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5 Pros of Offering Background Checks at Dating Sites

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

There’s a strong movement afoot to push for background checks at online dating sites.  But what are the real pros of providing this kind of service?

Below, we look at five of the biggest advantages for sites who are willing to take this measure:

5 Pros to Offering Background Checks at Online Dating Sites:

  1. Protection.  It’s nice to know that if you’re using a particular dating site, people with nefarious backgrounds or criminal records have been screened.
  2. Convenience.  It’s one less thing that an online dater needs to do him- or herself.
  3. Marketing.  Being able to tout your dating site as being one of the only to offer background checks on registrants is a great selling point.
  4. Value.  A site can actually command higher rates from members if they’re able to offer this kind of security.
  5. PR.  The public relations benefit is tough to quantify, but let’s just say that “no news is good news”.  What dating site wants to court the possibility of a media circus if one of their members hurts another in some way?

In the end, we’re all for background checks at online dating locales.  What do you think?

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  • Would Background Checking Applicants Benefit Online Dating Services?

    Friday, July 2nd, 2010

    If you’ve ever been set up on a really bad blind date, you know how valuable it would have been to had that date “screened”, at least informally.  But how about formally?

    There’s a move afoot to encourage online dating services to background check their applicants in order to better serve the customers looking for friendship, love or companionship. 

    Would background checks actually help?  We definitely think so — check out these top three advantages to online dating sites’ comprehensively screening clients:

    → There would be a smaller, but stronger, pool of candidates from which to choose.

    → The online dating company could ask for a premium price.

    → The clients of online dating sites would feel more comfortable with this kind of “cyber dating” knowing that part of the worry has been erased.

    This isn’t to say that background checking would be a cure-all for every concern a dater has.  But it could produce huge advantages for both the clients and the company. 

    We’ll keep you posted if/when we learn of an online dating service that’s switched over to background checks

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