Online Dating Safety Tips

Your personal safety is of the utmost importance. Please protect it. Here are some online dating safety tips to help you stay safe:

Personal Information

1. Don’t share your personal information (email, phone, SSN, or other identifying information) until you feel comfortable doing so. Be particularly wary if someone asks persistently for your personal info. Never post personal contact info in your profile.

2. Never give away financial information to people you meet online, including credit card or bank information. Never send money to someone you meet online, especially by wire transfer.

Offline Encounters

3. If you decide to go on a date:

always meet in public. (Please report any date proposals for dates in non-public places.)

be sure a friend or family member knows when and where you are going.

Don’t drink too much.

Bring your phone.

Don’t get in your date’s car

Trust your Instincts

4. Trust your instincts. If you feel uncomfortable, unsafe, or threatened, stop communicating with the person. You have no obligation to continue communicating.

5. In a rare moment of brilliance, match.com has this to say, "Lust at first sight is alive and well, but love is, generally, an acquired feeling."

Report suspicious behavior

Please immediately to us report any suspicious activity, behavior, or content.

You can email theteam@howaboutwe.com. HowAboutWe is a community - please help make it better and safer for everyone.