Free Senior Dating Services
Posted: Saturday, February 18, 2006
by Jason Gluckman
There are innumerable sites on the Internet offering free senior dating services. As a senior citizen, you can browse through the sites, and if you are lucky enough, you may find a worthy companion to share your joys and sorrows and while away the long lonely hours. Years of experience would have taught you that nothing in this world is free and there is always a catch. So before jumping into the fray, make sure that the coast is clear. Simply stated, make sure that you do not part with any information, which could prove to be harmful in the long run. For example, you find a particular profile, which is tailor-cut to your needs, and you click the link to contact the person. In most cases, you will be asked to provide your personal information, make a payment, which in turn would mean giving your credit card information. If it is a fraudulent site, chances of the credit card information being misused cannot be ignored.This is not to say that all free dating websites are there to cheat you. There may be other people who are lonely and trying to find an ideal person to date. If you are lucky, you might find your soulmate. But you need to tread with caution because the chances of fraud are abundant. You may be defrauded of your credit card information, which may be misused. Your email box can be barraged with spam infested with viruses and you might find that your computer is no longer working. Your phone may start ringing incessantly disturbing you all the day long with calls from the outbound call center sales executives. You may be left wondering how these people got hold of your telephone numbers or email ids in the first place.
There are innumerable sites on the Internet offering free senior dating services. As a senior citizen, you can browse through the sites, and if you are lucky enough, you may find a worthy companion to share your joys and sorrows and while away the long lonely hours.
Years of experience would have taught you that nothing in this world is free and there is always a catch. So before jumping into the fray, make sure that the coast is clear. Simply stated, make sure that you do not part with any information, which could prove to be harmful in the long run. For example, you find a particular profile, which is tailor-cut to your needs, and you click the link to contact the person. In most cases, you will be asked to provide your personal information, make a payment, which in turn would mean giving your credit card information. If it is a fraudulent site, chances of the credit card information being misused cannot be ignored.
This is not to say that all free dating websites are there to cheat you. There may be other people who are lonely and trying to find an ideal person to date. If you are lucky, you might find your soulmate. But you need to tread with caution because the chances of fraud are abundant. You may be defrauded of your credit card information, which may be misused. Your email box can be barraged with spam infested with viruses and you might find that your computer is no longer working. Your phone may start ringing incessantly disturbing you all the day long with calls from the outbound call center sales executives. You may be left wondering how these people got hold of your telephone numbers or email ids in the first place.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Hi Jason, Frankly, I don't think online dating for seniors is not as awful as you stated. My friend Jacky met his second part recently on a niche dating site named SeniorWoo. It really needs our wisdom as you mentioned. Choosing a paid site may be the right approach. Yes, no free thing in this world and you get what you pay for.
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