There are people who use online dating sites as well as various other places to get personal information and use it for identity theft.

While the chance of this happening is minimal you can avoid the inconvenience of it happening to you by keeping all your personal information private.

If you are contacting one another by email it is best to get a specific email address for that purpose so you can keep that part of you life separate from your business and personal information.

Google.com has a very good email service called gmail that can be found at the following link http://gmail.google.com and the reason this service is recommended is because you can save all your correspondence and that will allow you to search back through your emails to find information about the person that you might need to recall.

Never give anyone your home address until you are completely comfortable to do so as you might decide after a while that you would like to end the relationship and it is a lot easier if they don’t know where you live as they could be the type of person who could start harassing you when the relationship ends.

If you are talking via phone you can use your cell phone and if there are any problems it will be easier to get a new number.

Until you are sure you want the person to know more about you it is also good to keep your place of employment to yourself and if you feel any pressure to reveal this information just tell them that you prefer to wait until you are a little further into your relationship. If they can’t accept that then you have cause to be concerned. You should never feel pressured into doing anything that you aren’t comfortable with.