(Online Dating Industry Journal) An article in the Miami Herald takes a very in-depth look at recent litigation against major online dating sites Match.com and Yahoo! Personals, as well as the quest to require online dating sites to state whether or not they provide criminal background checks on members.
The article also takes a look at how some online daters have found ways to get around paid subscription. From the article:
"Like a relationship tainted by untruths, customers of online dating sites have long been wise to the cyber dating game -- and finding creative ways around paying for services. Some customers post multiple profiles of themselves, using various user names on their sites, then cancel their memberships. Since most sites keep your profile even after you cancel, this allows subscribers -- or, as the suits allege, ''fake'' subscribers -- to continue to e-mail, or ''wink,'' at former customers.
"The only way former customers can respond to the wink is to renew their subscription. But some have found ways to ''hide'' another e-mail address in their profile that allows the sender to reply directly to the former customer without going through the service."
Many believe online dating services should not be subject to government monitoring and that background checks will provide a false sense of security, but, based on recent lawsuits several online daters have developed a mistrust for some of these services. For the full article, click here.
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