Be safe, be sure and be good... Internet Dating Safety is very important if you want to replicate the dating experience you would have offline or indeed improve on that experience. The reason we say improve on your dating experience, is that with internet dating there are features in place to protect you and ensure your safety until you know exactly who your date is and that you are happy to meet up.

Your identity is protected throughout your internet dating experience and it is very important that you maintain this setup until you are 100% confident about revealing yourself to your prospective date. When you first perform a search on our internet dating site you will come up with any number of results, all of which are looking to meet people like you. Your interaction with these people can involve chat, sms text, email and now audio and video chat. And, although we advise you to upload a photo so that you get a better response, this is the only element of your dating profile that firmly identifies you. Your personal information, email address, phone number etc. are all kept from the person you are communicating with.

You should never reveal your telephone number to somebody you meet online until you are really 100% sure that you are happy to do so. The best advice we can give you is that you should use the anonymous email functionality of an internet dating site until you build up a certain level of rapport with your potential date. You can then look at using the SMS text dating or video dating features to find out a bit more about the person. The video dating in particular, is useful in helping you to identify your potential date's real physical appearance, making sure that the person you plan to date is indeed the person in the photo profile.

It is always a good idea when you agree to meet up with somebody you have found on an internet dating site to have your first date in a public place with plenty of people around. A coffee shop or bar should do the trick. Use this first date to get to know each other and then arrange any future dates after this if you decide you get along with each other.

Always let somebody know where you are going and what time to plan to come home if possible. And, although it may sound a bit elaborate, you could also setup a text message or a call to let that person know that all is good and that you are comfortable with the date. The same could be arranged for an exit plan if you decide it just isn't going well and you would like a quick sharp exit. A pre-arranged call could be scheduled from your friend/family member that would give you the excuse to leave.

Of course, what we have mentioned here are simply statements of common sense and not in anyway designed to put you off using a online dating site. Quite the contrary... Internet dating is, generally safer than visiting bars or nightclubs and the safety advice we have given here is simply a collection of measures you would usually take as a precaution anyway.

Please be safe and enjoy this internet dating site.