Have you been CATFISHED?
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No.0
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I've heard of it but doubt I was ever. I met regular Joes .. except one turned out to be
19 when I was in my 20s, we never met in RL though.0 -
When I was 15 I met a guy who said he had just turned 19, was over 6' tall, had dark brown hair and blue eyes and 190 lbs... he got to my house (yes I was that naive at 15) and he was like 25, easily 300+ lbs and a mouth breather. I was polite for as long as I needed to be before my backup plan came to the door to check in. :laugh:0
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I feel like in this day and age, if someone is talking to you and they say they don't have a webcam or a camera of any kind, then you are probably being scammed.0
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I got a friend request one facebook from my ex's former friend. He was a Marine and deployed. We chatted on facebook for about 2 weeks and he said he really liked me and asked me if we could go on a date when he got back. Chatted for a couple more days and then he asked me to MARRY him. Everything got kind of creepy at that point.
Oh, and his brother is a 26 year old Marine on his 3rd marriage. First wife married during bootcamp and was gone in a year. Two more since then at least..
Apparently their parents never told them that you should get to know someone before marrying them.0 -
Cant believe no one mentioned this yet....
Who wants to be my imaginary girlfriend? The only requirement is you have to shave your Adams Apple first. mmmmkayyy?0 -
There's a lot of CATFISH on MFP...weight loss wise.
They log cooking, standing, food prep as exercise...
:ohwell:
Try working in a busy kitchen, not a home kitchen. You will be burning insane calories! Normally on a busy night I am almost dripping in sweat and out of breath.0 -
MTV is the TV version of Fast Food. It's bad for you. Turn the channel to Discovery Channel or History Channel, CNN even.
Discipline your mind as well as your body.0 -
hahah I love that show!
I've never been catfish, but I have a really close friend that had a really bad heartbreak.0 -
I'm a bum magnet meeting men the old fashioned way and apparently online as well.
No details but I've been scammed and lied to a lot. I met one real man but he was too busy to date even though he said he wanted a relationshop. Then one idiot I met lied on his profile and expected me to be okay with that, then lied in person and expected me to be okay with that, then got mad when I wasn't okay with that and called me a f***ed up person, then expected me to be okay with that because his feelings got hurt because I dropped him like a hot potato for all the lying. Oh, and he was about 100 pounds heavier than his profile picture (lie), said he was a hard worker but was actually on disability, and said he was active but actually slept until 1 or 2 pm everyday.
So, where are all the real men?
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Cant believe no one mentioned this yet....
Who wants to be my imaginary girlfriend? The only requirement is you have to shave your Adams Apple first. mmmmkayyy?
Read back. I claimed to be Manti's gf.0 -
I'm a french model
Ca va, toi? Tu viens ici souvent?0 -
\I'm a french model
Bon Jour?0 -
The last date I went on - he thought I was catfishing him!!
I hate talking on the phone & I a technological moron who doesn't do skype.
I find texting so much easier!
Well we had been texting for months & we planned a date but I had to cancel due to work.
There came the question "are you a real person?"
I was like OH CRAP he thinks I am a 68year old man or something -- I met him and jeez I wish I would have kept him as just a text buddy!! What a waste... he was real - a real *kitten*!0 -
Who even watches MTV anymore? Crappy channel is crappy.
This0 -
I dated someone online for a while. It was a very intense relationship. We could talk for hours and hours and hours and never run out of things to say.
I later discovered he was married and had a toddler. Oops!
On the plus side, he was actually a he.
LOL!0 -
I have once when i was younger. He said he was 17 (i was 15) and from england. My mom found out and luckily had some friends at the police station and asked them to investigate. It ended up being a man in his middle 30's from kansas with a wife and children. CREEPY0
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My first real serious boyfriend I met on Myspace (way back when Myspace was cool). He was honest in who he said he was, as far as his legal name, gender, and background...less honest about being a decent guy who respected women and gave a *kitten* about anything other than his own ego. :laugh:0
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It seems strange in the age of Skype and Facetime that someone could actually talk to and have a "relationship" with someone else for YEARS and never see them real time! That is a major red flag! I have never been "catfished" but I know people who have, one guy I know was talking to this girl for like 1.5 years, he went to visit her TWICE and she never showed up, after much drama and some snooping he found out that SHE was actually a transsexual he and s/he was also 10 years older. Needless to say it didn't end well.
