Hi everyone here is something that everyone should read, I saw it in the English newspaper The Guardian and then again online.

Of course always remember that www.easilyfriends.com is free we will never ever ask you for any money and neither will anyone else here at www.easilyfriends.com and so if someone does ask for money ignore them, block them and report them.

We want your experience on www.easilyfriends.com to be fun, safe and above all have a happy ending.

Here is what was in The Guardian and if you want to you can read it here for yourselves.

www.guardian.co.uk

Scam watch: Online dating fraudsters are only after one thing …

OFT warns against scammers who build fictitious profiles on dating websites and befriend other users before asking for cash

Con artists on dating websites may ask for money to cover urgent medical treatment for a family member

Romantics should be on their guard against internet dating scams that can not only rip you off financially but also break your heart.

The latest scam alert from the Office of Fair Trading warns that the increased potential to meet people online is being used by criminals to con people out of their money.

“Romance fraudsters” target singles columns and dating websites to search for victims. They create fictitious online profiles and send out unsolicited emails or letters, often with fake photographs, using the trust they build up to persuade their victims to part with large sums of money in frauds that can go on for years.

These typically involve the scamster telling their victim they want to meet them but are stranded without the money to travel or cover visa costs. They may also say that they or a family member require urgent treatment for an illness.

The OFT says in one recent case a British national was kidnapped after travelling to west Africa expecting to be met by someone with whom they had established an online friendship. The individual had no idea that the online ‘friend’ was the fictional creation of a criminal group. The victim was assaulted, imprisoned for four days, and was released only when a ransom was paid.

“All fraud is destructive but dating scammers are particularly ruthless as they abuse the emotional trust and attachments that people invest when looking to meet someone,” says Heather Clayton, senior director of the OFT’s consumer group. The OFT says dating site users should take the following steps to avoid becoming victims:

• Know what you are paying for and what the dating agency promises to provide in return.

• If you receive any requests for money, be suspicious, even if you have known the person for a number of weeks.

• Be sceptical and ask yourself simple questions, for example, “Why am I the only person who can help them, when I have just met them?”

• If you meet somebody unknown to you, always meet in a public place and take a friend with you for support if you are unsure.

The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) adds that if you do decide to travel to meet an online friend, particularly if you go abroad, tell someone trustworthy where you are going, plan regular contacts and agree what they should do if you miss a contact.

63% of women say that the a man says ‘I love you’ first.

11% of all men believe that finding a life partner is important.

6% of all women are looking seriously looking for a life partner.

40% of all women consider that a man’s education is more important than whether he is handsome or not.

34% of all women believe that a deposit on a home is a more significant sign of commitment than an engagement ring.

29% of all women spend more time shopping than they do looking for life partner.

As a rule people either men or women go on 100 dates before they marry.

8 out of 10 singles believe that the first kiss is a very good indication what their rest of any relationship will be like.

Everyone here at www.easilyfriends.com would like to wish all of you a Merry Happy Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!

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For most of this year the good people at www.easilyfriends.com have been looking very closely at the way in which their members have been using their web site and dating trends in general together with the way that people use www.easilyfriends.com and the internet in general to find friends and partners.

Now the people at www.easilyfriends.com have started to use that information to improve their already excellent web site and offer some of the non-confidential research to members and of course readers of my blog.

My last blog covered the interesting fact that a large number of people around 50% log on to web sites such as www.easilyfriends.com specifically to find love, an encouraging fact if you are looking for someone to love yourself and probably the best reason to join www.easilyfriends.com which of course unlike other web sites doesn’t ask you to pay for the privilege.

As part of our research we looked at the demographic of our website and discovered that although just over 50% of our members are men 53% to be precise the number of female members has significantly increased during 2009 and the trend continues.

This of course means that as we enter 2010 and the increase in the number of woman joining www.easilyfriends.com rises they may well soon out number men and that will I am pretty confident make using www.easilyfriends.com a lot nicer for women and men alike.

