Should your dating profile be linked to your personal identity?

Online dating is growing in popularity with an estimated 20 million Americans meeting potential love interests online.  A recent New York Times article discussed safety risks associated with online dating, mostly stemming from the ease at which people can misrepresent themselves online.  According to the article, online daters are encountering married people pretending to be single or, worse, sexual predators and convicted felons” and that “plenty of crime stories begin with two people skimming each other’s online dating profiles” and referenced “the widely reported case of Jeffrey Marsalis, a serial rapist in Philadelphia who met his victims on Match.com.”  There are also people who post other people’s pictures (probably pulled from other online to create a new online identity without the intention to ever meet in person.

Physical attraction is an important part of screening potential mates but shouldn’t you be more cautious about who can identify you by your profile picture?  It’s a question that deserves attention, especially with the recent leak of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange’s dating profile on OKCupid.  

Teasers can be pixelated or clouded
with a privacy scale of 1-100.
(Cloud:60 as shown)

Through ProtectedPix you can create a ‘teaser image’ by modifying your picture so that it shows what you look like without the viewer being able to identify you.  Once you are comfortable with who you are communicating with you can reveal yourself in a clear picture. Each teaser is given a code which allows users to find you, write you a custom message and request to see your pictures.

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