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Is online dating for you? ? If so, here are 10 essential safety tips
News from NBC Latino:

In just 5 years, online dating has exploded from 20 to 40 million users and according to Jupiter Research, taking a $ 900 million industry in 2007 to $ 1.9 billion in 2012.

A plethora of choices have also been launched aimed specifically at the Hispanic community and the ads are finding you everywhere when you?re online. So you ask yourself: ?Is this for me?? or ?Que dir?a mi mam???

Yet there are two useful facts worth pointing out if you feel your mam? will give you a hard time:

-????????? According to Statistic Brain ? out of 54 million single adults in the US, 40 million have tried online dating ?so it?s worth taking a fly by and see

-????????? One in six new marriages in the U.S. are now between people who met through an online dating site (Source: Examiner.com)

If you do, make sure you consider the following safety tips:

1. Arrange to meet on neutral ground.
   When meeting for the first time, never allow your date to pick you up from your home. In fact, your date shouldn?t even know where you live!
2. Meet in a public place.
   For a first meeting, always meet in a public place where other people are in close pro????? continues on NBC Latino

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Online dating: marriages, sorrows, precautions
News from BP News:

LEESBURG, Va. (BP) ? Joy Isaacs was bored and her married friend was curious, and that?s why she signed up for eHarmony last January.

At age 24, she liked being single and dreamed of ministry in Haiti after finishing her job commitment in Leesburg, Va. A man would disrupt all that. The whole online dating thing was absurd, anyway.

But with her friend Katie Wilson prodding her, Isaacs agreed. They spent the whole afternoon answering profile questions.

Isaacs is not alone, and the stereotype of online daters as desperate singles looking for love is rapidly fading. Millions of people around the world have joined online dating sites, secular and Christian alike. In a disconnected world, online dating lets singles seeking romantic relationships make connections with likeminded people outside their current circle of friends and acquaintances.

But online dating also presents a set of challenges and risks different from the days when people typically met future spouses in school, church or the neighborhood. Technology can both isolate people from their communities and then fill the void it creates. As Neil Postman warned in Amusing Ourselves To Death, ?the culture always pays a price for technology.?

eHarmony alone has more than 20 million members paying $ 60 a month to find love. It claims responsibility for nearly 5 percent of all marriages in the U.S.,????? continues on BP News

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Source: http://www.prodatinginfo.com/2012/09/is-online-dating-for-you-%E2%80%93-if-so-here-are-10-essential-safety-tips/

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