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Does it hurt you when someone catfishes you?

There was a girl I was cool with on periscope and she turned out to be fake and she disappeared on me. I was really bummed. I considered her a friend. Why do people create fake profiles and stories online?

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Serenitree · F

I understand. I befriended someone on EP. She claimed to be an 18 year old girl living in France, but originally from England. She had a huge, very real back story, so I believed everything she told me. She was adopted, had leukaemia, needed a bone marrow transplant. Miraculously, her bio mom happened to be in France for some other thing and her blood type was a match, and when they tested her, she was a perfect donor. This went on for months of chemo, and relapses and transfusions. I fell for her story. But one day my daughter was using my iPad, and my EP account was open on our private messages. She asked me why Madeline was sending me all these pictures from Grey's Anatomy. We read through all the exchanges and everything she told me was from a story line on that show. When I asked her why she did all this, her account was deleted, her Facebook account was deleted. And I never heard from her again. Unless she is here, on SW and catfishing someone else.

Jan. 4/17
4:31 pm

wingeyes · 36-40, F

omg that's sick im sorry

Serenitree · F

@wingeyes: and yet, my first rush of emotion was relief. All those months, I thought I was talking to a dying kid who had a dream of becoming a surgeon so she could save lives, I was so sad, because I was sure she would die. When I realized it was all a lie, all I felt was glad that it wasn't a dying kid after all.

Jan. 4/17 5:25 pm