Online Dating Safety Tips

Worried about staying safe online? I go over some tips to keep yourself safe online.
Hey everybody, welcome to this week’s video. Weve been doing a lot of videos over the past couple weeks and over the past couple months about how to write a good dating profile, how to have good dating photos and how to message correctly as well, but today I want to talk about online safety because. The first thing you want to know when you dating online is that you want to protect yourself and you want to make sure no one steals your identity, no one takes money from you and so forth. In addition to looking for another person online, you want to be protecting yourself. So I am going to be going over some safety tips that are going to help you out when it comes to online dating. So the first safety tip is that if you’re on social media such as facebook, twitter or linked in and say you are using a username on twitter, you want to make sure that when you choose a username when you’re writing your profile or signing up use a username you’ve never used elsewhere. Because if someone sees your username and wants to get some more information about you they can just search that username and you’re twitter account could pop up. If you’re on twitter and Facebook you want to make sure you check your privacy settings because you don’t want any person just to go look at it.
On Facebook you can narrow down your privacy settings so only your friends can find you, oh sorry friends can add you or only certain friends can see certain photos. If you also spend some time in the privacy settings you can also make it pretty difficult to find yourself on Facebook. On Twitter you can lock your account so only people you’ve approved can follow you so you can actually get a sense of everybody whose reading your tweets. That’s really important too. Also when you’re writing your profile you should be a little bit on the generic side when it comes to what you do for a living as well as you know where you might live in the City or you can omit that information all together. For example if you’re a Doctor or Lawyer you shouldn’t say at such and such clinic. You could just say I am a Doctor and just leave it at that. It’s the same too if you’re writing a message back and forth to somebody and they’re asking oh what part of the City do you live in you could just say Oh I live in the south side. That way you’re not giving them too much information. Another really important thing to keep your eye too is when it comes to people messaging you. if really highly educated people are messaging you. People who have their PhD’s, or maybe a Doctor, a Laywer or Engineer.s Their English should reinforce. If someone has all those degrees or a fancy education they should be able to write pretty well. If they’re not, it might mean the person you’re talking to is not who they say they are. A lot of scammers are obviously from countries like Nigeria so obviously they’re English is not that good. Another red flag you should look out for is whether people’s profiles disappear and reappear and keep going back and forth. What’s probably happening is that people are probably reporting those peoples profiles as fakes or scammers. So they just create a new one.
That’s really important too. And I think the last tip I am going to leave you with, or the second last tip is that when people start asking you for money right away that’s a big red flag right there. When it comes time to actually go on your first date, you should really review the communication you’ve had with that person and you should see if they’ve been answering the questions you’ve been asking them. So if you’ve been asking them questions just to get them better and they’re obviously not answering them or they are dodging them, that’s a big red flag to me and that should maybe be a reason you don’t go on a date with that person. So that does it for this week, hit the subscribe button below and I’ll see you next week. Thanks
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