Meet someone person online dating
12-Mar-2020 23:01
Still, there are risks when you get together in person with someone you've met online for the first time.Whether you're on social media or on a dating app, safeguard yourself and your private information from would-be criminals.If you want to safely meet a person you met online, keep your first few meetings public and brief, and always have an escape route.
Because it just isn’t a real relationship until you’re sat opposite each other, drinking lattes.
But a recent study by the University of South Florida suggests that – while a short period of messaging is fine – we actually shouldn’t wait too long to arrange a meeting.
Published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, it explains that there’s a ‘tipping point’ when it comes to online dating.
Studies have suggested that anything between 35 and 50 per cent of all couples in the UK, now meet via the web.
What’s more, a study by dating site e Harmony, estimated that seven in ten couples will have done so by 2040 – with 55 to 64-year-olds experiencing the biggest boom (an expected 30 per cent rise between 20).
You can gather information about the other person, but until you meet them you won’t know if ‘I love to laugh’ means Fawlty Towers or fart jokes. It’s easy to think you know a person better than you really do.