Are Background Checks on a Dating Site Important

Let's take a look at the Dating Site Background Checks poll.

A couple of months ago when I started the poll I was curious to see if background checks were important to members of dating sites. Of the 388 votes the poll received, 224 were by women and 163 were by men. Since the visitors of this site are pretty much evenly split between genders, this topic appears to be more important to women. Overwhelmingly women voted that background checks were important to them. Of the 224 votes, 192 or 86 percent of them said yes. Only 5 percent said no and a further 9 percent didn't care about background checks. On the flip side, 55 percent or 89 votes of the men thought background checks were important with 20 percent thinking the opposite and a further 25 percent not caring about the topic.

I am not surprised with the result that only 55 percent of men really cared about background checks. I thought more women would care than men but I didn't think we would see that 85 percent of all women find background checks important. This poll may be a reality check for some dating sites. If you want attract women to your service it looks like by offering an integrated background check of members into your website would go a long way to achieve this goal. This service should also be mandatory on all members with either having the cost integrated into the price of a membership or as an add-on for free. Having only certain members with background checks like some sites do, doesn't really help anybody.