Have you been CATFISHED?

Bankman1989
Bankman1989 Posts: 1,116 Member
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Ok i am confessing to watching the worst produced show on tv! Catfish on MTV is about people who have online dated someone without seeing them via skype or webcam.

You would think NO ONE is this gullible! But week after week it happens over and over! Except last week. For the first time BOTH WERE WHO THEY SAID THEY WERE!

So here it is: A chance to confess. Have you liked someone on-line without ever seeing them? Did you meet them only to find out it wasn't their actual pic..or gender?
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  • GoldenGirl1979
    GoldenGirl1979 Posts: 716 Member
    bumping to read funny stories later :laugh: :tongue:
  • HarryDotter
    HarryDotter Posts: 32
    Never.
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    I'm a french model
  • Katemarie34
    Katemarie34 Posts: 144 Member
    Bump for the stories :). I have never had that happen, and to be honest I love that show!
  • IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym
    IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym Posts: 5,573 Member
    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.
  • HarryDotter
    HarryDotter Posts: 32
    Who even watches MTV anymore? Crappy channel is crappy.
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    I haven't, but those who have met me, have :laugh:
  • cclarkcts
    cclarkcts Posts: 97
    I'm a french model

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    bonjour
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  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    No. But then again, I'm an NFL linebacker that used to play at Notre Dame, so I don't need to resort to online dating to meet women. :wink:
  • battyg13
    battyg13 Posts: 508 Member
    Jersey and Geordie shore are worse. much worse like they should all be buried in a bunker and nuked.
  • Melissa22G
    Melissa22G Posts: 847 Member
    Yep, and have witnesses to it too.

    Never would share on this forum.
  • luvJOJO
    luvJOJO Posts: 1,881 Member
    I'm a french model

    eh, Bonjour
  • Followingsea
    Followingsea Posts: 407 Member
    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!
  • mister_universe
    mister_universe Posts: 6,664 Member
    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.
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    Back in the early days of the Internet is was very common.
  • MelissaL582
    MelissaL582 Posts: 1,422 Member
    I was watching that last night. I don't think it's the worst MTV show ever.

    I wouldn't say I developed a relationship with someone online, but I did meet up with someone many years ago from a dating site and he was nothing like his picture. Lets just say I cut that "date" short.
  • Juliejustsaying
    Juliejustsaying Posts: 2,332 Member
    nope...usually I find the guys I chose to meet in person look better in person than their pics. No spark, I move on. Now they have misrepresented their relationship status before...ugh, but apparently that is just a dude thing. :noway:

    and for the record, you can usually tell when someone is lying consistently to you over the interwebz. They tend to avoid your questions.
  • dsignite88
    dsignite88 Posts: 3 Member
    Sadly yes lol. It was supposed to be a young guy but turned out to be a dirty old man. I learned my lesson lol.
  • So_Much_Fab
    So_Much_Fab Posts: 1,146 Member
    Have you liked someone on-line without ever seeing them?
    Yes
    Did you meet them only to find out it wasn't their actual pic...or gender?
    No

    I would never let online communications last for very long without talking/Skyping/meeting. I've heard of people that have been in "relationships" for years yet have never met IRL. That's just crazy.
  • QuincyChick
    QuincyChick Posts: 269 Member
    A long time ago I was on an internet dating site and was talking to this guy. We seemed to have a ton in common- music, films, etc. We talked back and forth for about a week or two and decided to meet up at a local subway stop and take it from there.

    I got off the train and took one look at him and walked right back onto the train and went home. The ONLY reason i even recognized him was because of a very unique tattoo he said that he had on his calf. Otherwise, he looked absolutely nothing like his pictures. He was much older and much heavier than he had mentioned.

    Later on, he calls me and asks what went wrong. I was honest. I told him that I saw him and was upset that he lied, so I turned around and went home. He got very upset - saying that he didn't lie, that he just wanted to "put his best foot forward" and that if he told him his real age/weight I wouldn't have agreed to meet him. He was wrong- I totally would have met him, and I told him that, but lying right off the bat sent me running in the other direction.
  • vjohn04
    vjohn04 Posts: 2,276 Member
    I met a guy when I was in high school / freshman year of college on IRC. I went and visited him when I was in college for a weekend in Boston.

    They were exactly who they said they were. It was a nice visit, just friends - no hanky panky. Would not do it again, because it was a dicey thing to do 13 years ago, and even more dicey now.
  • omgitsgarry
    omgitsgarry Posts: 138
    I don't really know if this counts as catfishing, but was talking to a girl on a dating website who used 5 year old pictures of herself when she was skinnier (she was 100 pounds heavier) and adopted a different personality so I'd like her. I met her three times before bailing on her for her best friend (who was letting me in on her real personality) at the time who actually acted like she was pretending to be. It all worked out in the end, because I later found out she was using me to make him jealous enough to want to date her again.
  • luceegj
    luceegj Posts: 246 Member
    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!
  • LassoOfTruth
    LassoOfTruth Posts: 735 Member
    Hmm, I met my current bf 4 years ago online. He was just as he described, thankfully. :)
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    what do you mean? People imposter others on the internet?
  • IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym
    IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym Posts: 5,573 Member
    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?
  • xmrsdurhamx
    xmrsdurhamx Posts: 8 Member
    I actually met my husband online :) Although, I knew he was real before he came to visit me since we both had cams. 4 years strong, married, 1 son, purchased our first house this year.... living the American dream <3 Better man than any I have met back home.
  • elledeery
    elledeery Posts: 866
    I've been catfished twice. The first time, I talked to this guy and thought he was legit, really nice, seemed to be local as he agreed to meet at a very well known place in my city, when I got there I waited for an hour, he was a no show. We tried again a second time after he had apologized and said something came up but once again he was a no show and to this day I'm uncertain if he was actually some weirdo from the other side of the world who just smiled and nodded when I suggested a meeting place or he did show up, didn't like what he saw and bailed before I could spot him.

    Second experience, I was talking to a guy who had gone to the same high school as a few of my good friends so I knew he was legit, we sent pics back and forth and agreed to meet up and go to a movie. He arrived on time, however, once I spotted him and smiled, he walked another few steps toward me then turned and walked away, never spoke to me again.

    Apparently I'm a troll to the online dating world haha
  • cedarblack
    cedarblack Posts: 63 Member
    Haaa! When I was a fair bit younger I spoke to a guy online who went to Uni in London with one of my mates, I never saw a picture of him, in fact I don't even think I asked my friend what he looked like! We spoke every night online, then starting phoning each other and eventually after a couple of months he asked me out (!)

    I really liked him so I said yes, so he came up to the midlands to visit me and we ended up dating for just over a year. Suppose it's not THAT dodgy - I knew he couldn't be a total weirdo otherwise my friend would have told me, but it's the first time I've ever started dating someone without actually knowing what they looked like at all!!
  • 1shauna1
    1shauna1 Posts: 993 Member
    I admit to watching that show too....the first episode, the "guy" was actually a girl! Too weird.

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