Popular Culture Review 30.2
I ’ ve never actually met my friend . We chatted for a month or so and then started to talk on the phone . He was easy to talk to like a friend , funny , sweet . There were so many creepers that would message me about what they would do to me sexually . That was repulsive . Both old guys and young guys .
I also met a guy who I chatted with and he seemed normal and nice . Cute profile pic . We began to talk on the phone , but his voice didn ’ t match his pic . With determination I persuaded him into sending me a pic of himself at that very moment . He stammered and had excuses until he gave up and sent it . He was clearly not the person he was in his profile . He either aged 30 years or it was a picture of his son . I ’ ll never know .
After about 4 months I wasn ’ t even going on the site [ Plenty of Fish ] anymore but started receiving phone calls from around the country . I never answer calls if I don ’ t know the phone number . No voice messages were ever left . I also got weird texts asking me for sexual favors .
This had gone on for about a month . Calls almost every other day . I finally answered a call and this guy was trying to meet up with me for sex . I confronted him and asked him where he got my #. He said he had the wrong number . I finally got him to admit he found my # on back page which is an escort site . I truly believe someone from POF that I had engaged in phone conversations with put my # up on that site . I ended up changing my # and inactivated my POF account . It was a mess .
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So a little background about me , I ’ m 31 a male and bisexual [ sic ]. Being single for most of the last 15 years , I can say that single life is not all it ’ s cracked up to be . I will say that Tinder and other dating sites have made the process much easier in terms of finding a match . The use of immediate judgement on
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