Dating Site Weeds Out Philanderers

27 Jul, 2004 at 7:52pm ET Article published in Tech

An online dating service hopes to help its love seekers avoid the sleazily married by filtering philanderers.

Upstart dating service True.com, which already screens for felons, recently expanded its partnership with database provider Rapsheets.com to review public records and verify a user’s single status. If a wannabe Romeo turns out to be a married Pinocchio, the user is thrown out of the cyber-circle.

Watch how fast this one goes out of business. Philanderers make up a sizeable portion of the dating services. -KF

Source: CNN

Comments

27 Jul 2004 ~ 9:11pm kanezfan

KingFish wrote:

Watch how fast this one goes out of business. Philanderers make up a sizeable portion of the dating services. -KF

and you know this how
27 Jul 2004 ~ 9:14pm KingFish A birdie told me? I've never philandered, it was in another news story I read a while back. Nice try though

KF
27 Jul 2004 ~ 9:56pm primesuspect Is "philander" just an upper class way of saying "cheating bastard"?
27 Jul 2004 ~ 10:02pm KingFish You hit it right on the head! Same thing, nicer way of saying it.

KF
4 Dec 2004 ~ 5:09pm Shhh I don't understand why "philanderers" lie about their marital status on single sites when sites such as discreetadventures.com exist.