All of which means whether you are male or female you are going to really enjoy visiting www.easilyfriends.com even more especially because they are the best free web dating service and that means that you don’t have to be alone.

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Recent studies in America have shown that the way society works is changing and nearly 50% of all people who use the internet for dating log on to find love!

That of course is no surprise really, every decade or so the way that we human beings do things changes and the last two decades have probably been the ones where there have been the most significant changes in the way society works especially when you look at the way we today go about looking for someone to love.

Of course the fact that nearly 50% of all people who use the internet for dating log on to find love, using online dating sites such as www.easilyfriends.com is really good news and not just for dating sites like www.easilyfriends.com.

The good news is that with so many people logging on to the internet to find love then it is easier for everyone to do the same, assuming that you are using a safe, reputable and of course free dating website such as www.easilyfriends.com.

If you want to find love then there are an enormous number of benefits that come from using the internet. You can get to know the person you are interested in rather well before you actually meet them. When you write to each other or use instant messaging it is surprising just how much you get to hear about the person you are writing to. There is less to worry about when you are not face to face and so you can build quite a rapport before that crucial first date.

When you communicate with each other on a dating site like www.easilyfriends.com no matter for how long, you begin to build a little ‘history’ that is just ‘yours’ and that is something that you have in common just between the two of you and with no one else.

So if you are looking for love, then it is true to say that there are few better places to look than on line at specialist dating sites such as www.easilyfriends.com.

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“More people than ever will use dating websites this winter to find their perfect partner.” According to the Daily Telegraph and so it has never been a better time to use www.easilyfriends.com.

This is really good news for all dating sites and the members who are there already. So what are you waiting for let’s prove the Daily Telegraph right and join now.

But remember not all dating websites are first of all free unlike www.easilyfriends.com and then secondly some website actually sell your information to other dating sites, especially ones that have just started so read the small print before you join, unless the dating site you are considering joining says in block capitals WE WILL NEVER SELL YOUR MEMBERSHIP DETAILS EVER as those nice people at www.easilyfriends.com do.

Have fun and be safe this Christmas and remember because of sites just like www.easilyfriends.com. you don’t have to be alone at Christmas or indeed the New Year.

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Hello my friends at www.easilyfriends.com guess what some kind person invited me to use the preview of Google Wave and after accepting and a few false starts I have managed to make it work and it is rather good.

No it isn’t as intuitive or as clever as www.easilyfriends.com and you won’t be able to find a partner using Google Wave but I have a feeling that it is the coming “thing!“

So look at for me Abigail from www.easilyfriends.com on Google Wave, but send your questions and problems to me at EmailAbigail© because that is a little more private.

These days it is sad to say that there are a lot of oddballs about and quite frankly that makes dating whether you are a, girl meeting a girl, a girl meeting a boy or indeed a boy meeting a boy something of a risk.

Happily there are a number of things that you can do to ensure that the date you are going to have is a safe one, even if it turns out to be less than an enjoyable one.

The first thing to do is a bit of homework especially if the date you are going to have is really a blind one and no one you know has introduced you to the person you are going to meet.

The sort of homework to do is to use Google to search for the person name, then check out FB and MySpace to see if the person is online and if they are you can get a good sneak peek.

If the date comes through someone you know from your family, mates or friends work then ask questions and get the information that you need that way. Remember it really isn’t bad to ask these questions these days, so don’t feel like it is.

When you go on the date you can either double up with friends or go somewhere very public and of course don’t travel too far to the date.

As a courtesy make sure that you have your date’s phone number so that you can call if it looks as though you are going to be held up. You must know what it is like if you are standing somewhere waiting for a date to arrive and they don’t.

You feel like a complete tool and after a while you begin to start to wonder how long you should wait before you give up and you wait a little longer getting ever more uncomfortable, so don’t let that happen it isn’t fair to your date and of course will spoil the evening.

