Dangers of Online Dating

News 10 -- July 28 -- For many single people the question isn't who's dating online, but who isn't?  Kane says she tried Internet dating but decided it was too risky. She says dishonest online daters forced her to go back to more old fashioned methods to meet men. "The more important thing is to check them out before you just go and meet them," said CyberCuse owner Glenn Santa. "I think that's where people get in a lot of trouble they see their picture they read the profile and they say hey let's meet tomorrow and that's dangerous that's really dangerous and we're finding that out now." Match.com says no dating is 100 percent safe and suggests you protect your anonymity until you feel comfortable meeting someone.  They also recommend doing an Internet search on any potential match.

Mark Brooks: All this talk of how dangerous online dating is.  It's still the safest venue for meeting people if used wisely.  The industry is working to improve safety options.

Comments

[ashley webber]

hi my name is ashley webber, and i wanted to say that i think that online dating is dangerous because they can be way younger or older than you expect... the dangers and risk became way more that you would expect in 2006 i would never particapate in online dating because i would never want to put my self in that kind of sitution. to the point were i would be rape or in killed you know what i mean....lol

[L. A. Stone]

I just discovered a great new safety tool for those who make use (or who are
contemplating such) of any of the online dating sites, of which there must now be
thousands available on the Internet. Only a few of the most major such sites offer any
type of psychological testing and/or background informational searches to be
accomplished on the users of the sites. Compatibility testing and matching really does
not help filter out those who are attempting to make use of the sites based upon
scamming, criminal, or otherwise harmful motivations. Reviews of the only couple sites
that offer users some degree of criminal background history checking and unfortunately
these checks have been reviewed as being too limited in scope; generally only limited to
the police records in a single State or else useless as the focused upon individual is
making use of an alias or pseudo name in his/her communications with the site.

Just very recently, a new approach has been developed that addresses this very problem.
A psychologist who has an extraordinary background in psychological test development,
as well as in security related integrity or honesty testing. This psychologist has developed
a rather short/quick psychological test, based upon well-established and sound
psychological test construction logic, that is designed to assess almost a dozen problem
areas that are highly associated with personal integrity/honesty. This 72-item,
multiple-choice test, the Personal Security Standards Psychological Questionnaire
(PSSPQ), has recently gone through a rather thorough testing when used to screen or
otherwise evaluate the general integrity of persons who were attempting to contact
potential ‘dates’ through the services offered by online dating sites. The PSSPQ is now
commercially available to users of online dating sites. An extremely complete (and quite
lengthy) description of the PSSPQ when used for individual evaluation purposes is
available on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/psspqdatingtest.htm . On this
PSSPQ website, many helpful links are provided that greatly aid a reader in
understanding and evaluating the PSSPQ, its developer, as well as the many dangers that
face anyone making use of the online dating sites.

[L. A. Stone]

just discovered a great new safety tool for those who make use (or who are contemplating
such) of any of the online dating sites, of which there must now be thousands available on
the Internet. Only a few of the most major such sites offer any type of psychological
testing and/or background informational searches to be accomplished on the users of the
sites. Compatibility testing and matching really does not help filter out those who are
attempting to make use of the sites based upon scamming, criminal, or otherwise harmful
motivations. Reviews of the only couple sites that offer users some degree of criminal
background history checking and unfortunately these checks have been reviewed as being
too limited in scope; generally only limited to the police records in a single State or else
useless as the focused upon individual is making use of an alias or pseudo name in his/her
communications with the site.

Just very recently, a new approach has been developed that addresses this very problem.
A psychologist who has an extraordinary background in psychological test development,
as well as in security related integrity or honesty testing. This psychologist has developed
a rather short/quick psychological test, based upon well-established and sound
psychological test construction logic, that is designed to assess almost a dozen problem
areas that are highly associated with personal integrity/honesty. This 72-item,
multiple-choice test, the Personal Security Standards Psychological Questionnaire
(PSSPQ), has recently gone through a rather thorough testing when used to screen or
otherwise evaluate the general integrity of persons who were attempting to contact
potential ‘dates’ through the services offered by online dating sites. The PSSPQ is now
commercially available to users of online dating sites. An extremely complete (and quite
lengthy) description of the PSSPQ when used for individual evaluation purposes is
available on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/psspqdatingtest.htm . On this
PSSPQ website, many helpful links are provided that greatly aid a reader in
understanding and evaluating the PSSPQ, its developer, as well as the many dangers that
face anyone making use of the online dating sites.