Staying Safe

Your phone number, socials, and email can wait. Get a feel for someone in our messages first - it's easier to walk away from a conversation than from a phone number you've already given out.

Coffee, not their place or yours. Tell a friend where you're going and roughly when you'll be back. Drive yourself, or arrange your own way home.

Nobody you haven't met in person ever has a good reason to ask for money, gift cards, or your financial details. Not an emergency, not an investment tip, not "just this once."

Before making plans to meet, a short video chat is a simple way to confirm someone is actually who their photos and profile say.

Moving fast emotionally, always having an excuse to avoid a call or a meetup, a story that shifts each time - on their own any one might be nothing, but they're worth paying attention to together.

Both Report and Block are right there on every profile. Blocking stops someone from finding or messaging you, immediately, and neither of you has to explain anything. Reports go to hands of a real person no AI.

If something feels off, that's reason enough on its own. You don't need proof or reason to stop replying, and you're never obligated to keep talking to someone because you already said yes once.

A reverse image search takes ten seconds and can catch photos lifted from someone else's account. It's not an accusation, just the same kind of check as the video call above - a picture instead of a live face.

Watch it get made, and don't leave it sitting unattended once you have it. If that's easier, just order and carry your own.