Has anyone seen a dating site that uses people’s real names? Lots of sites use Facebook data and then let people create an alias to hide their FB name – Thread.com was the first to do this, but I’ve never seen a dating site where my profile name was my real full name.
YouTube is trying to get us to use our real names. Can you imagine the comment trolls using their real names? Newsflash, it looks like they are.
I was going to use Facebook comments on this blog but I figured that nobody would ever leave a comment, sometimes anonymity is a good thing to get the comments flowing.
Facebook testimonials, which are being turned on at a number of sites right now, are a new type of identity verification. But then the person who wrote the testimonial has to some how be verified. Not sure exactly how companies are going to roll out anything which is truly useful. At this point, it’s still pretty easy for a dedicated scammer to create a fake network of Facebook friends (this is more common than you might imagine).
In what context do you think singles would be ok with using their full names?
cheers for the post I dont think I would like using my real name on certain sites
It’s strange the disparity in safety concerns that some people have. Some are super-concerned about online dating safety and others scoff at the notion and just roll their eyes. I think for guys (for the most part) use of full names wouldn’t be much of an issue. Women, on the other hand, I think would (and should) be concerned if their full names are used. Something about that just doesn’t site right with me.
I think the first thing to worry about is to make sure the sites themselves and the profiles on it are genuine!
I don’t see a strong argument either way on using real name or not. I doubt identity theft is an issue, loads of people share your name (in most cases) but at the same time I see no reason while a potential date would need to know your real name in advance.
I have an unusual and therefore recognisable name. I also live in a small town, which makes dating hard enough! I’m less concerned about my safety than bumping into someone I know online and them recognising me instantly.
Fake names are good for the beginning. For sites that want to force the usage of real names is doing a disservice to it’s customers. Mainly for the simple fact that people do want some amount of privacy while their online…
Owner of the dating website, most of them they do not like visible their name because they like to do the business world wide and most of the traffic they want from North America, Europe and Australia. They don”t like the traffic only from the one country. Online dating business is world wide and lots of visitor success.
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