Byron
Very Balanced! Half Real, Half Scam.
I loved that everyone was represented in a thumbnail with several different screenshots, to get better idea of their appearance . Personally I dislike a face ‘matched’ in front of me to swipe. I can make my own choices based on profile but some apps worked that way. I’m in my early 50s and keep myself together. I’m told I’m very handsome. I rarely contacted people on A4A because when I made a friendly introduction it put people at a loss for words (??) and that turned me off. I wasn’t real specific about a ‘match’ except asking- whomever-they take pride in appearance even at the platonic friend level. That and be less than 50 miles away. So I was baffled by guys texting who lived thousands of miles away ( they claimed) and weird statistics attached to photos , like 6-2 and weighing 110 lbs when it was evident they could not be. Only now I realize they were bots , not able to handle anything more than someone’s pic and clueless about the national standards for what would look like death IF you really weighed that. The site progressed to ‘worse’, as if the app’s ‘society’ was crumbling the more time I spent on it. I was texted by one hustler after another…often living hundreds, thousands of miles away. One was from - I deduced- India although he never admitted and he, and others from everywhere including America, would quickly shift the conversation like we were semi- committed in a relationship. ( That one pissed me off so much I played along until he was exhausted ).If you were desperate enough, they hoped you’d hear their hard luck story leading to $, but both the scammer and myself became disillusioned before we met and I was never seen again . Just before I quit the app the scene was progressing into the Wild West, with guys with drugs, massages ( that I think was leading up to me offering to fly them in for!)and more , although they always wanted to move to chat app to speak confidentially. It stopped being amusing, especially when no one local was texting. Some people were suspended by the site before a conversation was done! In 6 weeks I was so weary of the BS that sometimes required wasting time over guys that mysteriously disappeared, to pop up 2 weeks later to finish the conversation. It’s too bad because I loved the format but that ‘house’ was built of paper. Pathetic.