Re:Crazy people online
Crazy people online LettinGo: Am I the only one that finds these weirdos?
(Not you guys of course ... Ojarians are the only sane ones out there ;) )
Yesterday, this guy IMs me (on AOL) that he likes my profile, and we started chatting. The first thing he asked me was how old was I (normal) and how old were my children (strange, I ignored that one). When I didn't tell him how old my kids were, he asked again. I told him I wasn't comfortable discussing that. Then he asked me to send him a picture of me WITH my kids in it. What the heck? I said Noooo ... I do not send pics of my kids out to strangers. Oh, I should mention, BEFORE I even said no he wrote "I would never do anything to hurt anyone". THAT was alarming! I signed off. When I went back online later, he IMed me again. I was up front and told him that his interest in my children made me extremely uncomfortable, and he asked me to please give him a second chance, again saying he would never hurt anyone. Then he asked me if I could come to see him in NYC and bring the kids - we could take them to see the tree in Rockefeller and he would help me with the twins; I could carry one and he'd carry the other. This guy was totally CREEPING ME OUT! Yeah, I've talked to this guy for less than five minutes, the entire time he is asking about my kids and I am going to take them with me to meet him?
Obviously, at this point I blocked his a$$.
Then ... last night I get an email from someone saying that they were searching females profiles in NY (again, on AOL) and he liked mine. I emailed him back, was polite, asked his age, etc. and he wrote back telling me how he owns this recruiting business in Manhattan (yet he can't properly write one complete sentence with correct punctuation in an email) and he works out, blah blah blah. I didn't answer his second email yet. I didn't really think too much of it. I sign online this morning and he sends me an IM saying "Funny ... I never got a reply to that last email I sent you."
I thought he was playing around! But I said hello, sorry, asked how he was doing. I said I checked it but I was at work listening to AOL Radio (which I was!) and I was going to respond later. Then he wrote, "Please do me a favor?" And I said okay (thinking wtf?) then he wrote this whole long paragraph about stupid people who have time to check mail but no time to respond, something about it stroking my EGO? What the hell? I mean - he was really pissed!! Going on and on about selfish and this and that ...
So I wrote something along the lines that MAYBE some people just like to put a little thought and consideration into their emails before they respond ... maybe they have children and a home and a job to worry about ... You know what his response was?
"Lol ... drop dead"
Drop dead? What is WRONG WITH PEOPLE??!! I blocked him immediately so he can't IM or email me anymore ... but man, people are crazy!
So I've 'met' a possible pedophile and another psycho ... and, I'm not even searching out these people, they find me. Lucky me.
Am I the only one? Anyone else with weird/crazy people stories?
Kel
Re:Crazy people online lemondrop: Hi LettingGo,
OMG - that is funny as h#ll but scary too. Good thing you blocked both of those weirdo's. I had something similiar happen to me but on a much smaller scale. I signed up for an on-line dating site a while back and posted my photo and got a bunch of responses but the one that freaked me out was from some weirdo saying "I live in your neighborhood and HAVE to meet you - I am in love with you." This was his first (and last) message to me. But it freaked me out because I realized that now he knows what I look like (b/c I posted the photo- uggh). Needless to say, it kind of turned me off to the whole on-line dating scene. lol
Good luck,
LD
Re:Crazy people online computerperson: Kel--I read your story and thought I would make a quick suggestion. Could you blank out all of your profile in AOL? Age, children info, location, etc.? I normally keep everything I can blank or 'n/a' or something like that.
Please don't think I'm pointing at finger at you, what happened to you was totally out of line. I just thought I'd make a suggestion to help you try to not let that situation happen again.
Sorry to be brief, I'm just at work (like everyone else), but your post concerned me and I thought I'd make my suggestion.
CP
Re:Crazy people online LettinGo: CP -
Thanks for your concern. Honestly, I didn't think I gave out enough information on my profile to warrant any concern or attention like that ... the only reason the guy even knew I had children was because under Hobbies I wrote that "My children and my work come first" just so people are aware of that right off the bat. I don't even give my name. I thought I put minimal information there, but apparently not!
LD ... that is SCARY too!
I think I give up on men. I don't have time to go out and meet them, and I certainly don't have any luck online! Lol!
Kelly
