Online Safety Dating Tips
By OSAblogger on May 10, 2009 in Dating Security
With Internet access getting more social and people having less time to socialize due to more time spent at the office and commuting to and from work, more and more singles are using Internet dating in the hope of meeting the love of their lives. Online dating may also be an nice way to meet a man for a woman not confident enough to start flirting. Some people may claim Internet dating is really dangerous, but is it as dangerous as meeting a stranger at a bar in the flesh? Here are a few lifesaving tips from woman to woman for online Internet dating enjoyment.
It is very easy to pretend to be someone else when chatting online with a person you have never met and even though you are unlikely to meet a serial killer or a psychopath, the handsome single guy you have befriended online may actually be a married man hoping to cheat on his wife or a gigolo hoping to meet and deceive a rich lady. In some rare instances, he may actually be who he claims he is.
When you meet a stranger in the restaurant, at a bar or at the gym, if you strike a conversation and want to meet again, usually the guy asks for the girl’s phone number. Do you totally want to entrust a stranger with your home or mobile phone number? Internet dating services provide you with the possibility or communicating anonymously: you do not have to reveal your address, phone number or email address if you want to stay in contact with the other person; you can even use a pseudonym instead of your real name; and if he turns out to be a psychopath, you always have the possibility to put a ban on his contacting you through the dating website provider.
Online dating sites allow you to get to know someone before taking the risk of meeting that person in the flesh; of course this is open to some inaccuracies, but just the same as an old balding man would describe himself as a handsome, mature-looking man, you can use this to your advantage by describing yourself as a voluptuous woman if you are a little overweight or even as a slim or slender woman if you haven’t been blessed with a womanly figure. The photograph that you choose to display on your profile should of course limit the amount of lies you can tell about your physical appearance. Online conversations will reveal some of your contact’s personality, and physical appearances should take a backseat as most long-lasting relationships are based more on the compatibility of two people’s personalities than on whether two persons are attractive or not.
If you use online dating services in the hopes of meeting a husband, a time will come when you will eventually decide to meet one of your online contacts for real. It is highly recommended to arrange a meeting in a public place, such as a bar, restaurant or coffee shop, and if you don’t feel too confident about this, try and choose a place were you can spy on your date unnoticed, or even bring a friend who can keep an eye on how the date is going; as a woman you can afford the luxury of arriving a little late so you do have time to decide whether or not you really want to spend an hour or so with the man in front of you.
Online dating has its extreme dangers, but so has regular dating as psychopaths and serial killers exist offline as well as online. It is always worth taking a little extra care when dating and online dating websites provide their users with that extra care, by making it possible not to reveal any details to your online contacts that could be used by online fraudsters and predators. Whether you are dating online or offline, have fun and stay safe.
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