I'm a black woman and I remember a guest asking me if I was born in Africa because my skin was so dark. I told them I just had gotten back from spending seven days in the Florida sun.

I had a client who did something like this just for kicks. This was way back in the 90's, seriously at the birth of the internet. He and his roommate were using a photo of supermodel Niki Taylor. I think they named her Chrissy. Chrissy was getting marriage proposals, airline tickets, the worse. These guys thought…

She spotted it first too, girl knows mah dick.

And if it isn't illegal (impersonation laws? Do they cover internet impersonation yet?), it absolutely should be because it's clear it's not intended to be a parody account, or anything else that's covered by free speech. Just because you have poor self-esteem and a lot of spare time on your hands, it doesn't mean you…

Gahhh I adore 3 Women. Shelley Duvall as Millie Lammoreaux is one of the weirdest, most amazing characters in film history, imo.

My niece used my picture to put as her MySpace profile, back in the day. It was fucking creepy. I was so pissed when I found out.

My cousin dis this when we were in high school. This was before myspace and facebook. We attended the same school so she'd do stuff like tell people that me and her were related, which we are, but she'd do a lot of stuff like talk shit about someone or be involved in less than honorable dealings and then tell people…

This is why it pays to be only marginally attractive.

Its Raffey.

a man stole my online dating profile, changed the pronouns, and posted it as his own. I've always wondered how "male me" fared in online dating. Maybe somewhere out there a woman has fallen in love with online me. I could be the Cyrano de Bergerac of online dating....

I'm pretty sure I would get the cops involved at the point when strangers started showing up at my house/dorm/job/wherever. Using someone else's pictures is weird. Sending people to their actual location because you happen to have it is fucking dangerous. One of these girls is going to end up getting attacked by some…

There's a woman I work with that does this. She's in three internet relationships with different men. I was so confused when she told me about it. But she said it's an escape for her; she's bored in her marriage and she has two children with special needs. I get that she needs an escape from a stressful life, but this…

So now this is another fear of mine...i will be overreacting about this is 3...2...

So what happens if one of the people being catfished ends up being a nut job? And then finds Actual Ellie and hurts/rapes/kills her? What then?

I actually had a friend who did this, for like a DECADE. They didn't emulate real people, but 'borrowed' many pictures and created many false identities online through which they lived. They'd always get in 'too deep' formulating relationships and plans to meet with people until it would all snow ball into that they…

It's fun to pretend to be someone else. Maybe catfishing is like a kind of cosplay but taken to a pathological level.

I found a picture of myself in a random meme once. The internet is weird!

That level of obsessiveness is creepy as hell. The person doing all this catfishing should probably get some medical help. This can't be healthy.

New life goal: Be pretty enough to be catfish bait.

This...is creepy. And it's happened to me and other dudes I know too, although not quite to such a degree. It's pretty surreal though seeing your body shots and dick pics show up in threads you didn't post them to.