Online Relationships – What to Watch Out For: Make Sure the Other Person Isn’t Impersonating Someone Else
These days, online communication is as popular (if not more so) than face-to-face communication.
Thanks to the Internet, people meet, fall in love, start dating, and even break up without ever seeing each other in real life.
Whether this is good or bad is not for us to judge, but it is still worth discussing all the risks associated with such “virtual” relationships.
What to be wary of
Perhaps the main problem with online relationships is that your interlocutor may pretend to be someone else.
Here are 3 tips to help you check this.
1. If you have any doubts about the photos, use Google Image Search. It is possible that the image on the avatar was borrowed from someone else's page.
If you are an active user of social networks, regularly check whether your personal photos are being used for fraudulent purposes.
2. Evaluate the account: compare the number of likes and subscribers, make sure the information is complete, and analyze the frequency of posting photos with the same geolocations.
If the profile regularly contains contradictory information or there is no information at all, and in the photos the person looks as if he or she is teleporting to different countries, it is worth thinking about.
3. Pay attention to the correspondence. Analyze how much the interlocutor's answers look templated and how confidently they answer your questions.
Some online dating enthusiasts have ready-made templates of responses that they send to everyone, without paying attention to the question or the name of the recipient.
Earlier we named cases when it is better not to cheat in a relationship.
