
Asking Invasive Questions
Back in the ’90s when Bulletin Board Systems were as popular as Facebook, people made internet friends quickly. This internet user shared their experience making friends with a guy from North Carolina. He was friends with all of her girl friends from the dorm, which is obviously a red flag. A couple of months after the two were exchanging texts, the guy mentioned he was coming to her state for a wedding. How perfect, they’d finally get to meet in person! In an ideal world, this would seem like a good omen. But in this case, it was the complete opposite.

“Day arrives, dude shows up. I should mention that I and all my college friends were 18 or 19, this guy was 24. Or so he said. Guy looked like, and I’m not exaggerating, a cancer patient. Pale, gaunt features, long greasy pale blond hair except where he was bald on top, and just generally looked like he was about to die or he was dressed as a ghoul for Halloween.” That doesn’t sound like a guy you’d want to keep in touch with online.

She said, “he insisted on hugging all of us. When we all started hanging out, things just got worse. He was asking really invasive questions of all of us, making weird comments to whatever was said, just all around creepy and distressing. I was sitting on the floor with another friend and actively rocking back and forth from discomfort.” To get out of the discomfort, she said she hurt her back and preferred to sleep on the floor. He insisted on sharing the bed, but she said no, and he eventually left (via Ranker).