9:53 pm - 01/30/2013
To some extent, we've all done it.
Catfish Lite: Don’t Pretend You’ve Never Lied Online
Lately, the concept of "catfishing" — luring someone into an online relationship by pretending to be someone that you're not — has been surrounded by its fair share of controversy, but how controversial is it in actuality? Believe it or not, a little controlled catfishing is something that plenty of the Instant Message generation has experimented with, even if we're unwilling to admit it. Really, who hasn't tried to escape their reality by pretending to be a 17-year-old varsity baseball player in an N*SYNC chat room every now and then?
This morning's Today Show featured a segment from Dr. Phil McGraw's upcoming interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Tuiasosopo, for those of you at home, is the 22-year-old man who became a household name after being exposed by Deadspin as the man behind Lennay Kekua, the fake dead girlfriend of Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o. Tuiasosopo, who used photos of a stranger to woo Te'o online, confessed to Dr. Phil that, while Lennay Kekua was a lie, all of "her" (his) feelings were very real.
McGraw tells Today:
Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love. I asked him straight up, "Was this a romantic relationship with you?" And he says yes. I said, "Are you then therefore gay?" And he said, "When you put it that way, yes." And then he caught himself and said, "I am confused."
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Lately, the concept of "catfishing" — luring someone into an online relationship by pretending to be someone that you're not — has been surrounded by its fair share of controversy, but how controversial is it in actuality? Believe it or not, a little controlled catfishing is something that plenty of the Instant Message generation has experimented with, even if we're unwilling to admit it. Really, who hasn't tried to escape their reality by pretending to be a 17-year-old varsity baseball player in an N*SYNC chat room every now and then?
This morning's Today Show featured a segment from Dr. Phil McGraw's upcoming interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Tuiasosopo, for those of you at home, is the 22-year-old man who became a household name after being exposed by Deadspin as the man behind Lennay Kekua, the fake dead girlfriend of Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o. Tuiasosopo, who used photos of a stranger to woo Te'o online, confessed to Dr. Phil that, while Lennay Kekua was a lie, all of "her" (his) feelings were very real.
McGraw tells Today:
Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love. I asked him straight up, "Was this a romantic relationship with you?" And he says yes. I said, "Are you then therefore gay?" And he said, "When you put it that way, yes." And then he caught himself and said, "I am confused."
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Mostly fanfic websites and a few lj communities/posts
I remember being banned and not knowing why.
The intended victim — identified only as a 43-year-old man from Sao de Jose Rio Preto – knew something was going on when he noticed an unfamiliar odor coming from his wife’s freshly poisoned nether region.
But here’s the thing about vaginas, as this woman soon learned: They are very porous.
Realizing that his wife was probably absorbing a majority of the poison she had intended to kill him with, he brought her to the hospital and saved her life.
This guy! He is totally down to perform oral sex 24/7 and will generously rush you to the emergency room after you try to kill him. And they say chivalry is dead!
But he is nobody’s fool: Sources reveal the man intends to sue his wife for attempted murder.
"i walk into the common room. i sit down. i pull out my potions book and study. ron walks in and kisses me. 'oh hi darling' "
I'll admit, there was a time after shortly getting my heartbroken I perused the personals and just seeing what was out there. But then I saw some of the crazy stuff like one guy just wanting to get you pregnant, but he didn't want any responsibility for the kid afterwards (He had a picture and it was eww). There's also the "let's start out as fuck buddies and then begin a relationship" guys....And the "just platonic" cuddlers, oh man, one of them uploaded his picture and I was like NOPE YOU WANT MORE THAN CUDDLING!!!
The saddest one I saw was an ad that a 70+ year old man's neighbor lady put up for him saying that he was really nice and sweet, but was lonely after his wife passed or something like that. Broke my heart.
and they're always super creepy! Like "hey girl, you look so fine. I wanna talk to you/Kiss you/feel you. But how?"
... And I conveniently found one just now.
I need the support of my kayaking buddies right now.
I never used it (maybe because I was in Australia?) - all I did was look up pictures of the backstreet boys. So many shitty geocities fansites omg
21/f/ny
i also pretended to like *nsync and some girl was like "so whos your favorite member who do you think sings best???" i frantically searched for their names and i just picked one at random. "uuuuhhh JC!!!"
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF
WHY IS YOUR COMPUTER SO OUTDATED?!
I remember I ended up in one chatroom posing as an 18-year-old... at the time I thought I was really mature but looking back it was more likely that the other people in those chatrooms were either really immature or also lying-ass preteens.