not that i should be online dating at my age, but my friends do it and i wonder why this happens. often times, someone will make a post (though i dont advise it) that says something like “16m gay looking for a bf” and then someone will reply with “17m dm me” and then he dms him and the 17 year old guy never talks to him again. aside from not being his type or the account being banned, what are some other reasons?

like if ur up for a relationship then dont ghost the guy!!

the few times i online dated were unsuccessful, one was horny, one was a catfish, and one blocked me after we started getting along.

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    I don’t know but my first assumption would be that thia ia just a symptom of the zoomer ghosting epidemic. Even in a professional context, zoomers a year younger than me have always displayed this incredible inability to respond to important text messages. (Can’t stop grumbling about this to anyone I know LOL)

    If you want a really wild explanation consider that, if you’re really not supposed to be there, the police are catfishing for adults who want to date 17 year olds. They see you, check if you’re real, and have no purpoe to caffish you,

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      The new generation can very much be a “me” generation, which in some ways is good because they have shed the protocol that used to hold a person to rigid norms of society, but it also creates a narcasitic aloofness also where they really don’t care for others or what my be appropriate etiquette when dealing with other humans