Comments on: Online Dating: Safety Issues and Solutions in 2007

By: greg

greg — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:38:20 +0000

A very good website to check out, is bconcerned.com. They offer a free dating safety tool, that monitors and confirms your safe return home. They also very good safety tips to follow and post the latest scams and news briefs regarding online dating.

By: Dr. LeRoy A. Stone

Dr. LeRoy A. Stone — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:44:38 +0000

For anyone interested in the general topic of online dating, there is a new URL that describes a great new safety tool for those who make use (or who are contemplating such) of any of
the online dating sites, of which there must now be thousands available on the Internet. Only a few of the most major such sites offer any type of psychological testing and/or
background informational searches to be accomplished on the users of the sites. Compatibility testing and matching really does not help filter out those who are attempting to make
use of the sites based upon scamming, criminal, or otherwise harmful motivations. Reviews of the only couple sites that offer users some degree of criminal background history
checking and unfortunately these checks have been reviewed as being too limited in scope; generally only limited to the police records in a single State or else useless as the focused
upon individual is making use of an alias or pseudo name in his/her communications with the site.
Just very recently, a new approach has been developed that addresses this very problem. A psychologist who has an extraordinary background in psychological test development, as
well as in security related integrity or honesty testing has developed this new tool. This psychologist has developed a rather short/quick psychological test, based upon well-established
and sound psychological test construction logic, that is designed to assess almost a dozen problem areas that are highly associated with personal integrity/honesty. This 72-item,
multiple-choice test, the Personal Security Standards Psychological Questionnaire (PSSPQ), has recently gone through a rather thorough testing when used to screen or otherwise
evaluate the general integrity of persons who were attempting to contact potential ‘dates’; through the services offered by online dating sites. The PSSPQ has recently been made
commercially available to users of online dating sites. An extremely complete (and quite lengthy) description of the PSSPQ when used in the online dating arena for individual
evaluation purposes is available on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/psspqdatingtest.htm . On this PSSPQ website, many helpful links are provided that greatly aid a reader in
understanding and evaluating the PSSPQ, its development, and its developer, as well as the many dangers that face anyone making use of the online dating sites.

By: Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Tiberius Brastaviceanu — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:30:28 +0000

Security and misrepresentation are the biggest concerns in online dating. Moreover, these two things are intimately related: a security problem passes through misrepresentation. A great number of scientific studies about misrepresentation on the Internet are available now. I wonder if someone has done some meaningful research on the type and the amount of crime related to online dating. I personally believe that crime on the Internet is real, but how big of a problem is it? How concerned should we be about crime on dating sites as opposed to crime in real life?
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Lets look at Mr. Vestâ€™s actions. Is it really about the danger related to murderers, sexual offenders, or other convicted criminals? Is it about security? If this would be the case, can the measures of Mr. Vest be effective? I personally donâ€™t think so. I would let this problem for the low enforcement to deal with, even though moderated caution must be exerted by every actor in the dating industry. We see crime more often in nightclubs around the country, and everybody is allowed in to socialize, as long as they donâ€™t pose any eminent threat. The only positive effects of Mr. Vestâ€™s actions are that members of online dating communities feel safer, and that non-professional bad guys get scared.
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I believe the biggest problem is not the criminal, but the high level of misrepresentation, that butters members of dating sites, and ultimately erodes the image of the industry. Itâ€™s the guy that lies about his marital status, these people that are there just to have fun, and to play romantic games that can eventually hurt others. The banal misrepresentation is the real nuisance. I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s worse, to steal 200$ from a person, or to play with someoneâ€™s feelings and to affect someoneâ€™s self-esteem?
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To camouflage the misrepresentation problem by trumpeting legal action against ex-criminals would seam like a good business strategy; but it doesnâ€™t solve the real problems, and sooner or later they will come back to hunt Mr. Vest.
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The problem of misrepresentation must be understood, and dealt with. It is very complex, but we can contain it. In terms of harm and numbers of peoples getting heart it is more important then the real crime issue. I am working on this subject at this moment. Take a look here http://tiberius-dating-industry.blogspot.com/
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Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Inventor of the new Matchmaking Device System