Catfishing

[Rogue25]

What are your thoughts on it? Harmless fun (depending on context)? Dangerous deception? A side effect of our lives being ever-increasingly linked to the internet?

Have you ever been catfished or been a catfish?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have a feeling that this has nothing to do with trotlines...

 

[RobDownSouth]

I have a feeling that this has nothing to do with trotlines...

Here on the General Board we refer to catfishing as "Karen Krafting", in honor of your buddy Vetteman's first-ever successful cybersex tryst.

 

[CandiCame]

Here on the General Board we refer to catfishing as "Karen Krafting", in honor of your buddy Vetteman's first-ever successful cybersex tryst.

I wish I was here for that. I missed the whole Karen thing.

 

[RjThoughts]

I wish I was here for that. I missed the whole Karen thing.

So did I.

 

[Aquagal]

What are your thoughts on it? Harmless fun (depending on context)? Dangerous deception? A side effect of our lives being ever-increasingly linked to the internet?

Have you ever been catfished or been a catfish?

Someone tricked you didn't they?

 

[spacekowboy]

Chicken livers make great catfish bait.

So do shrimp, so I'm told. Tad pricey for my blood, though.

 

[lovetoread]

I refuse to do the noodling thing.

 

[dolf]

 

[RobDownSouth]

Noodling for catfish

 

[Mr_Jon_Thon]

I've been dating a lovely woman online for the last nine weeks. We text, sext, and IM all the time. It can get OMG Hot. Her job and time zone doesn't allow us to talk on the phone yet. I've offered to fly out and meet her, but she says she's too busy right now. And the pics she sends are jaw dropping. She's supermodel hot, I swear. I'm thinking about proposing via snapchat on our two and half month anniversary. So, no. Never been.

 

[dolf]

 

[Saint Peter]

I refuse to do the noodling thing.

Just do it.


I will be right here in the boat supporting you every step of the way.

 

[garbage can]

Here on the General Board we refer to catfishing as "Karen Krafting", in honor of your buddy Vetteman's first-ever successful cybersex tryst.

I wish I was here for that. I missed the whole Karen thing.

RDS likes to keep the Karen Kraft story alive.....but he imagines things to make the story more thrilling..... like what you see in red. You might say he's a liar.


EDIT:...I've never heard "catfishing" referred to a "Karen Krafting"
But that's just me speaking.

 

[RobDownSouth]

RDS likes to keep the Karen Kraft story alive.....but he imagines things to make the story more thrilling..... like what you see in red. You might say he's a liar.


EDIT:...I've never heard "catfishing" referred to a "Karen Krafting"
But that's just me speaking.

Oh dear, I completely forgot to mention "Karen"'s other conquest, the Garbage Can.

Forgive me, Garby, I didn't mean to sleight you....

 

[garbage can]

Oh dear, I completely forgot to mention "Karen"'s other conquest, the Garbage Can.

Forgive me, Garby, I didn't mean to sleight you....

Hey, I read the whole thread, very interesting.

Only problem was that DCL supposedly called Karen to cancel the meeting.
I assume Karen was Karen at the time....not Ken,

 

[Que]

I am reasonable certain that I run into people on the regular that are not who the present themselves to be.

For various reasons I am not always the "authentic" self I present here, warts and all. Most often there is real person behind a character, and I am merely the facilitator, setting up blogs for them, that sort of things. It occasionally leads to awkward intercepts of messages. Usually the person I am editing/ghosting writing/promoting for and I have a pretty good laugh about it.

I dunno if I am as interested in helping people tell their stories as I once was. I have found that people that can't be arsed to figure these things out don't seem to keep at it long once I take the training wheels off.

I once started a project with a master blog that was to have guests stay and blog their stories until either, their supply of up to that point life experiences was tapped, or the impetus for their adventuring out changed. There is a real regular predictable cycle to these things...most popular blogs go dark withing two years.

Ironically, my project to build a blog that wouldn't go dark but get infused regularly...went dark.

On a fun note...for the sake of discussion...lets say that in another guise I WAS Karen Kraft... I guess I would know for sure if Rob's allegations were true or nonsense wouldn't I? I would also know whether Rob is projecting. Evil grin.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

What are your thoughts on it? Harmless fun (depending on context)? Dangerous deception? A side effect of our lives being ever-increasingly linked to the internet?

Have you ever been catfished or been a catfish?

What a stupid idea. Most cats HATE the water! Does this animal look like it would have the least bit of interest in your bait or lure?

Besides wildlife managers can't keep the lakes stocked long enough for a healthy population to take hold. After five minutes or so most of the kittens have swum to shore and run off.

http://cdn.cats-paradise.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wet-cat-pictures.jpg

 

[Que]

What a stupid idea. Most cats HATE the water! Does this animal look like it would have the least bit of interest in your bait or lure?

