Blog Predators

October 24, 2005 by NML

People always complain about how people exploit online dating by misrepresenting themselves in order to lure in unsuspecting people, but what about blogs?
It’s great when two people meet as a result of blogging and fall in love. Two of my friends Dating Dummy and Paranoid Promqueen have found love this way (separately, not together), but this has been accidental.
What about the people who set up a blog with the specific purpose of meeting people for dates or sex? What about when these people don’t have any good intentions and misrepresent themselves to gain a sympathy vote?

Well I’m sending out a word of caution on the blog streets. If you are blogging and tugging at peoples heart strings by telling them how downtrodden you are, when all you’re hoping for is someone to fall for it and knock boots with you, I may be writing about you very soon!

So far it’s only guys that I know of that are doing this and it really galls me that women are so easily taken in by it. Are we so frickin desperate to believe, that we actually think that if it’s written down it must be true?
I’m even more frightened for the women that know that the guy is like this and have even been tipped off by other burnt women, but persist anyway. Ladies, we need to shake off this ‘I can change him’ attitude that we have in the ‘real world’ and avoid dragging it into the virtual world.

If the guy has a whole load of women fawning at him, despite the fact that he’s screaming with his words, and I literally mean spelling it out, that he’s a prick, don’t pursue him. He is relying on the fact that there are women out there that will be thick enough to fall for his ‘Look at me. I am a prick. I cannot help it. Poor me.’ act.

The other thing to take note of, is whether there are other women who have already fallen for his ways and been burnt by them. Listen to her because she may save you from being trodden on.

I know a couple of blogs that are doing this, but I’m curious: Has this happened to you? Or do you know of a ‘Blog Predator’? Let me know in the comments box, or you can email through the contact page.