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I finished setting up my profile, used a photograph of my friend for the profile pic with her permission, and said I was interested in Long term dating/short term dating and was good to really go. I believed I'd check on it in about 24 hours. But before I might even shut the tab another message was received. It was another guy who seemed nice asking how I was doing and I messaged him back remaining as neutral and as uninterested as possible without being mean. I was going to leave again, but I was kind of curious now, so I waited another minute, and sure enough, a third message popped up (also I believe this is really a great point to say that my buddy would be the first to say she's a pretty average looking girl). I messaged him back, but before I could send, I'd gotten a reply from the first guy, so I had to do that, then a answer from the next man. So fine, folks are interested in going out with me. Then I got another message that started with a line that while not wholly vulgar, kind of came off a little strange. I dismissed it and went back to send the message to man three now. Before I could send it, I got a followup message from Mr.4 which was needlessly sexual in nature. I continued to dismiss him and concluded. Then I started to have some small talk with some guys (recall this is like minute 20 of having the profile up) and all of the dialogues kind of get weird. One of many guys becomes super aggressive saying he's competitive and he will treat me right, the other is asking for my phone number telling me he's lying in bed and the conversation (without me steering it) is turning increasingly sexual in nature though I tell him I'm not comfortable with it. Afterward I got the NoStringsAtttached messages, with multiple guys sending me messages asking me to see them cam, or meeting up with them within the hour, or discuss with them on the phone or cyber. I would say no and they usually didn't take it too well.
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