Salad_Baby
May 2nd, 2016, 01:30 PM
Hello everyone. I've got a nice, pleasant story to tell you all about why meeting people online can sometimes be absolutely terrible. Sitting comfortably?
I began talking to this girl I met on a chatroom online. We got talking about our interests, our hobbies, where abouts we lives, and photos of each other (I won't lie, she was pretty good looking) etc. before she asked me the somewhat straight-to-the-point question of whether I knew if anyone at my college fancied me or not. I said there was one girl I had heard rumours about liking me, but nothing concrete. She asked for a picture. I sent one.
For the next few hours, she did not stop requesting that I gave her the contact details of this girl. Obviously, I did not want to give away my friends name and details to a random person online (a person for whom I still was not entirely sure was a real 16 year old girl), but as a means to stop her going on about it, I created a fake account.
We got talking on the fake account (who I will now refer to as Hannah), as me posing as the girl that fancies me. I was doing this just as a test to see whether this person was genuine or was just a creep using me to get to girls. She repeatedly told Hannah of how she is bisexual, and that she and Hannah should meet and 'experiment'. She also mentioned her brother a few times, and that he had taken an interest in Hannah. She showed me a few photos of him, to which I replied 'no thanks'. I also repeatedly told her 'no thanks' to the idea of experimenting or dating.
This is where things took a dark turn.
She suddenly became very blunt. She wanted to end the conversation, repeatedly apologising and saying that she never should have talked to her, and that I and Hannah would make a great couple. This went on for (genuinely) an hour or two. Then she told me she would cut herself. Then she told me she was contemplating suicide because of this rejection. At this point I realised she had completely fallen in love with Hannah.
I felt awful.
I messaged her back as my normal self, and continued attempting to talk her out of cutting or killing herself. According to her, she became 'so crazy that I thought you were posing as Hannah'. I came clean. She became even more upset. I explained my reasoning, and she semi understood, but she was still insistent that she was going to leave and do something she had been 'thinking of doing for a while'.
My main reasoning, as I explained to her, was that I didn't trust her - for all I know, she may have been a 60 year old man with fake photos. I asked whether she could take a live photograph of her to prove she was real. She seemed quite offended. Eventually, she came 'clean' too. She revealed that the original photo she sent was of a friend, and proceeded to send a new one of her real self.
I still wasn't convinced.
Turns out, it was the brother the entire time. The two different photos he had sent were of his two sisters, and he was using me merely to get to talk to Hannah. As I speak, he is still trying to convince me to let him speak to Hannah.
Lesson of today - I thought I knew this lesson well enough already, as someone who has been on the internet for many years, but I cannot stress enough how much you should take everyone you meet online with a pinch of salt. It's very, very easy to lie.
TL;DR - Met a girl online. Turns out to be a guy. Typical.
I began talking to this girl I met on a chatroom online. We got talking about our interests, our hobbies, where abouts we lives, and photos of each other (I won't lie, she was pretty good looking) etc. before she asked me the somewhat straight-to-the-point question of whether I knew if anyone at my college fancied me or not. I said there was one girl I had heard rumours about liking me, but nothing concrete. She asked for a picture. I sent one.
For the next few hours, she did not stop requesting that I gave her the contact details of this girl. Obviously, I did not want to give away my friends name and details to a random person online (a person for whom I still was not entirely sure was a real 16 year old girl), but as a means to stop her going on about it, I created a fake account.
We got talking on the fake account (who I will now refer to as Hannah), as me posing as the girl that fancies me. I was doing this just as a test to see whether this person was genuine or was just a creep using me to get to girls. She repeatedly told Hannah of how she is bisexual, and that she and Hannah should meet and 'experiment'. She also mentioned her brother a few times, and that he had taken an interest in Hannah. She showed me a few photos of him, to which I replied 'no thanks'. I also repeatedly told her 'no thanks' to the idea of experimenting or dating.
This is where things took a dark turn.
She suddenly became very blunt. She wanted to end the conversation, repeatedly apologising and saying that she never should have talked to her, and that I and Hannah would make a great couple. This went on for (genuinely) an hour or two. Then she told me she would cut herself. Then she told me she was contemplating suicide because of this rejection. At this point I realised she had completely fallen in love with Hannah.
I felt awful.
I messaged her back as my normal self, and continued attempting to talk her out of cutting or killing herself. According to her, she became 'so crazy that I thought you were posing as Hannah'. I came clean. She became even more upset. I explained my reasoning, and she semi understood, but she was still insistent that she was going to leave and do something she had been 'thinking of doing for a while'.
My main reasoning, as I explained to her, was that I didn't trust her - for all I know, she may have been a 60 year old man with fake photos. I asked whether she could take a live photograph of her to prove she was real. She seemed quite offended. Eventually, she came 'clean' too. She revealed that the original photo she sent was of a friend, and proceeded to send a new one of her real self.
I still wasn't convinced.
Turns out, it was the brother the entire time. The two different photos he had sent were of his two sisters, and he was using me merely to get to talk to Hannah. As I speak, he is still trying to convince me to let him speak to Hannah.
Lesson of today - I thought I knew this lesson well enough already, as someone who has been on the internet for many years, but I cannot stress enough how much you should take everyone you meet online with a pinch of salt. It's very, very easy to lie.
TL;DR - Met a girl online. Turns out to be a guy. Typical.