“I really don’t trust anyone online,” said Leon Pham, a dating app user and UC Santa Cruz student. (Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer) Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News Stanford’s Social Media Lab conducted a study on whether you can trust someone you’ve met on dating apps such as OkCupid. With a quarter of young Americans now finding romance through online dating and mobile apps, you have to wonder - can you really trust someone you’ve met through a screen? Researchers at Stanford’s Social Media Lab embarked on a quest to find out.