On Friday, the news went viral when Martha Stewart first told Matt Lauer on the Today Show that she loves to date and started to create an online dating
profile using her real name.
Not exact matches
After initially making users create Google +
profiles with their
real names, the company will now allow users to
use aliases.
Many people on dating sites, especially women, prefer
using a screen
name in their
profile instead of their
real name.
Using your
real name in a dating
profile hinders privacy, but at least Bumble and Tinder do Facebook verification.
Resist the temptation to
use part or all of your
real name in your online handle or
profile name.
Lots of sites
use Facebook data and then let people create an alias to hide their FB
name — Thread.com was the first to do this, but I've never seen a dating site where my
profile name was my
real full
name.
This includes things like never showing your last
name or email address on your
profile, providing buttons so you can block and report abusive members, making customer support available 24/7, and
using SSL encryption technology to keep scammers away and make sure every user is actually a
real person.
Members
use real names and
profile page is pulled from Facebook.
Your
profile should reflect the
real you,
names are optional since most
use nicknames or aliases; you have to be careful about giving out your details.
Don't
use your
real name as your username, and don't re-
use a photo from your workplace or social network page as your
profile picture.
Even if your guy has his
real name listed fdee public information on his
profile, very few dating websites
use names as a search option.
For those
using pen
names: To abide by Facebook's official guidelines, your personal
profile should
use your
real name.
Some of these impostors are particularly hard to identify, as they will often
use the company
name of a
real and well - known recruitment company; Hays have had to deal with many phony
profiles which deceitfully claim that that person works for our business.
«If people are
using Facebook as a casual site, and have potentially embarrassing pictures and information posted, they shouldn't be
using their
real names or any information that could link the
profile back to themselves,» he says.