NZ Dating Safety Tips
Online dating can be a fun and certainly a rewarding experience for men and 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.
1. Get to know the man or woman who could turn out to be your lifelong partner before you give out any information that could make it possible for him or her or others to trace you.
2. 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 Lawyers. It is safe to tell him or her 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.
3. Use only the tools provided by the dating service you belong to. Most offer chat and private email on their site.
4. Do not give out your normal email address. If you must give out an email address make it a free one such as Hotmail or Yahoo or Google. Your normal email address is traceable for anyone who wants to go to the trouble.
5. When the time comes for you to have your first face-to-face, make that first meeting in a public place and during daylight hours. Take a friend with you or arrange for one to call you on your cell soon after the arranged meeting. (Yes - this applies to guys as well!)
6. Remember…you ARE in control. Do not let anyone pressure you into revealing personal information that makes you uncomfortable or that compromises your personal privacy.
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