Protecting your privacy is important no matter whether you are using a free dating site or purchasing goods or services on the internet. No site is perfectly safe, but with a combination of common sense safeguards, you will stand less chance of having your privacy compromised.

Look for Security markers

A free dating site should have a clear statement on the site about what measures the web site owner has taken to protect users of the site from unwanted invasion of their personal privacy. The available technology today makes it possible for web site owners to provide comprehensive security and privacy measures to all the users. However, the members of the dating site must take responsibility for determining that the security exists on the site they are considering. Further, the security and privacy safeguards must be in place at all times and at all levels of the site.

Use Common Sense

Use your common sense to protect your privacy always. Don’t give away your social security number, credit card numbers or other types of sensitive information. When you choose a free dating site, you don’t need to worry about the wrong person getting the information about money and accounts you hold. You should never need to provide information of this sort with a free site. If you are asked to do so, the site is not free or is asking for unneeded information. Dating site members should never provide information of this site online.

Take your time

Don’t be in a hurry to give information to those you meet at a dating site. They may be perfectly innocent questions, but if you are not pressured about giving information to the web site master or by the members you will be protected from much of the risk. Take time to get to know other web site members gradually without rushing into the release of any information that is personal or sensitive. If you only provide the same type of information that you would give a casual acquaintance, you will protect yourself.

Watch for inconsistencies

When you are getting to know others at a free dating site, you should be extra cautious about the stories that you learn about other members. Don’t allow yourself to be drawn into a dangerous situation because someone is lying to you about their background and personality. It may be your intuition kicking into place or you may catch other inconsistencies from the conversation with the members, but don’t ignore the information your gut gives you about another person or member. You can learn to be very selective about who you choose to further the relationship you start online.

Don’t reveal personal information too soon

When you meet someone on a free dating site that you think may be a person of interest, you don’t need to be in a hurry to give out telephone numbers or home addresses. Don’t tell everything about where you work or where you go to school. In fact, don’t tell any of your personal information if you don’t know who will be reading it or learning about it on the internet.

You can protect your privacy best by only releasing information that is needed and only to those who have reason to know the information.

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I got a message from a woman tonight who told me, “I just wish I could be able to tell from a guy’s online profile whether or not we’ll have chemistry. There must be a simple way to be able to read a profile and know if we’re going to get along?”

Let me tell you something: profiles lie. People write the most ridiculous things in their profiles – I think of online profiles as Fantasyland half of the time.

It’s like an advertisement for a new weight loss pill: “lose 300 pounds in two minutes!” In their online profiles, everybody seems to write things that express who they want to be and not who they really are.

For instance, if someone is in his or her late forties, they always write, “I’m 48, but I’m a young 48. I don’t look like I’m 48.” Nobody thinks that they look like their age. You either look good for your age, or you don’t.

I’m 46 years old, and I look good for my age. I know people who are my age that don’t – and they admit it. Some of us look good for our age, and some of us don’t. It’s the way life is. The way we are depends on the way we take care of ourselves – our exercise routines, our genes, everything.

So stop building yourself up on your profile. Let the reader make a decision based on your photo about if you look good for your age. When you build yourself up like this, you’re setting yourself up for failure. If you say, “I really look great for my age,” and somebody upon seeing your photo disagrees, then you will take it as a personal insult.

Profiles are just fantasy – and often nothing more. People write whatever they want to write. They don’t tell you the truth! If someone is slightly overweight, they aren’t going to tell you that in their profile! They will give you this beautiful picture of who they are.

We’re people, and we all have our faults. We all have flaws. And the only way to find that out is to go out and meet people. If you took the amount of time you spend online dating and actually went out into the real world to talk to people, you wouldn’t go back to spending so much time with online dating.

You can’t make one thing your only resource. You need to do what I call the ’20-20-20-20-20 rule.’ 20% of your life can be online dating, 20% can be meeting men or women in supermarkets, 20% can be meeting them in coffee shops, 20% can be parties… whatever it is.

You have to diversify your portfolio – your dating and people meeting portfolio. If this year, all you invested in was the S & P 500, you’d be down about 20% in the stock market right now.

If you bought real estate in 2005 thinking the market would get better, you’d be down about 40% – 80% right now, depending on the market that you’re in. Life is all about diversification.

The next time that you are angry with the internet, or angry with people in their online dating profiles, ask yourself: are you diversified in the way you meet people? If you’re not, you are never going to meet anybody.

So get out there and diversify!

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Learning more about your online date can be informative, fun and educational. Online dating is one of the most popular online activities for singles today.

You may wonder what you will find to talk about or discuss but the possibilities are endless.

Sharing recipes and bidding at auctions are both popular online activities and both these activities can help ‘break the ice’ with your online date. Most men I know do a little more cooking than turning sausages at the occasional bar-b-q !

It makes a pleasant change to talk about something other than the weather.

In England it seems to be rain, rain and then more rain. So nothing interesting there but I think everyone can talk about food. You can also exchange your favourite recipes with each other or if you don’t want to share your secret recipe then search the web for ‘free recipes ‘and share those instead.

Share photographs of your culinary creations as well if you wish.

I think you can find almost anything on eBay, so enter a search for memorabilia from an era that you have in common and share photos of old games, toys and records. Reminisce and take a walk down memory lane together sharing any tales that may be relevant.

