Feb
Online dating tips
It’s that time of year again when everyone is full of festive cheer and the chances of meeting someone new are high. Here are 8 festive tips to assist your online dating experience.
1. Reframe from providing personal details on your dating profile page.
Therefore, in the initial stages of online dating keep your phone number and all your personal information to yourself. Once you get to know your date you can determine how much information you would like to provide.
Think of it this way….you wouldn’t put your phone number in the local paper or walk around in a t-shirt with it written on – so don’t put it on your profile page!
Remember, if someone discovers your real first and last name they can potentially track you down on social websites.
2. Never give out your phone number until you truly know someone
Like you, we understand that your phone number is your most personal possession and that’s why when it comes to speaking to prospective dates on the phone the team at Safe Dating Websites recommend that you create a nickname or “paging tag” to use on dating sites – or anywhere else on or offline come to that; in a club, in a pub or anywhere you want to speak to someone but don’t want them to have your number on day 1. This can be created through an anonymous phone service such as Paginglist.com. Alternatively, you can create an automatically generated phone number from Skype.
Using an anonymous phone service such as Paginglist.com means you never need to give out your number again, it works on any phone, you don’t need to be in front of a computer to make calls, it’s free to create a tag, costs nothing to receive a call and only costs roughly the same as regular prepay to make a call, calls made never appear on your bill – and best of all you at all times have absolute control as to who can and who can’t call you!
So if someone turns out to be a person you’d rather not stay in touch with – you just delete them from your friends list and they can’t call you again – ever!