Besides wildlife managers can't keep the lakes stocked long enough for a healthy population to take hold. After five minutes or so most of the kittens have swum to shore and run off.

I have a firm policy of acknowledging all instances of audible mirth. Well played.

 

[SolusX]

I think it can be ok, If it's just harmless fun. But if you're talking to someone often, making some kind of relationship (friend or more) then that's where I think it's wrong. But it's the Internet, so be wary people!

 

[dolf]

What are your thoughts on it? Harmless fun (depending on context)? Dangerous deception? A side effect of our lives being ever-increasingly linked to the internet?

Have you ever been catfished or been a catfish?

I finally saw the show! remembered seeing the thread title and had an 'aha!' moment.

I've been catfished. sorta. is there a word for leading on the liar, playing like you're falling for it and falling for them, going for the big emotional dramas, playing out a bigger pile of bullshit right back at them? because that shit is fun. the reasons they come up with for not being able to contact you are insane. the life stories they concoct, surreal.

 

[Laurel]

I've been dating a lovely woman online for the last nine weeks. We text, sext, and IM all the time. It can get OMG Hot. Her job and time zone doesn't allow us to talk on the phone yet. I've offered to fly out and meet her, but she says she's too busy right now. And the pics she sends are jaw dropping. She's supermodel hot, I swear. I'm thinking about proposing via snapchat on our two and half month anniversary. So, no. Never been.

LOL

Back in the early early days of Lit when I was much more naive, this guy Flagg was outed as playing a female alt named Rachel Picabia. I was absolutely stunned. Why would anyone do that? I wondered. It seemed like such a bizarre thing to do.

Over the years I've known many people who are a different gender on the Internet than they are IRL. Most of those are writers who use an opposite gender penname because it fits their subject matter or for other authorly reasons. But there have also been many whose reasons I can only guess. Some people say that men catfishing as women have some sort of bicuriosity, that they enjoy the cybersexual contact with men who think they're women. I'm not totally convinced that's the case, but I don't really have an idea what they're motivation might be.

I'm semi-fascinated, though. Hopefully a catfisher will find this thread and enlighten us.

Come out come out wherever you are! We won't bite/judge.

 

[dolf]

LOL

Back in the early early days of Lit when I was much more naive, this guy Flagg was outed as playing a female alt named Rachel Picabia. I was absolutely stunned. Why would anyone do that? I wondered. It seemed like such a bizarre thing to do.

Over the years I've known many people who are a different gender on the Internet than they are IRL. Most of those are writers who use an opposite gender penname because it fits their subject matter or for other authorly reasons. But there have also been many whose reasons I can only guess. Some people say that men catfishing as women have some sort of bicuriosity, that they enjoy the cybersexual contact with men who think they're women. I'm not totally convinced that's the case, but I don't really have an idea what they're motivation might be.

I'm semi-fascinated, though. Hopefully a catfisher will find this thread and enlighten us.

Come out come out wherever you are! We won't bite/judge.

see, I've never had an issue with people presenting a false face online. it's an escape some people desperately need. like flirty using camgirl pics as her own.

it's when they start trying to suck others into it emotionally that I draw the line.

 

[Ishmael]

LOL

Back in the early early days of Lit when I was much more naive, this guy Flagg was outed as playing a female alt named Rachel Picabia. I was absolutely stunned. Why would anyone do that? I wondered. It seemed like such a bizarre thing to do.

Over the years I've known many people who are a different gender on the Internet than they are IRL. Most of those are writers who use an opposite gender penname because it fits their subject matter or for other authorly reasons. But there have also been many whose reasons I can only guess. Some people say that men catfishing as women have some sort of bicuriosity, that they enjoy the cybersexual contact with men who think they're women. I'm not totally convinced that's the case, but I don't really have an idea what they're motivation might be.

I'm semi-fascinated, though. Hopefully a catfisher will find this thread and enlighten us.

Come out come out wherever you are! We won't bite/judge.

I'm a lot more cynical about that sweetie. I automatically assume it's a form of data mining and for mostly nefarious purposes.

Ishmael

 

[miles]

I've been dating a lovely woman online for the last nine weeks. We text, sext, and IM all the time. It can get OMG Hot. Her job and time zone doesn't allow us to talk on the phone yet. I've offered to fly out and meet her, but she says she's too busy right now. And the pics she sends are jaw dropping. She's supermodel hot, I swear. I'm thinking about proposing via snapchat on our two and half month anniversary. So, no. Never been.

She's too busy to see you but you're going to propose? Have you ever seen her on live video?