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Question re free dating websites

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Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 06/08/2012 13:43

My recently divorced sister has signed up to one or two (maybe more) free dating websites. She is not looking for a partner, but rather just to have some fun. She told me her user name and (rightly or wrongly) I googled it.

I was really shocked to see that her details are on MANY sites, some of which are really seedy and vile.

i am too embarrased to tell her that I googled her (Daft, I know) but I wonder whether she has any idea that she is all over these other websites, too. Some of them are very graphic and base.

My question is - if you sign up to a free website such as this, is your information automatically shared with other sites or would she have had to sign up for all of them? I appreciate that it is none of my business but I am concerned that she is playing with fire. She has had lots of dates and lots of sex with various men (her life, I know) but I worry that one will be a maniac and do her some harm.

She says that she is very careful and does not open the door if they do not look like the picture that they sent her - this means that they coming to her home!

Do I tell her what I found? Would she know she is on all these sites? Sad

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Numberlock · 07/08/2012 13:06

I have also had times of no strings attached sex

I've only done this once and it was one of the most exciting things I've ever done! I'd love to do it again but find that most men are incapable of organising it properly, I still want to be seduced to some extent even though it's no strings.

My No Strings guy got it spot on, sadly we're no longer in touch!

She has had 2 bad marriages and is not interested in anything along those lines at all.

Completely see where she's coming from, Alliwant.

mercury7 · 07/08/2012 13:09

generally the worst of it is that some people want to mess you around, play games and waste your time.
If she is being quite 'busy' with it she'll soon have enough experience to be able to spot people who are not worth bothering with :)

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 07/08/2012 18:03

I suspect DSis is very "busy" with it!!

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HeleninaGoldChariot · 08/08/2012 00:47

Read this and thought I'd test out by googling my profile name. Yes, my photo turns up in lots of place linked in some way to random women and 'rate my photo' sites Shock No seriously weird ones but I suspect it would be easy. Suspending it asap.

Regarding your sister, yes her behaviour is risky. Maybe no more risky than picking someone up in a bar after a few drinks but if she really does have good radar then that is the best protection if she is going to do it anyway. I would worry about her on line presence though, not sure how you bring that up.

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 08/08/2012 07:19

My sister says that people can only contact you via the site where your details appear. So if she never goes on any of the dodgy sites, then she will not be contacted by any one on that site.

Still, I would be quite upset if my picture was plastered all over some weird sites. She is not concerned at all.

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