Online Dating Safety For Women
Online dating can be a fun and certainly a rewarding experience for women of all ages. Maintaining your safety while doing it is simply a combination of using common sense and exercising good judgment. Online safety rules are the same as real world safety rules.
You wouldn’t give your name, address and phone number to a strange man that you
met in a bar or on the street so you should never do that online either. Play it
safe. Get to know this man who could turn out to be Prince Charming before you
give out any information that could make it possible for him or others to trace
you. Don’t tell a stranger exactly where you work. Say that you are a legal
secretary (if that’s what you are) for a mid-sized law firm….not that you work
for Brown, Smith and Jones Attorneys-at-law. It is safe to tell him what city
you live in but you should wait to be any more specific than that until you have
been chatting and exchanging emails for awhile.
Use only the tools provided by the dating service you belong to. Most offer chat
and private email on their site. Do not give out your isp email address. If you
must give out an email address make it a free one such as Hotmail or Yahoo. Your
isp address is traceable for anyone who wants to go to the trouble.
When the time comes for you to have your first face-to-face, make that first
meeting in a public place and during day light hours. Take a friend with you or
arrange for one to call you on your cell soon after the arranged meeting.
Remember…you ARE in control so do not let anyone pressure you into revealing
more personal information than you are comfortable with revealing.