Online Dating: Embarrassing Info About You Online
Do you mention it to online dates? What if it's rantings about you by a crazy person?

Online Dating: Embarrassing Info About You Online
Do you mention it to online dates? What if it's rantings about you by a crazy person?
Don't give out your last name until the second date.
Snoopy at September 6, 2013 7:51 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/09/06/online_dating_e.html#comment-3894658">comment from SnoopyThanks, Snoopy -- I suggested this in my response (to an email somebody wrote me asking for advice). Gives a person a chance to get to know you and see that the nutso stuff about you is probably not true.
Amy Alkon
at September 6, 2013 8:02 AM
Almost everything I do on-line (posting, blogs, etc.) is under a psuedomyn (the one I'm using now). I've been doing this for years, long before anybody realized how damaging an on-line presence can be. Now, I'm no longer in the dating game, but I would definitely tell someone about any bad stuff about me on-line before getting to the sexual encounter stage, including my pseudonym activity. Fortunately, my real self doesn't show up in anything bad. If it did, I would also disclose that before anything sexual happened.
Fayd at September 6, 2013 8:34 AM
Google is a both a terrible and wonderful thing isnt it?
I googled an old high school friend, to see if he was still living in the old home town.
He was, but he was also on the sex offenders registry for third degree sexual assault.
Isab at September 6, 2013 10:04 AM
And with the age of the internet -- even stuff you did in the 90's still comes up. I was asked about some 90's internet stuff in 2009 when I started at a new company.
Jim P. at September 6, 2013 8:13 PM
Let me guess, Amy. That dude who thinks you're a witch is now going after you online?
mpetrie98 at September 6, 2013 9:21 PM
He was, but he was also on the sex offenders registry for third degree sexual assault.
What he do? Get seen naked in his own bathroom by a mother and child illegally cutting across his property to get to the school bus stop 45 seconds faster?
lujlp at September 6, 2013 10:55 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/09/06/online_dating_e.html#comment-3895572">comment from mpetrie98That dude who thinks you're a witch is now going after you online?
Nopey -- question from somebody else!
Amy Alkon
at September 6, 2013 11:49 PM
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