Online Dating Sites

Tell her to be careful and trust her instincts. I met my husband online, we have been together 12 years and married for 11 years this month! =) So it definitely can work!

I do not think you are being paranoid, I think you are living in reality. Anything can happen at anytime, anywhere..least this is the way I think of online dating.. People are opening up themselves for perhaps undesirable to say the least. It seems though my friend, that even if you are warning her, she may do it anyway is this the case? I wish her the very best luck sometimes it can work but ....

I think the bad guys can be available everywhere. Online dating does give people more choices and I think it is alright to have a try when you can not find the right one in your real life. Perhaps at first you just contact with each other by emails, then calls. And if everything goes well, then you can consider to meet each other. You don't have to see each other at first.

Personally I could not do it, I would be too scared. But I doubt that you can talk her out of it.

My sister met her husband online and they are very happy. It can work as long as precautions are taken. If she finds someone she'd like to meet tell her to meet in a public place, with a friend just a phone call away.

I don't think you are being paranoid at all. It's just the way things are these days and you have to be very cautious.

it's not always love that you find in those kind of sites. just tell her to be cautious.

I have met 2 men online by the use of a language site. The first one introduced himself to me as a Chinese student. There was a time that he asked me if he can stay in our house if he visits. I said yes to him without thinking of my safety. I also said yes because I thought he was just trying to fool around. We just chatted for 2 months I think and it was not an everyday chat. I only saw him once in camera. When I told my bf that time (who is my ex-bf already) he told me I should not see a person who I just met online for 2 months. My ex bf told me that he might be a criminal in his own country trying to escape and I might put myself in a bad situation meeting him. I got scared and when he asked me to make a letter of invitation for him, I made an alibi that I could not do it. I also said that I could not see him in airport and if he wants, I could just give him my home address. All of those negativities were vanished when he came here and stay in our house for 2 months. His intention of just being with me to practice English is real. We developed a good friendship that I almost treated him as if he was my real brother. The 2nd man that I met online was eventually my boyfriend now. I met him after 5 months of chatting and video calls. I did not date with him alone. He visited me in my university and met also my classmates. As I mentioned on my other comments, I was not looking for love or for a boyfriend when I met him. It was just that it happened all of a sudden that I woke up already in love with him and I did not regret the time I met him in real.

I would tell her to be careful. Meet only in publiv places. Online dating is taking over - is becoming super popular at least here. I think you should be supportive but also remind her to be smart and safe . I have met a few people online and I am around to talk about it.

natural to be nervous - the chances of her date being a total nutjob are slim but most computer dating dates fail

I don't know much about dating sites. Hopefully the people will be screened at least a little bit. I'd be more concerned about someone trying to gain access to any moneys she might have rather than wanting to murder her.

Lol, many people meet online now,she just have to be careful,she can meet a murderer offline just as she can meet him online.

@slund2041 there are many fake peoples who joined dates sites.. the information of the person is totally fake also profile pic are fake.. so why trust anyone... its useless all time