Taking precautions when dating via a chatline or interacting face-to-face, look at the best ways to keep yourself on the safe side:
(a) Protect Your Personal Information: Never share your personal information with the caller, especially when you talking to them for the first time, or a few days initially. This includes your physical address, and day-to-day activities.
(b) Continue to Stay on the Chatline: During the initial stages of dating at the phone chatline, make sure to continue with your conversations here only. It will help you judge the caller before you are meeting them.
(c) Report Suspicious Behavior: Make sure you are reporting the caller’s suspicious behavior as soon as you sense them talking to you in an inappropriate way.
(a) Don’t Rush: Take the right amount of time to know a person before meeting each other in person. You are advised not to rush into the dating relationship unless you know he or she is the right person to date. This will also help you know the existing red flags.
(b) Date in Public Places: Make sure to date each other in the real world by choosing a public place that is known to you.
(c) Keep Your Friends Informed: Make sure to inform about real world dating to your close friends and family members.
Never proceed if someone seems to be disrespectful towards your consent, be it anything. If anything feels suspicious about that specific person, then hold on, trust your gut feeling, and reject their proposal as soon as possible.
