, and the member and model will be taken to a new private chat room.

Private shows cost 1 token per second, or 60 tokens per minute. That means that if you want to stay in private for 5 minutes, then you will need 300 tokens. A private show automatically ends when you run out of tokens. The member or model may also end it themselves any time.

What happens in a private show is strictly between the member and the model to decide. Unlike other sites, we do not require models to do specific things or follow a script. Generally speaking, most models are comfortable getting naked and fulfilling the requests of members. However, it is a good idea to send the model a private message and ask her what she is comfortable doing in a private show, before going private.

Models are real people and some are more shy than others and may want to get to know a member before getting into a private show. Everyone is different.

All of your private shows are archived to your account so you can watch them again any time you like for free. They are located in your Archives section in your Personal Menu.

Spy / Voyeur

While a model is in a private show with another member, you may have the opportunity of watching the video at only 1/3 the cost of a private session or 20 tokens per minute (1 token every 3 seconds). You will receive all of the video and audio from the private show, but you will not have access to the private chat between the model and the member in private. You may not interact with the model but only watch the action as it is being directed by another person.

Note: If the member in the private show activates our TruePrivate feature, this will prevent anyone from using our Voyeur/Spy feature to watch that show.

TruePrivate

If a member does not want others to be able to spy on his or her private show, he can activate the TruePrivate option in the My Account page, in the Private Settings section.

This will increase the cost of the private show from 60 tokens per minute to 80 tokens per minute. This increase helps offset the revenue lost by the model since no one else can pay to spy on the show.

Group shows

The Group Show feature allows 3 or more members to be in a private room simultaneously with a model.

A member can click the Group Show link above the chat room to initiate or join a Group Show request. Once at least 3 members are requesting a Group Show, the model will be invited to the group show. If she accepts, the Group Show will begin, and members will be able to join and leave at any time. The group show ends when either the last member has left, run out of tokens, or the model chooses to end it.

While in a group show, members are charged only 10 tokens per minute, or 1 token every 6 seconds. This is a very low price (half the price of even a voyeur show!), which is why members are encouraged to Tip the models in Group Shows, especially for personal requests. The site does not require members to tip a certain amount, but rather leaves this entirely up to the model.

Tips

Sending a Tip is just a way for users to quickly transfer any amount of tokens to a model.

Tips are 100% optional, they are not required in any way. Some members like to give tips after a private show, while other members prefer to give tips to a model while she is public chat for simple personal requests or just to be nice.

Please remember that tips do not change the rules for what models are allowed to do on the site, particularly in Public Chat. Tips are gifts so please do not send tips and then demand something in return, that's not fair to the models.

Just as in real life, tips cannot be reviewed or refunded.

Premium member features

Premium members get access to hundreds of features. Here are just a few...

Private messages

Premium members can send Private Messages to models or other members at any time. Simply click on the username of a model or member and then click Send Message and a private message (PM) window will open with that model. Inside that window you can chat privately, watch each other's webcam, and use other cool features.

You can also use your Online Friends menu on the right side to send messages to any of your friends or any model or member. You can even send PM's to users that are offline and they will receive them when they sign on.

Video inside PM windows

One of our favorite features is the ability to view the webcam right in the private message window, which you can do simply by clicking View Webcam at the top of the PM window. Re-size the window to change size of the video. And you can have multiple open PMs, watching different webcam feeds in each one.

MFC mail

MFC Mail is an internal e-mail system located in your personal menu which you can use to send longer messages to models and to other members. Your MFC Mail account will save all of your sent and received messages, and you are even notified when the models open and read your messages.

Color code:

Yellow: Unread
Pink: Offline Tip
Green: From an Administrator. (Official MFC Mail)

Chat images

You can insert images into chat by clicking on the image icon next to the smiley face icon, all the way on the right side of the text input box of any chat room.

Simply click on that icon and enter the URL of any image. You can also just enter the URL of the image right into the chat. For example, if you wanted to insert the Google logo, you would enter the URL http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif

You must enter the FULL address or URL, always beginning to "http://" and always ending with a proper image extension such as .GIF or .JPG or several others.

Warning: Please DO NOT post any inappropriate, pornographic, violent, offensive, or disruptive images. Please do not post pictures over and over, do not post pictures that are irrelevant, or that just disrupt the flow of the chat or annoy the members of the chat. We have added this feature so everyone can have more fun and express themselves. Please do not make us suspend your account due to abuse.

Online model notifications

We offer a feature called Online Model Notifications that will send you an alert by e-mail or SMS text message to a phone when your favorite models sign on. Simply go to the My Notifications section in your My Account page where you can set up your custom alerts. This service is absolutely free for our members; we pay the cost of sending SMS messages ourselves.

NOTE: As of March 1 2010, the SMS notifications are temporarily not working while we try to fix this issue with our telecom provider.

Sharing your own webcam

You can turn on their own webcam at any time and show it to models or other members, absolutely free. Just click the Start My Webcam link in your Personal Menu, and remember to edit your preferences in your "Personal Options" to set who is allowed to view your webcam.

Privacy Note: We are committed to protecting the privacy of our valued members. When your webcam is active, only the people that you have allowed access are able to watch you. Even the administrators of this website do NOT have access to your webcam and you are not being recorded.

If you have any problems, please read our Technical Help page on Member Webcams which contains a step by step explanation for starting and troubleshooting this feature.

Lounge

Please see our page on the Lounge.

News Feed

The News Feed is a brand new feature that we are testing out. It is pretty simple for now, and we plan to add more options to it later.

It allows any premium member or model to write a short post. Then any other premium member or model that is "listening" to them would see that post displayed on their own news feed.

General features

Profiles

Profiles is what we call the section of our website located at http://profiles.myfreecams.com. It contains the custom profiles of all of our models and members that have chosen to build their profiles. Members and models are allowed and encouraged to fill out some information about themselves and upload photos. Profile pages have their own ratings, friends, and admirers, and they are generally a lot of fun to browse.

The profile page of a member or model is always located at a URL like this one: http://profiles.myfreecams.com/Username

You can view or edit your own profile at any time by clicking the link in the top-right of your screen in your Personal Menu.

Note: Please do not post any pornographic or inappropriate material on your own profile or on the profiles of other models or members. Please do not post spam or annoying content on your profile or the profiles of others. Please do not post the same thing on multiple profiles (this is considered spam). Doing any of these things will cause your account to be suspended.

Bring a Friend

Please see our Bring a Friend page.

CamScore and Rating

After private shows of sufficient length, members are asked to rate their level of satisfaction with the performance on a scale from 0 to 10. The etiquette on the site is to rate the model a 10 unless you are unhappy in which case you can rate her anything you want. Tips of sufficient size can also be "rated" a 10 in your My Account page.

CamScore uses the model's rating as well as how many tokens she has earned plus other factors to determine where she is listed on the homepage. New models start with a CamScore of 1000 and then go up and down depending on their performance.

Model list

The Model List is the listing of models on the homepage or at the bottom of any chat room. Only online models appear on this list.

At the top of the model list, there are certain features that may help you narrow down who you may be looking for.

The Model List link brings up a text view of all models online.
The text box searches all online models by username.
The Filter/Sort link is used to change the display settings of the model list.
The Pause Updates link pauses the automatic refreshing of the list.
You may also set the number of models per page, and the current page you are browsing.

Highlighting

Yellow means the model has just logged in, slowly turns to a faded yellow and then disappears as time passes.
Pink means the model is in your Friends List.
Green means you are in this model's room.

In your online friends list, if someone is highlighted yellow it means they may be typing you a private message.