Now What Do You Think?
In today's age, where every other week brings us another episode of When Predators Attack on Dateline, random people on the Internet can be a little sketchy, right?
I chose to apply the same wisdom to Mr. Anonymous. As you know, Mr. Anon and I established contact, and entered into an IM relationship. However, while I learned what his favorite brand of ties was (Hermes) I was not able to obtain the critical information: where we met and through whom. I pressed and pressed, and was told that a friend of a friend of a friend sent my blog to him. Hmmm.
Then I finally got a picture or two, and to Mr. Anon's own admission, he looks about 18. Honestly, he might be 18.
Given that I have an almost perfect memory of everyone I have ever met in my life, I found it strange that there was no spark of memory from meeting him. The only bell his picture rang was a school bell. I asked Mr. Anon where he met, and he has yet to provide that information. Thus, I have chosen to terminate contact until proof that I actually met him exists.
Do you agree?
I chose to apply the same wisdom to Mr. Anonymous. As you know, Mr. Anon and I established contact, and entered into an IM relationship. However, while I learned what his favorite brand of ties was (Hermes) I was not able to obtain the critical information: where we met and through whom. I pressed and pressed, and was told that a friend of a friend of a friend sent my blog to him. Hmmm.
Then I finally got a picture or two, and to Mr. Anon's own admission, he looks about 18. Honestly, he might be 18.
Given that I have an almost perfect memory of everyone I have ever met in my life, I found it strange that there was no spark of memory from meeting him. The only bell his picture rang was a school bell. I asked Mr. Anon where he met, and he has yet to provide that information. Thus, I have chosen to terminate contact until proof that I actually met him exists.
Do you agree?
posted by Does Debbie @ 4:26 PM
6 Comments:
At 5:47 PM,
Anonymous said…
Yes. All sounds quite sketchy.
I mean, we met in a similar way, no? And it didn't go like that...
At 5:49 PM,
Anonymous said…
agree with you and the devil...
At 6:55 PM,
Tracy said…
Totally sketchy... a friend of a friend of a friend gave him your blog, but then how and when did that put you and Mr. Anon in the same room, and close enough to have actually met and long enough for him to acquire the crush that has lead to all of this. Not to say that all of the above didn't happen, but why won't he divulge the details?
At 10:53 AM,
Chris said…
Of course I don't think the war in Iraq was a mistake, you tree-hugging Liberal hippie. Er wait, where am I again?
Maybe by "met you at a party" he actually means "watched you across a dimly-lit bar all night and then followed you home". And when he says "friend of a friend" he really means "randomly picked your name out of the phone book".
I'm not one to judge. I've exhibited stalker-like behavior in the past, but there's nothing malicious or psychotic about it, it's just an intense attraction that we don't know how to express.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have killed the girl's cat, I don't know why I thought that would make her love me.
But if he's not pressing you for an in-person meeting or scantily-clad pictures, then I'd say he's on the straight and narrow.
On the other hand, at this point what's the harm in filling in the blanks?
At 11:20 AM,
Anonymous said…
I want to know what Mr. Anonomyous thinks! he should pos his thoughts here for us all. or you, debbie, should tell us what he said in reaction to this post.
At 11:23 AM,
Anonymous said…
as a fellow woman... I think that honerable men don't WANT to make you uncomfortable.. they want to make you Comfortable! He has done nothing but be sketchy, and that should create red flags. He likes the game, he likes that you are left vunerable... otherwise he wouldn't make you feel this way.
Keep in mind, ANYONE can read your blog. I am a complete stranger to you, and found your blog just through the internet... Anyone can find you and in fact find out WAY too much info about you...
I had a blog which my fiance asked me to take down because it had too much personal information about us. I didn't think it did, but after looking and reading through it again, I realized that if I wanted to post personal information, I had to either not make the blog public (which you can do through blogger and have only your friends and family read), or create an alternate identity for myself online.
I love blogs, I love to read them, I love to write them... but don't ever forget that there are "sketchy" people out there trolling blogs... and they are predators.
Who knows if this guy is a predator, or really just a confused kid who feels better about himself cause he can manipulate people online... but if he is a predator... he can find out where you live, where you work, where you went to high school, where your parents live, and a whole lot of info, just based on piecing together your personal information you have already placed on this blog. You have included your full name and dates you went to camp, and that is all a predator needs.
Be wary of strangers online just as you would walking down the street in NY. I can give you my info... I don't want you to not know who I am. I don't really want to post it on your blog, but if you want info, let me know.
~jill
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