I don't know what to call this post......
Hello all.
Long post alert...dont read if you bore easily!! Lol.
Back in the early days of SW....over 9 years ago, I developed a friendship here with a sweet young man. ( Bob) We talked for hours. He needed a friend and I listened I guess. Anyone of my friends here know the story....so I wont go on too much.
We had a mutual friend here whom he knew in RL. They fell out and both confided in me at times.
For over 4 years i corresponded with these friends. At times, i did have doubts they were who they claimed to be.....and eventually......i discovered a pic of Bob online and it turned out he was quite a sucessful man with a big online presence. On social media, i found profiles for him and found all photos of his family he had sent me over the years. This was Bob! But of course.....i realised highly sucessful Bob could not have been the man I knew from here as this guy had been far too busy building up sucessful businesses and travelling around the world living the most amazing life ......NOT sitting at his PC sharing his woes for hours on end to some old agony aunt halfway across the world.
Anyway.....i messaged Not Bob and told him my story. I told him someone had clearly used his photos and passed them off as themselves and their family. Even names were very similar. Not Bob was pleasent to me.....very puzzled....but he clearly had no clue who I was. We exchanged a number of messages and wished each other well and ...... it might seem odd to some of you...I followed him online ( which he was ok with... he has 1000s of followers). Although I knew this man was not Bob.....seeing the photos of him I was so familiar with ...... it was kind of nice seeing him clearly living a wonderful life.....not the life Bob had portrayed to me of great sadness and heartache.
I realised Bob and the mutual friend were actually the same person as once I told the friend i'd found 'Not Bob' online, the email addresses i had for her and Bob completely disappeared and I was no longer able to contact either of them! I never heard from either of them again.......i'm pretty sure the person behind Bob fooled a number of other people here too!
I often wonder what happened to that person...and what sort of life they have now and if they are happy. Or....if they are still spinning yarns here to reel in kindly gullible people?
Anyhow......the reason for this post? Why Im I dragging this up again after so long?
Well.... Not Bob got married!!! I know he wasn't really my friend, but I associated this face to Bob the entire time of our 'friendship' so seeing Not Bob looking so happy on his wedding pics brought a smile to my face.
Congrats to Not Bob and his beautiful new wife.
I wonder if and hope that Bob has found some happiness too. ❤
Long post alert...dont read if you bore easily!! Lol.
Back in the early days of SW....over 9 years ago, I developed a friendship here with a sweet young man. ( Bob) We talked for hours. He needed a friend and I listened I guess. Anyone of my friends here know the story....so I wont go on too much.
We had a mutual friend here whom he knew in RL. They fell out and both confided in me at times.
For over 4 years i corresponded with these friends. At times, i did have doubts they were who they claimed to be.....and eventually......i discovered a pic of Bob online and it turned out he was quite a sucessful man with a big online presence. On social media, i found profiles for him and found all photos of his family he had sent me over the years. This was Bob! But of course.....i realised highly sucessful Bob could not have been the man I knew from here as this guy had been far too busy building up sucessful businesses and travelling around the world living the most amazing life ......NOT sitting at his PC sharing his woes for hours on end to some old agony aunt halfway across the world.
Anyway.....i messaged Not Bob and told him my story. I told him someone had clearly used his photos and passed them off as themselves and their family. Even names were very similar. Not Bob was pleasent to me.....very puzzled....but he clearly had no clue who I was. We exchanged a number of messages and wished each other well and ...... it might seem odd to some of you...I followed him online ( which he was ok with... he has 1000s of followers). Although I knew this man was not Bob.....seeing the photos of him I was so familiar with ...... it was kind of nice seeing him clearly living a wonderful life.....not the life Bob had portrayed to me of great sadness and heartache.
I realised Bob and the mutual friend were actually the same person as once I told the friend i'd found 'Not Bob' online, the email addresses i had for her and Bob completely disappeared and I was no longer able to contact either of them! I never heard from either of them again.......i'm pretty sure the person behind Bob fooled a number of other people here too!
I often wonder what happened to that person...and what sort of life they have now and if they are happy. Or....if they are still spinning yarns here to reel in kindly gullible people?
Anyhow......the reason for this post? Why Im I dragging this up again after so long?
Well.... Not Bob got married!!! I know he wasn't really my friend, but I associated this face to Bob the entire time of our 'friendship' so seeing Not Bob looking so happy on his wedding pics brought a smile to my face.
Congrats to Not Bob and his beautiful new wife.
I wonder if and hope that Bob has found some happiness too. ❤
