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“Don’t date Him Girl” .com (aka Dontdatehimgirl.com) what is this website about?

“Don’t date Him Girl” .com allows women to anonymously post online private information about men. Such private information can include, but is not limited, to: alleged acts of infidelity, contraction of venereal diseases, having multiple kids by many different women, etcetera. But is Dontdatehimgirl.com tying a legal liability noose around it’s neck?

How did “Don’t date Him Girl” .com start

“Don’t date Him Girl” .com was founded in about 2002 by journalist Tasha Cunningham. The website is currently free and anyone with a email address can join. “Don’t date Him Girl” .com offers forums, giveaways prizes, fashion tips, beauty tips, and articles about empowerment for women. According to wikipedia.org:

DontDateHimGirl.com is a global online public forum where women can anonymously discuss and share their bad dating experiences with the world. The website, inspired by a conversation between close friends, is designed to give women a free online method to find out if the man they’re dating is a cheater.

How is “Don’t date Him Girl” .com controversial?

The terms of use for “Don’t date Him Girl” .com allow anyone to publish private information about men. This could include a ‘photograph and a brief profile of a man they have dated using the link “Add an alleged cheater“‘. The website’s founder refers to “Don’t date Him Girl” .com as a “dating credit report” for women. I don’t have an issue with “Don’t date Him Girl” .com in concept; but comparing “Don’t date Him Girl” .com to a credit reporting agency is like baking a turd covered with sugar, eggs, flour, and milk; then calling it a cookie.

Here are the differences. First with a credit reporting agency, you generally must consent in, writing, to have your personal credit information collected. Secondly, your credit information isn’t readily public; albeit, it is easy to obtain. The important point is that your credit information is not published for the world to see. Thirdly, you have a process to dispute derogatory information on your credit report.

Does “Don’t date Him Girl” .com verify the facts?

However, unlike a real credit reporting agency there is not the slightest bit of effort to check and verify the information about men posted on “Don’t date Him Girl” .com. In fact, according to wikipedia.org:

When interviewed, Tasha has stated that the site does not attempt to contact any of the men who are discussed on the site and that she feels no responsibility to ensure the veracity of the sites content. Men are given the ability to rebut postings made about them by sending an email to the site; their side of the story will be posted automatically when they log on to the site and create a username to post their comments.

If someone damages your property you can sue them in civil court. But, if someone breaks your heart; then you don’t have a legal remedy most of the time. It is ironic because, pains of the heart are usually more damaging and costly than the destruction of our material possessions. But it has to be this way, since there is no viable way to place a price tag on suffering from pains of the heart. I understand, the need to vent, rant and rave when you are emotionally scorned. But if your going to provide people with a globally, easily accessible, completely public forum; such as the internet; then in my humble opinion “Don’t date Him Girl” .com does have a responsibility to double check info posted about men.

I am sure some negative information posted about men on “Don’t date Him Girl” .com is true. Some of it is false. People assigned undo credence to the written word. How many people tend to take what is published on “Don’t date Him Girl” .com as gospel? There are two sides to every story and the only people that know what truly happend were the two people involved.

My conclusion about “Don’t date Him Girl” .com

Although men are given the chance to set the record straight, the damage is already done. It sort of reminds me of something out of the Salem Witch Trials. One way to test for the practice of witchcraft was to bound the hands and legs of the accused and toss them into a lake. If they sank to the bottom and drownd then they weren’t a witch. But if they floated to the top of the lake; then they must be using witchcraft and you would subsequently be burned at the stake. The point is, either way you were screwed. If untrue defamatory, information is published online then it is available for friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances, business partners, potential employers to see. Bad information can bring you personal shame, humilation and lost opportunities. Can “Don’t date Him Girl” .com be held liable? I don’t know. Only time can tell

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