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Have you ever wanted to start dating someone on a dating site they claim to be someone but then when you meet them they are REALLY someone else? in other words have you been catfished?
Yes, he used his friend's picture as a joke, but once we started talking, he decided to actually go through with meeting me. So a little while after we met, I gave him a hard time and said, hey, could you hook me up with your friend, he was really hot. bahahahaa!
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Yup. I had a guy once pretend he was some professional NFL Football player. Me not giving a damn about football had NO idea who he was.
I never suspected it would turn out being some elaborate hoax by a guy who I befriended at church. He would be talking to me on his ACTUAL fb page, while simultaneously being logged onto the FAKE fb page talking to me as the FAKE footballer.
Little did he know I didn't give a crap about famous athlestes, can't stand them. Anyway, I suspected something was odd and connected a few dots and found out what I was dealing with. Told the guy to get lost and that if he ever tried to contact me on fb or come near me at church, I'd call the police on him and put a restraining order on his delusional butt!
That put an end to that...but get this, his reasoning behind it was because he wanted to "test" my honest. He had asked me out a few months prior to the catfishing incident and I turned him down because at 16 I wasn't dating. He thought I was a liar and wanted to see if I'd go for a famous athlete hitting on me.
Yes, he used his friend's picture as a joke, but once we started talking, he decided to actually go through with meeting me. So a little while after we met, I gave him a hard time and said, hey, could you hook me up with your friend, he was really hot. bahahahaa!
I did that once actually, years ago when online dating was fairly new... she was not amused. Instantly blocked me. Not surprised. Only time I ever did that.
I've met people who represented themselves differently online than they turned out to be in person, but nothing major that I would call "catfishing." For example, a person might say they enjoy camping (which comes across as an active hobby) and it turns out they went camping once, 15 years ago. I think in some cases the people know they were lying, but I think in others they just saw themselves differently.
As far as false pictures, never happened (although I have seen people who in person were much older/fatter in person than in their pictures). I think that happens a lot. The person I am dating now (and others I dated in the past from OLD) commented that I looked better in person than in my pictures and genuinely seemed surprised by this. So I think it happens to both men and women.
That put an end to that...but get this, his reasoning behind it was because he wanted to "test" my honest. He had asked me out a few months prior to the catfishing incident and I turned him down because at 16 I wasn't dating. He thought I was a liar and wanted to see if I'd go for a famous athlete hitting on me.
"catfished" .. that's a new term for me. Sounds like a bait-and-switch...
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