Ten Essential Online Dating Safety Tips:

1. Follow your personal instinct
Each of us has a native instinct. It seems to be like an inner warming about the situations that happen around us. The same thing happens when you meet a new person in your life. It may be either online dating or a simple life situation. When we speak about the first circumstances, your instinct begins to work from the very beginning, for example when you read the profile’s nickname, then the personal notes, afterwards online conversations, phone conversations, webcam vision, and in the end meeting face to face. If you feel something strange about you partner or you don’t feel mutual understanding, don’t ignore your inner voice, just find out the dilemma and try to take the right decision!

2. Don’t Afford Personal Information Too Soon
It’s not the best idea to give your home phone number or your full name from the beginning of the communication. Let him/her to discover at first your personality, your qualities, and if the person really means well, then he/she will not insist on asking your personal details. Otherwise nowadays it’s very easy to find out a lot of information by the home phone number or the full name, like the home address, income information, work place, and even the value of your house. So, it’s better to guard your personal information until your personal instinct tells you.

3. Use a Cell Phone or Call Another Computer
When you really do want to have a phone discussion, don’t give the home phone number first. You may use a cell phone number or just use the internet and messengers’ call service such as skype, yahoo msn, icq and others.

4. Use a Free Email Account
Don’t use your formal email address because it may give too much information about you. Make a free email account special with this purpose. You may use mail.ru, email.ro, rambler.ru, yahoo.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com, and many others. Your task is not to give any personal information, including the full name on this account. In this way your safety is ensured from this point of view.

5. Look out of Married People
It’s better for you to know that about 30% of people using online dating are married. So you may probe them in order to find out whether they are married or not. Be very careful because they may go very far in your relationships.

6. Ask for a Recent Photo
It’s absolutely normal to ask the person you are talking to for a recent photo, because in case you want to meet this person, it would be better for you to know beforehand what does he/she looks like. Beside this while you are talking to the person, you automatically combine the physical appearance with inner features, and you form like a whole portrait, in this case is very important to find the right balance because nobody is perfect from all points of view. Sometimes the person may have a wrong photo or some untrue information on the profile. Most of the times it’s not a good sign, but it’s not a rule, and some of these people have good intentions. Maybe they don’t want to be recognized by others because of some reasons.

7. Cute questions
If you put your questions in a clever way, you may conclude some character features of the person you are talking to. For example you may find out whether the person is patient or not; amenable or not very much. You may pay attention to the questions they ignore if there are some. These are questionable characteristics that tell you some more information which you can’t ask directly.

8. Get a Good Security
It seems that some online dating services offer “background checks” and when you want to sign up for such a service it may seem easier to let your guard down. But laws differ in numerous states and there are even such states where checks can’t be efficaciously accomplished. Because people are too little informed, criminals and law-breakers may easily get in. Never let your guard down.

9. Use Paid Online Dating Services
In case of paid services, there are left some personal data, credit card numbers or something else depending on the agency. Free online dating services give more opportunities to dangerous people, impostors which you have to beware of.

10. About Your First Meeting
That’s the most exciting moment and the decisive one. First of all you should select a public place to meet and to make sure that a good friend or a member of your family knows the place and the person you are meeting. You should establish together the place for the first meeting and both of you should agree. It would be better to have your own transportation if it’s possible. Don’t tell too much information about yourself at the first meeting, and if you want to continue let a reason for the next meeting in the end. At this meeting you will discover much more information than you will have expected about this person.

P.S. Following these tips you will make your online dating more successful and safer. Regarding the fact that over 100 people a day get married as a result of online dating, you have great chances to find your partner through online dating agencies.

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