NPR: The potential problems for older women exploring online dating are numerous.
NPR: The potential problems for older women exploring online dating are numerous.
when older women go looking online, they are more likely to be targets of Internet scams. NPR spoke with a retired flight attendant in Georgia, who is divorced and in her 60s. She asked that we not use her real name because of the delicate nature of her story. Her friends urged her to try the dating site Match.com — and she got a message from a gentleman who sounded nice.
“And I thought ‘Wow, how could one person get so basically lucky, blessed, whatever the term may be, to have found someone so quickly because he definitely came on with all the right words,’ ” she says. He sent her roses and texted and emailed her constantly. That’s the part of the Internet that’s different: It’s easier to become emotionally intimate with someone quickly. And communication is instant.
