Online Dating: Finding Love Or Misery?

Online dating without a doubt has become a trend to a lot of singles out there. Majority of the users that are registered in online dating sites are trying to find their so-called soul mates from across the borders. With online dating, you are like entering a large room and picking out your choice from a hundred of possible selections. Obviously, you are likely to choose from profiles with interesting details and attractive images.

It was already based on studies that only 10% of all registered users in an online dating site or community are actual and interesting profiles. Remaining 90% are surely dull and boring for you to even check especially when you're in such a hurry to finding someone.

While being eager with your search, did it even occur to you that you might be bumping into someone who's already a fraud? Maybe you doubt, seeing that you may be registered on a paid site and believes that everyone out there are screened. But regardless of being on a paid site or not, being screened or not; you can never assure your safety.

In online dating, either you find someone or someone finds you. You exchange chats and emails then later on will have conversations through webcams and voice chats. Now you feel secured since you believe that he/she's real. You are able to compare profiles and actually see each other through the webcam, but is that really enough for you to trust him/her?

In the world of online communities, everyone is considered to be anonymous. Everyone socialize freely since you know that you can truly be yourself and at the same time you can be someone else. You can never even tell the real intentions of the one you're interacting with. But then, since you allowed some time to get to know one another, you tend to trust him/her. You exchange information, you give important details about yourself then without knowing it, you're under his/her game.

He/she was able to lure you through his/her pre-determined pattern or script. You develop feelings for him/her through all the flattery and sympathy that he/she had shared with you.

A lot of things are bound to happen especially in terms of cheating. You two don't actually see each other, only through the internet do you communicate. He/she is more prone to cheating or dating someone else from his/her location since you don't have control over him/her. Instead of finding love, you find yourself wasting your time and energy on a worthless game.

How about good looking proposals with bad endings? Like having plans together then asking for your account number for him to deposit some cash which you didn't know was illegal money then get involved. Could also be that he/she was able to fully understand your routine.

Possibility of him/her being able to trace you through your IP address could allow him/her to get hold of private and personal information about you which causes you to start losing some of your assets. Another would be the idea of meeting and being together, wherein he/she would ask for travel money and because you are already so into him/her, you give it without knowing if he/she would really come for you.

There are a lot of frauds out there and it's just in a short span of time for you to realize and believe that they do exist. Always remember that everyone has something to hide and can be somebody else. Worldwide web is a free and liberal world that is prone to different kinds of possibilities and dangers.

When finding love, don't be too eager. Long distance relationship is not a bad idea; things could work if both are true from the beginning. Always look for appropriate responses. Remember that not until you actually meet will you really know how you feel. Never let your guard down whether be it on online dating or actual dating.