http://www.dating-service.com/blog/146/can-you-handle-the-truth/ Advice and Tips for Online Dating Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.dating-service.com/blog/146/can-you-handle-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-10499 Matt Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:07:33 +0000 http://www.dating-service.com/blog/146/can-you-handle-the-truth/#comment-10499 I don' t think background screening is the answer. There would always be undesirable people who are able to slip thru these checks if they wanted to. While there may be some others who have commited a minor offence in the past and would be barred from joining a dating site. Life is not as black-and-white as this. Using these types of checks as a selling-point, like some dating sites do, just gives members a false sense of security. As with meeting people in the local bar or at the supermarket, you have to make your own judgements. I don’ t think background screening is the answer. There would always be undesirable people who are able to slip thru these checks if they wanted to. While there may be some others who have commited a minor offence in the past and would be barred from joining a dating site. Life is not as black-and-white as this. Using these types of checks as a selling-point, like some dating sites do, just gives members a false sense of security. As with meeting people in the local bar or at the supermarket, you have to make your own judgements.

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