Now I Think I've Seen it All.. Read This

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Registered: 09-08-2006
Now I Think I've Seen it All.. Read This
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Mon, 10-30-2006 - 9:08am
So here's a scary story for everyone that does online dating… Now I seriously think I've seen it all on here…. Just a lesson that you never really do know who you're talking to. I've been talking to a guy for probably a little over a month now that I met on myspace. His profile has a picture of a good looking businessman in a suit and tie as his main photo, and a second photo which is obviously also the same man. It said he is 28, blah blah blah. So we've been chatting online and brought it over to IM's on aol. One night I said that we should talk on the phone. He said it was late but he would take a raincheck on that. I didn’t think anything of it. Then again the other day I said "you know you still have that raincheck, why don’t you let me call you" and he said he really should go. I said to him basically that something didn’t seem right to me that he was avoiding actually speaking to me. Silence on his end. I told him to tell me what it was and I promised I wouldn’t get mad (a lie of course if it was really bad)… I asked if I could guess and he said ok. I said "I think you have a girlfriend" he said "no" so I asked "well then what is it?" So he goes on to tell me that his myspace profile is an experiment for a thesis in grad school. He made a profile with an unattractive picture just to see how many responses he'd get as opposed to another profile (the one I answered) with an attractive picture. He did the same with women's pictures he said. He said "then I got caught up in talking with you and I really got to like you as a person"…He apologized and said he hopes I'm not mad at him… I think this is so disturbing. I mean, it's an interesting experiment, yes, but it just shows how you really truly cant trust anyone out there…
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 10-30-2006 - 1:36pm

Honestly... I put up a profile just to test the waters and see what was out there.


Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~