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1:16 pm - 01/16/2013

‘Catfish’ Creators Talk Pros, Cons of Online Dating

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Maybe it’s the human interest piece, maybe it’s the relevance of online dating in the increasingly complexity of our digital and real lives, maybe it’s the craziness of some of the encounters — either way, something about Catfish is resonating with viewers.

Nev Schulman and Max Joseph, creators of MTV’s latest hit, which explores online relationships and, talk to The Hollywood Reporter talk about the show, which has quickly drawn in a substantial and engaged fanbase since its November premiere, MTV’s highest rated for a new show since 2007.

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rolt_me 16th-Jan-2013 06:51 pm (UTC)
Has anyone found profiles of their friends on OKC or something? Someone assuage my fears that'll happen beccause that's my #1 fear preventing me from trying. I guess it'd be easier to find if I list it under m4m only.
30_cent_whore 16th-Jan-2013 06:58 pm (UTC)
One time I came across a profile of a customer who always comes into my store. Aaaakward.
invisible_cunt 16th-Jan-2013 06:58 pm (UTC)
my friend's brother looked at my profile on okc
hella awkward

i've also had my neighbour check out my profile, and a dude i went to elementary/high school with's younger brother. he was creepy and butthurt and i'm pretty sure i saw him at the mall shortly after.

i've had a dude who lives around the corner from me message me too.....
sweetlilcanuck 16th-Jan-2013 07:06 pm (UTC)
Came across one of the ~popular guys from my high school there, and I was so embarrassed, because now he knows I'm on there, too.
jammyjam 16th-Jan-2013 07:09 pm (UTC)
a friend of mine found me on Match. that's not OKC, obviously, but i guess it shows that it can happen on any site. it was awkward and embarrassing for me, lol.
bees_beads 16th-Jan-2013 07:19 pm (UTC)
My friends are pretty open about their OKC use so I wouldn't be too worried about me finding them/one of them finding me, but apparently a guy I was seeing was looking at my friend's profile and she told me everything he had on there. He wasn't my boyfriend or anything so I wasn't mad about it but it was still really weird.
nannerpuss 16th-Jan-2013 07:41 pm (UTC)
Yeah, and you can see when/who views your profile, so I saw a listing in which this guy was a result for me and I was like "NOPE, BYE"
stellar_kar 16th-Jan-2013 08:32 pm (UTC)
I found my cousins but we were actually looking for a co-workers ( to see how honest he was because he kept getting dates and he's a huge creep)

The odds of yours being discovered though I think are pretty slim unless you live in a small area
fuckmyass 16th-Jan-2013 08:48 pm (UTC)
I signed up for Plenty of Fish less than a week ago (just cus the area of town I live in is full of drunk, poor, idiot college dudes) and a day later a guy messaged me that he sees me at this bar I frequent a lot. FUCK. I liked all the messages I got for like two days, now I haven't checked it for like 3 days.
saintssin 16th-Jan-2013 08:52 pm (UTC)
Edit: Found my *best friend's little sister once.

ew.


Edited at 2013-01-16 08:59 pm (UTC)
homefry9785 16th-Jan-2013 09:33 pm (UTC)
So far I haven't seen anyone that I know already on OKC, and if anyone has seen me, they didn't view my profile. My one friend signed up for PoF and the first person it recommended for her was her coworker.
swim_thedepths 16th-Jan-2013 10:04 pm (UTC)
I made an OKC profile since ONTD was pissing me with laughter as they showed creepy/desperate PMs. Nothing creepy ever happened, tho, so I forgot I had the profile until my friend Matt stumbled upon it and messaged me. It wasn't very embarrassing, tho, I guess? lol
dannysstargirl 16th-Jan-2013 11:02 pm (UTC)
Yes, I found a friend (well more a friend of a friend) on OKC. I wasn't looking for him; I think they just suggested him to me or something. Of course I HAD to click on his profile, even though that meant he saw that I looked at it. I looked at some of his answers to questions and they were just awful. Then I also saw him on Match but I didn't want to be a creeper and there was no way to look at his profile anonymously, so I didn't look at it.
_keng_ 17th-Jan-2013 02:56 am (UTC)
Two things...

1) I came across my sister's jackass of an ex-bf on there once. I laughed because he came off as such a dork on the site.

2) I had a guy I used to go to high school with contact me "just to say hi." I was mortified of this... not because someone I knew found me on a dating site (that doesn't embarrass me at all), but because I knew that he had likely gone through my question on OkC and saw the sex-related ones. From then-on, ALL of my sex-related questions were set to private.
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