Probably the most messed up story was my best friend's younger sister who was "seeing" a dude for like 2 months, only they never talked on the phone, Skyped, Facetimed, nothing. It was basically e-mails, online messages and texts. Come to find out he was actually the 13 year old older brother of the girl she would babysit and she only found out because he kept going on and on about his new g/f but wouldn't share any real details about her, so as a joke (probably a bad one in hindsight) she snooped through his phone when she was babysitting one day and he had gone to the bathroom and saw HER phone number and HER texts....that was really f'd up. She never babysat for the family again unfortunately. To this day I wonder what it means that 19 year old could carry on a "relationship" with a 13 year for 2 months...0 -
Never happened to me. I'm just here for the lolz.0
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I'm going to date myself with this story, but here it goes. In 1987 I was stationed at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi and had been working with a man over the phone for a couple of years. I liked him a lot and probably had a little crush on him. I had to go to San Antonio for a meeting he was hosting. The airline lost my luggage, so I borrowed a friend's name tag and headed out to the meeting. When I got there I recognized the man I was crushing on by his voice and was stunned to find that rather than a big manly guy he was a little skinny not-so-manly guy. He didn't recognize me as I was wearing someone else's name tag, so I had a bit of time to observe before I spoke and he started to figure out who I was.
Not necessarily an online thing, but similar issue.0 -
Kinda... He was who he said he was, in that the pictures he used were taken eight years earlier. His lies kept piling up until I couldn't take anymore.0
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Before I share my story, I want to make two things clear: I am married and intend to stay that way. And NOTHING happened with the guy in the story below.
Years ago, when I was a senior in high school, I ended up spending the night at the guy's house (he was a junior at the same high school) because of really bad, threatening weather. I didn't like him then, so there was NOTHING between us. It was a safety issue.
Flash forward 30 years, and out of the blue the guy contacts me and we begin playing catch up. He comes here to my city, and my husband and I BOTH meet him for dinner. While at dinner, he tells me he is not married -- hasn't been for years, has NO children, has even had a vasectomy so he couldn't have any more children. He is "lonely", wants to find the "love of his life" and confesses that he wanted to date me 30 years ago, and is STILL crushing on me.
A couple years ago, he was in a car accident and suffered a serious injury. He kept telling me that the lawsuit he had was about to settle, and he would be receiving 1.4 million dollars from it. He wanted me to dump my husband (whom he met!), and run off with him to Costa Rica where we would have our "happily ever after" living in the warm sun and drinking margaritas on the beach, blah blah blah. I never agreed to this, I never gave him any idea that I was romantically interested in him (never was, never will be), yet he continued to offer me all sorts of wonderful gifts, and trips, etc., once the lawsuit settled. I found him to be a bit too preoccupied with trying to get me into bed, and started ignoring his texts, emails, etc.
Long story short -- he is currently married (has been for the last 8 years), and has 5 children. The fact that this douche nozzle could deny his CHILDREN absolutely disgusts me! As for the lawsuit and the big settlement? 75,000, and the insurance company is fighting it all the way to court. How do I know all this? His wife called me, after she found his email to me. She told me he has done this before to a variety of women, and has about 3 mistresses currently. Apparently, he has BPD and has relapsed into some fantasy world where he believes he's God's gift to women. What a SICK f*k.
CLARIFICATION: I DID NOT reciprocate those weird emails.0 -
I was happy to see he was who he said he was for a change. And, that cannot be the worst MTV show produced.... Also, thankfully its never happened to me.
Geordie shore the best!
what is Geordie shore? Jersey Shore?
It like th british verson! Set in Newcastle0 -
catfish proves how desperate some people are for love0
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I met my husband through online gaming. We were friends for a while through the game and he invited me to a public event with some other friends. One thing eventually led to another- nothing we ever said to each other online turned out to be false.
You have to be extremely careful with online interactions, but it's also worth remembering that you can be just as easily lied to in a bar, or at a dance class, or in a supermarket. Awareness and common sense should be in everything you do.0 -
It happened to me on myspace. Photoshopped pictures, goo lighting, angles ect. She had the balls to be upset when I told her she was about 100 pounds heavier than her pictures and she covered up the scars on her face! She even blogged about me for months after.
I was pissed I spent like £500 on the trip up north to see her!0 -
Yes, someone on MFP.Have you liked someone on-line without ever seeing them?
I did meet them and they were exactly who they said they were.Did you meet them only to find out it wasn't their actual pic..or gender?0 -
I met my husband 6 years ago online, he was better in person than online
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Never been Catfished.
Watched the show first and last time last night and it was everything I expected it to be, another sorry *kitten* 'reality' show.
Never met or wanted to meet any of my online 'friends'; male or female.
Always tell my online friends, when they want a description of me, I am a big fat unshaven, bald headed, hairy chested and back, denture wearing dude sitting in my stained tighty whiteys lusting over the keyboard and that most likely they are too.
After that discription they never ask for 'pictures' and I never offer or ask back.
Works everytime :-)
Second part is why in the heck would I ever want to someone from online, my life is way too complicated already.0
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