Yes, for sure! That is exactly the point I made in the second to last paragraph: "The idea that this is the first or only homeless person to barter sex for a place to clean themselves or a warm bed is what is absolutely the most fucking laughable aspect of this story." Thanks!

Happy to see you here DrNerdLove! I love reading both Kotaku and Jezebel and the insane statements they sometimes make about the oposite sex is baffling. If they would just open their eyes a bit more they would see that both sexes feel terribly insecure about sex and relationships all the time.

I've read a lot of concern over what non-verbal/physical affirmation could possibly mean. I can only conclude that these people (read: men) have either never had sex or never had sex with a conscious person.

"Love isn't just brains, it's blood and flesh and sweat and pheromones and you can't really leave that part out."

I think in a lot of ways this comes down to one of those "here is the list of flags, if you've checked more than one, be wary." You sound like the kind of person where if you DID end up clicking with someone online you'd take it into offline life relatively quickly, so your lack of online presence might make someone…

Which one? The 7 foot tall roadblock or the little basketcase on wheels?

What's in the bottle egg, magic potion?

I was a victim of this and it took me a long time to realize that the person I was talking to was a fake. I was able to do some detective work and noticed the file names of the pictures she sent me are similar the ones dled from facebook. I was able to turn it into a facebook link and it led me to a profile of…

I think it's still a good point, though. There's a good chance that you'll be able to find at least a Facebook profile or something. Sure, plenty of people don't use social media, but I would assume that the majority (at least of people in a certain age range) does.

This is becoming a problem with employers also, if you don't have a bunch of social media stuff all over the place, they think you're lying about it. A friend of mine had a job interview and they tried to hunt him down for weeks all over the internet but he just wasn't there because he didn't have any of those kinds…

From what I know about the whole catfishing phenomenon (and this is based almost entirely on the original Catfish documentary and the show on MTV), both the "catfisher" and "catfishee" tend to be the sort of people that do in fact spend a significant portion of their lives on social media, and you would sorta…

Honestly, if this guy is actually a celebrity as he claims, I'd be worried this could easily turn into a stalking situation. I realize it could end up that way even if he isn't a celebrity depending on how much personal information he shared, but I feel like it's probably easier for someone to get that information…

If you're forming romantic relationships with people you meet on Twitter, you're not one of those people who shuns social media, though.

I'm not sure your case is very relevant here. You don't have much of an online presence, but you're also not interested in making connections with people online, so it seems unlikely that you'd be forming a relationship with someone over Twitter or some other form of media where catfishing was a possibility. For…

I meant my husband online 10 years ago via a game. I believe you can find love online but this whole thing is setting off my danger run away alarm like no bodies business.

I was actually in a similar situation, but this was before the ubiquity of Facebook and social media. All we had were Livejournals and Open Diary (which is what I used). I had met someone on Open Diary as just friends. She was about 6 years younger than I was (so, at 22, she was 16). We were just friends as I sought…

It's something that God Only Knows.

The people who see tons of flaws in themselves tend to have the fewest flaws. That's because the people who don't see the flaws in themselves never bother improving themselves since they think they're flawless.