Woman Sues Dating Site for Nearly $10 Million After Attack

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http://news.msn.com/us/woman-sues-matchcom-for-nearly-dollar10-million-after-attack

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[Damaso Marte]

Can't imagine a worse place to find victims than a site that creates records of your contact with the victim in multiple places. But I suppose a 53 year old may not be as computer savvy as me.

[Cogidubnus]

Hi Damaso

But I suppose a 53 year old may not be as computer savvy as me.

Just come across this...the lady concerned was 49 incidentally...it was her attacker who was 53

I'm 60 this year and was into computing way before the pc came along...jeez computers in my professional life pre-date Gates and Dos (1981)...At school in the late 60s/early 70s I learned Fortran and Cobol...I don't know how old you are Damaso but I might well have been programming before you were born...

So with respect I think your condescension may be a little misplaced...

All the best

Dave

[Limehouse]

I agree with you Dave. Young people often assume older people are not computer literate but they completely overlook how long the technology has been around. I'm 55 and have used technology in the workplace for 30 years. Bill Gates is over 60 - would anyone suggest he is not computer savvy?

[Beaufighter]

Hi Damaso



Just come across this...the lady concerned was 49 incidentally...it was her attacker who was 53

I think that it was Damaso Marte's point that the assailant could have found a victim with less risk of arrest and imprisonment had he used another method rather than computer dating. DM speculates that it was due to the assailant's advanced age and lack of IT knowledge that led to him sourcing his victim in this way.

It is therefore the asssailant's age, not the victim's, that is relevant.

[sdreid]

All the dating sites, including newspaper personal adds from years gone by, that I've seen advise caution when first meeting an individual so I don't see what they were expected to do - they can't read a person's mind. It was a horrible event but the same thing could have happened with a guy she met at a bar or a church social.

[Ginger]

One, she'd registered for the dating site herself, so should have known before ever meeting the fellow how deeply they dug into user info, and should have consequently been able to form a judgement about how well-vetted any potential date would be.

Two, he apparently sent her threatening messages four months before he tried to kill her, after she'd already met him and presumably knew rather more about him than his dating site profile would have revealed. Why on earth didn't she call the police?

I tend to see that as her own negligence.

Lastly, if he's 53 years old, and that's all the better he's learned to control his impulses/desires, then he's got worse issues than not being knowledgable about the implications of social networking. Some people you wonder how they got as old as they are.