Create an online photo album for your online date. Include in it favourite digital photos of any countries you may have visited, your pets, favourite flowers, your dream car or anything else that interests you then you will have plenty to discuss or chat about. Suggest to your date that it may be nice if they did likewise. In the early days do not include personal photos like your car or your house, always be cautious. Share personal details only when you feel that you know your online date.

If you search the web for ‘free online greetings cards’ you will find there are quite a number of sites indexed for that search term and some are very good. Send your online date a fun card to brighten his/her day and they will be flattered that you were thinking of them. You never have to meet anyone until you are ready and you are familiar and comfortable with your online date.

The same rules apply to online dating as in offline dating, never forget your manners

Be courteous and listen to what is said to you and show an interest. Always treat people with the same respect that you would like to be given.

Do not type in all capital letters as online this is considered to be shouting and is rude.

Most online dating members provide a photograph so compliment the way she/he looks.(Guys like compliments too, just something simple like you think he’s got lovely teeth ,a nice tan or a lovely smile.)

Don’t be too heavy, just have fun. .Even if you have had a bad day concentrate on the nice things that have happened however small. Even if the only nice thing to happen in your day is to talk to your online date then let them know.

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Although many people have heard things about free internet dating sites, not everyone is familiar with exactly how the process works. Although it isn’t very complicated, each step in the process has a part to play in order to ensure that your dating experience on the internet is a positive one.

Sign up as a member

Free internet dating is a fairly simple process to get started with. The first step is, naturally, to decide which site you want to join. You should review those sites that match your personality or the type of site with many members and a wide variety of profile types. You should be able to sign up without submitting any financial or sensitive information. Make sure the site is actually free. You shouldn’t need to go through a testing process, either before you are deemed worthy to join the site. You just need to be honest about who you are.

Create a profile

Your next step on the path to enjoy free internet dating is to create a profile. Be certain that your member profile does an adequate job of expressing your personality. You should be complete and yet concise. Certainly your profile should be scrupulously honest. Don’t pretend to be someone you aren’t. At the same time, an interesting and fun profile is one that attracts other people to you, just as an interesting and fun person has more dates. When your profile can demonstrate that you are a person that’s fun to be around, you are more likely to improve your dating picture.

Browse or search for those with like interests

Free internet dating sites allow you to browse or search for those who have interests like your own. This eliminates the need for spending a lot of time in real life trying to find people who like to do the things you do. You can go to step two in the relationship, just be reviewing the profiles of the members online. You can search and index certain characteristics and traits and only follow up on those individuals who match those characteristics.

Make contact

Once you have set up yourself as a member and have written your profile and selected a smaller group of members in whom you may be interested, you can make contact with these individuals online and expand your communication with them. Free internet dating sites allow you to do all these things safely with no repercussions if you choose to drop the relationship at any point. If you want to continue, you can make contact at any of the levels indefinitely without pressure to change your relationship to something more serious. Of course, any change in relationship level would need to be done by both parties.

Move to the real world if desired

Another possible level to the relationships developed on a free internet dating site is that of moving to the face to face meeting and having a date with one or more of the people you meet online. If you both choose to do so, you will already have learned enough about each other that you will eliminate some of the potential awkwardness that might otherwise occur with a blind date. This dating may or may not lead to something even more serious, but you are under no pressure to do anything that is beyond your own comfort zone.

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Have you ever noticed that most Internet profiles start with “I am” or “I want?” And although you’re the one looking for true love, your profile shouldn’t be only about you.

“Dating Online is not about you, it’s about the other person you’re wanting to attract to you. This is also known as Compound Interest. For a change try to ‘Pay it Forward’ and watch what happens,” Chaszey says.

“What, I have to pay something forward?” you may say.

Let’s give this some thought. The Online Dating industry takes in over $2 billion dollars per year, with more than 10 million daters looking for true love online. With that many people online looking for true love just like you are, you will most likely spend your time rejecting others and getting rejected yourself. Another way of saying this is once you have made your outstanding profile public, what’s left to do is really weeding through the dozens or even hundreds of men or women that come towards you.

Meanwhile, and until you have found your “one and only,” focus on strengthening your own kindness by earning karma points. Every time you need to say “thank you but no thank you,” instead of hitting the ready-button, formulate an e-mail that flows with grace and kindness.

Chaszey says: “Whatever we give out comes back to us tenfold. What people forget is that while people should earn our trust, no one should have to earn our respect and our kindness. Each and every person deserves these free gifts from us, for the simple fact that we are fellow humans living on the same planet, enjoying the same sunlight and walking fairly similar journeys called life. And let’s recognize that everyone is looking for the exact same thing: Unconditional Love.”

Learning how to send graceful rejections that don’t feel like rejections to your suiters takes time, effort and a kind heart. Chaszey says: “It’s so worth it because soon you realize your positive karma points are subject to compound interest and before you know it your life is changing in dramatic ways that you never dreamed possible. It’s hard to explain, but so worth it.”

These karma points serve like a bonus to help you build a new character and create a stronger and kinder you so you can bring into your experience the person you truly deserve.

So before you hit that pre-programmed “thanks but no thanks” button, take a few minutes and read the other person’s profile anyway, and send them a response that is filled with your kindness, not because they deserve it, but because that’s who you are.

Chaszey Sandhriel is Your Online Dating Coach and helps Online Daters create sizzling results. You can visit her at www.YourOnlineDatingCoach.com or call her at 415.419.7952.