Really, I'm Not Nuts!

MARK BROOKS - Dec 17 - Just in case you'd though I'd gone loopy, I thought I'd explain what happened with the Oct 30th article in Venture Beat titled 'Online daters, be warned! 1 in 10 profiles are scams.' I was appalled to find that they attributed an anchor quote in the article to me, stating that it was sourced from my quote in a recent Glamour magazine article. Que?!  This was a clear misquote and I let Christina Farr at Venture Beat know. She immediately corrected her article to quote me as saying “On some dating sites, as many as one out of 10 profiles is a scammer,” which is true to my original quote and what appeared in the Glamour magazine article. I stand by this quote. However, most dating sites do a stellar job fighting abuse and keeping their user-experiences true. Some don't. Some even use fakesters. That's a problem we need to address in order to protect the reputation of our little industry.