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Online Dating Safety Tips January 3, 2007

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How to avoid online dating risks

Online dating has become a popular service nowadays. In fact, so many people all over the world, mostly singles, are members of various online dating services to find their perfect match.

You can make online dating even safer by sticking to a few rules. These will also help you have a much more enjoyable experience. Enjoying yourself is just as important as finding a partner.
1. In your profile, it is good not to include detailed personal information, such as your personal home address, telephone number, or email address. Dating sites, especially the reputable ones, make sure that all their members are safe. Some do it by checking the criminal records of their members, some authomatically deleting any detailed information in your personal profile.

2. It would be good if you know more about the person you just met online before giving him or her any personal information about you. Takesome time in knowing him or her first before setting up a date with the person.

3. Never be rushed into doing anything. Someone who likes you, and starts to care about you will respect the speed you want to get toknow them. If someone ever tries to push you into doing anything like meeting them when you don’t want to you should end all contact with them. Get to know them on the phone first, this is the next step to finding out what they are like.

4. Don’t put false information in your profile or a fake photograph. If you want people to be honest with you too, be genuine in your information. Honestly in the best policy.

5. Your first offline date with someone should be in a public place preferably during the day. A coffee shop is a good place for that first date. It’s nice and quite but busy so you have people around you. Tell someone where are you going, and what time you’ll be back. Arrange your own transport so you don’t have to rely on a lift home or back to work. Have a limit time on your date, and stick to it. They don’t have to know your intentions plus if you leave earlier than expected it will leave them wanting more.

6. It might be good to have an email account setup in free email sites like Yahoo or Hotmail. Give this email address to online users who want to have your email, instead of your main email address. In case you don’t want a person to contact you again, then at least your main mail address is safe and free from his or her emails.

7. Be wary of people who are lying to you. Be carefull of people who:

- want to meet up with instantly and pressures you

- bug you to give your personal contact details when they themselves don’t want to give you their personal contact information

- are not consistent in giving you information about their martial status, age, employment, among others

-avoid answering questions that are reasonable directly

8. If somebody is bothering you already, stop sending him or her messages immediately.

Online dating is fun, but you have to be aware that it is also has safety risks as well.

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