Wired for Love

Filed in archive on October 31, 2005

ASBURY
PARK PRESS -- Oct 27 -- According to Evan Katz, finding love on the Net
need no longer be a dirty little secret. Everybody's doing it so
there's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's a simple matter of
ease and cost efficiency, Katz says. After all, admission is
cheap. Because text-chatting prohibits eye contact, users can
miss the nonverbal cues that reveal more about a potential date than
mere text on a screen, Katz admits. "The strangest case I've
heard was of a man who didn't bother to tell his date that he was a
paraplegic until he showed up," Katz says. "It's understandable why he
held back that information, but it's hard to overcome the surprise when
you first meet someone." Common-sense precautions also can help
newbies avoid dastardly daters, Katz says. Some common tips include
slowing down emotional involvement and being wary of people who seem
too good to be true. "Use the same cautions you'd use if you
exchanged numbers with a stranger at Starbucks. Meet out in public,
take your own transportation, that sort of thing." FULL ARTICLE @ ASBURY PRESS

Mark Brooks: TRUElit a firestorm around online personals safety when it started offering
background checks and initiated a legislative campaign to force online
personals sites to state clearly on their home pages if they did not do
background checks on members. Next up...they are bringing into
question the validity of competing sites personality profiles.
TRUE offers the only validated test, of course.