To make sure that you are safe on your date tell someone where you are going and what time you will be back and make sure that you have sufficient cash on you for any emergency.

When you are on the date, turn your phone to vibrate and try not to use it or send texts, you are there to find out more about the person you are meeting so do just that, chat about what you like to do and of course listen to what the other person has to say as well.

Remember that if you feel a little nervous then it is likely that your date does and so that is actually something that you both can talk about because it is common ground and common ground is good for couples, not of course that one date is anything more than just a date so don’t make plans of any kind on the night for a second date, there is always plenty of time to do that afterwards.

Most important of all is to make sure that you know how to get home, if you haven’t driven to the date then make sure you know what public transport is available and aim to catch it so that you don’t have to wait outside at night especially if you live in a major city.

Lastly have fun, that is why you agreed to go out in the first place and if at any time you feel uncomfortable then leave it is a free country you know and it is better to be called something nasty behind your back than to be in any form of danger.

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A first date after a while can be ‘interesting’ for all of the wrong reasons and not just because you are out of practice. When you get home you start to wonder whether you both had fun and of course whether either of you want to repeat the fun and have a second date.

So what should you do next? Well if you are a woman you are supposed to ruled by a convention that suggests that you wait to see if ‘he’ calls and if you are a man you are supposed to call if you had fun and want to see your new friend again.

That does seem to leave a lot to chance doesn’t it? So what you do next assuming that you want to see the other party again should be ruled by you not convention. Though of course what you do next should be governed by how well the date went.

If you have a nice time then there is no reason not to have another date is there? If on the other hand things didn’t go so well of course you should continue looking for what you want.

If you have a great time then call the other person and let them know and suggest another date, you will soon discover if they feel the same way about the date and are prepared to have another.

When you call, and this applies to both men and women be chatty, and make sure you say that you had a good time as quickly as possible, oddly enough few people seem to know that compliments work as well on men as women.

And tell them what you are doing now, and if you really liked him or her tell them that you are getting ready for bed and thinking of ‘them’ that works rather nicely because it is an innocent comment but just as a very slight edge.

Keep the conversation short though because you don’t want to run out of things to talk about on the second date, on the third of course you can mention the telephone conversation after the first date which is nice because it shows that you are developing some personal history that only you two share and that is the best way to start a dating regularly and building something that eventually will come to be a relationship and all from a little telephone call.

Here at www.easilyfriends.com we try to make finding a partner as easy as possible and of course ALL of our services are FREE and always will be free but pleased do take care when dating someone new for the first time.

Meet in them in a public place and leave them in a public place. Make sure that you tell someone where you are going and when you expect to return and if you are going to be late then call them and let them know.

Dating is fun and dating safely means that you will have fun safely.

Have you ever wondered at what point a friendship becomes a relationship? Yes there is sex of course but sex is not exclusive to relationships these days and so it has to be something else doesn’t it?

So when do we go from being friends to being partners? It is something that I have thought of a lot and I think I have some suggestions to the answer but because I know that we are all human and therefore we are all so very different I wouldn’t begin to boast that I have ‘the’ answer!

Personally I think that the first in a long list of answers to the question “when is it that a relationship begins between two people?” Is that time when you go from being always excited by the person you are dating, when things start to feel comfortable.

It is when things start to feel comfortable that you both can relax and begin to enjoy each other on another level and that level is a relationship.

This is the stage in your relationship when you truly understand your partner and can enjoy the feeling that they understand you and that in turn will make you both relax and the more relaxed you are with someone the more open you are and therefore the more you will trust that person on all levels.

It is at this point that you will discover that you are spending more and more of your spare time together doing things that you both enjoy and surely that is a relationship isn’t it?

It is my hope that you find someone to share your life with and that is why I work with those nice people at www.easilyfriends.com they really help and best of all their service is totally free, even the advice that I give confidentially one to one and that has helped so many people in so many ways I am pleased to say.