Was looking for friends but found two creeps

Ali_Darling_
Ali_Darling_ Posts: 96 Member
in Motivation and Support
I posted two discussions on asking for weight loss friends on keto for motivation and insight. Two men sent me friend requests. Neither on keto, no mentions of weight loss journey, just eventually asking if I'm married, and if so am I happily married.

So, to be clear, I am happily married and just looking for some keto friends to motivate me and share their insights while being on keto and how it's helped them.
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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,398 Member
    Yeah, gotta say that the vast, vast majority of friend requests on here are scammers pretending to be deployed dudes.
  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,373 Member
    From what it sounds like, scammers are the only people sending friend requests any more. There’s virtually no functionality to the “friends” function other than being able to see the food diary of people that have their privacy set to only allow friends to see the diary and to be able to send private messages to each other.

    I’m of the opinion that anything someone wants to converse with me about can be discussed on the community boards. There’s something fishy if it has to be a secret. I’d be willing to bet the “friends” you made haven’t ever read the boards, much less posted.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,398 Member
    COGypsy wrote: »
    From what it sounds like, scammers are the only people sending friend requests any more. There’s virtually no functionality to the “friends” function other than being able to see the food diary of people that have their privacy set to only allow friends to see the diary and to be able to send private messages to each other.

    I’m of the opinion that anything someone wants to converse with me about can be discussed on the community boards. There’s something fishy if it has to be a secret. I’d be willing to bet the “friends” you made haven’t ever read the boards, much less posted.

    Agreed. I dislike private messages, I am perfectly content to converse out here on the community where I will get relevant conversation from real people. Even when the friend request is legit, I find it too time consuming and tedious to 'chat' back and forth in private messages.
  • Ali_Darling_
    Ali_Darling_ Posts: 96 Member
    That's good to know. Both were in fact "deployed" been a while since I've been active on here so I can see it changed a lot. Thanks guys.

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