When meeting people online you always run the risk of encountering people who portray themselves as something they are not. Perhaps the most common occurrence of this are underage people that lead you into believing they are adults. This is a big problem on the Internet and this article will focus on techniques that help you determine if someone you are associating with online is a minor. There is nothing worse than getting to know someone and really liking them only to find out six months later that they just turned 16.
Some teens are able to act grown up and have very active imaginations.
In a medium like the Internet where you don't have to talk or see the person it is quite easy to use deception. It is up to you to be wise and use common sense and the techniques below, otherwise you run the risk of someone playing games wasting a lot of your time. This is probably the method that will give you the most concrete results of whether someone is trying to be something they are not. Ask them how old they are once in awhile just to see if they change their answer. If one day they are 24 and a few days later 22, they are playing games.