Pursue Love Deliberately!

May 3

Written by: adminsophia
5/3/2010 3:45 PM 

 

                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First I was disappointed then I just laughed at this situation, thinking that its just another great example for people why hiring a professional matchmaker is a better alternative to online dating… Not only all your matches are screened and pre-qualified but also it saved you time, energy and frustration which almost impossible to avoid while you are searching for a soul mate on-line on your own.

Online dating is quick gaining popularity as it is the easiest way to search for love. Online dating agencies are booming industries. Already about half of American adult singles are using online dating services to find their perfect match. Despite all the advantages of online dating, there are still risks involved. One of the major risks is the issue of fake online dating profiles. You can avoid heart break by learning how to identify fake online dating profile.

Several things in a person's online profile can help to detect fake profiles. There is no guarantee that keeping an eye out for those profile tell-tales will keep the scammers from still contacting other people and it also does not mean that everyone that has these flaws in their profile is actually a scammer. Therefore when looking for the following clues, it has to always be done using common sense to judge the profile in general.

What is a Fake Dating Profile?

A fake dating profile is a profile created on a dating service that inaccurately represents the person creating the profile. It is used to mislead other members of the dating service for varying reasons. Most fake profiles (75%+) are of woman.

Why are these Fake Dating Profiles created and who creates them?

There are three main types of fake profiles:

1. The first one is relatively harmless but the most common. It is created by the average person quickly just to gain access to the site by using a free trial membership. They use these memberships to check out what the dating site has to offer them. The profile usually contains minimal information and one word answers. This makes them fairly easy to spot and thus can be avoided. Almost always these profiles are without photos. Since they are easy to spot you would think that the dating sites would remove them rather quickly. This is not always the case, since they can use these profiles to inflate their numbers of how many members they have.

2. The second fake profile type is probably the hardest to spot. It again contains bogus information about the member, but the information used is usually what is most commonly searched for in the dating world. As an example a male or female under thirty who is trim and good looking. The picture used is usually of some good looking person probably taken from another dating sites member profile. This type of fake profile is created to create more responses from other members. The person wishes to lead other members on just for the fun of it (don't ask me why?} or to actually try and get a date hoping that when the person actually see's them and gets to know them, all lies will be forgiven!

3. The last fake profile type is created to indirectly make money for the profile owner. Half the time, these fake profiles contain actual photos of the person along with an exaggerated profile. These profiles are usually created by escorts or people from porn sites. They do this, with the idea that you will like this persons photo and profile so much, that you would willing to pay to see more of them. These types of profiles are mainly geared towards men and/or people with certain fetishes. Dating Services don't like these profiles since they degrade their site and can take potential money from them. Not always easily to spot at first (some can be blatantly obvious though), these profile are usually removed when enough members complain about them.

To wrap up...
In the end all dating sites contain the above fake profile types to varying degrees. It's hard for the dating services to keep up with them since so many are created (there are automated programs that can actually create them). With good software filters and manual checking of profiles they can be for the most part easily flagged as fake and then removed in time.

It’s just another reminder to those, who are still searching for their soulmates, to delegate this delicate task to the professional matchmaker to avoid the frustration and all the risks that come with on-lined dating.

Sophia McDonald

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