do you know what the biggest mistake i think boonex makes, and its very nieve, even if good intentioned. Boonex is a sort of both worlds business, internet and real world, with it seminars and meetings of real people in far off glamorous places, thats all great stuff, but the net doesn't work like that. Lets put it this way, if in the real world when you went to do your meetings are seminars, there was this shady character in your midst, trying to get all the details it could on you, your photo,your see more name, your date of birth, like the internet, this shady person collects all it can find on anybody and everybody, to sell on to advertising companies, email scammers, fake profile makers and so on, are you then going to walk up to this person and deliberately give him your name, and force everybody else to do the same.
this is not the real world, this is the internet, so verify people by all means but dont display real names on the site, along with dates of birth.. This isnt face book, and even they cant get that right with all the muscle they have, on here we cant even stop spammers emailing us every five minutes, the site will just become an open address book...