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Some Online Dating Safeguards

Some Online Dating Safeguards

Throughout time, no matter how two people meet, what era they met in or what part of the world they first stumbled upon each other, people have routinely done wrong by those that they have cared for. Husbands have cheated on wives, wives have cheated on husbands, friends have turned on friends and everything in between. While these people may not make up the majority of the population, they exist, and online dating is no different.

A recent article through ABC News detailed some methods for protecting yourself against people met online, in person or anywhere else. Instead of a personal investigator hired to document the movements of a potential mate, companies like Intelius.com and USSearch.com offer online background checks to confirm or deny information such as age, income, marriage status and background.

Searches range in cost, complexity and scope and depend greatly on the type of information sought. Criminal records, for example, often cost a little bit more and can take a bit more time than a basic background information request. You can hunt down everything from financial details to possible aliases used in the past.

Online daters have been solid customers most likely because the Internet offers all of us a way to hide behind the computer screen if we need to. While you may have a good inkling that SingleMom93 is a divorced mother of two, the barrier the computer represents has kept a lot of people from trusting online descriptions completely.

The fact of the matter is that liars don't need a computer screen to lie and no matter where you meet someone, there is a possibility, albeit small, that they are lying to you in one way or another to tell you what you want to hear. Companies like Intelius.com and USSearch.com simply offer a way to be sure, online dater or not.

Posted by eDatingCentral.com Jan 25, 2007 3:29 pm

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