Read this article about the perils of online dating in this morning's Guardian. It's a fascinating story about a woman who's eyebrows need reshaping (you only see her pic in the print edition). No, seriously folks, it's a sad tale: Jenny met Simon on nerve.com, couldn't believe the soulmate-ness of their communication (he was email trawling, apparently, which she says means he was hacking into her email. Er, not sure that's what I think) and ditched her realtime boyfriend for a weekend in Spain with Simon. Then he turned out to be a weirdo. Just an everday tale of internet dating, then. First rule: check out everything they say before you get involved. There's lots of cool people, but some weirdos out there.
Interestingly, she starts the piece talking about a hoax email apparently doing the rounds in January about Coincidence Design (which I blogged a few weeks ago, and possibly naively thought was real). Got me to looking into a whole lot of privacy stuff and pretexting, as its apparently known. Led me to a scary article about Liam Youens who cyberstalked and killed a former classmate.
The moral of this story? Never give someone your NI/social security number. Don't talk to strangers, children. In fact, stay home. Oh, and get more meaninful endings for any article you write... more meaningful than "I complained to the website but wasn't taken seriously."
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