How do you feel when...

United States
July 16, 2007 11:02am CST
...people hit on you online? I often get messages from men hitting on me and although it's flattering, sometimes I get creeped out by it! Especially if he is a lot older than me (I'm 21). I get the most messages from guys who are over 40, hardly ever are they my own age. Also, when I tell them I have a boyfriend a lot of them will just ignore that and keep going. It's not like I would ever plan to meet them so I wonder why they do it? Are they just trying to be nice? Does this happen to you? How does it make you feel?
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@Jennifer21 (2476)
• United States
16 Jul 07
It is flattering when men hit on me, but sometimes, yes, it can really freak me out, especially when they say they want to meet me, although I am married, and they still don't care. It is as if they think I will forget about my husband and want to meet them just because they like my pic, or they call me their angel, ect. I have chatted with men just to be nice, but when they start talking of coming to meet me, or they thought about me last night, I get freaked out and don't talk to them anymore. It can be quite scary at times, especially when these men won't stop.
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• United States
16 Jul 07
Yeah. Like I said above, there is a difference between being playful and being creepy. As long as they don't take things seriously it's fine, but once they start to think there is an actual "relationship" forming or that something could happen, it's too far.
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@ddlaurie (132)
• Canada
16 Jul 07
Some people are being nice but a lot of them I think are tring to find someone to fill the void in there lives. If you feel creeped out usually that is means you sense trouble do not respond to them. Listen to your inner self.
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• United States
16 Jul 07
Good point. I think there is a difference between those who are playful and flirty, which is fine, and those who are actually just plain creepy. Thanks for the response.
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16 Jul 07
Unfortunately there are a lot of guys out there with nothing better to do than bug the ladies online. I just ignore them these days although when they ask me for a photograph (and they are cheeky enough to do so) I send them a picture of my brother. It was taken a couple of years ago, he has a shaved head and a goatee beard, a sleeveless shirt and an expression on his face that says *don't mess with me* they usually stop pretty quick after that
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• Canada
16 Jul 07
LoL ... Good thinking hun, I should get a pic of my hubby looking mean and show them that as my pic hehehe! I bet they'd stop after that! Only when I get harassed though, usually when I tell them I'm married they back off, but their are some cheeky ones that like to push it!
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@Anniedup (3651)
• Richards Bay, South Africa
18 Jul 07
Maybe change your Avatar, replace it with some horror pic, or a flower! :)
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@coolseeds (3919)
• United States
13 Aug 07
LMAO. You are so vain. I be you think that my song is about you. =P
• United States
18 Jul 07
I like looking at myself too much.
• United States
16 Jul 07
hon enjoy it while it last T MY AGE IT NEVER EVER HAPPENS TO ME lol
@coolseeds (3919)
• United States
1 Aug 07
lol
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• New Zealand
22 Jul 07
LMAO... You dont get the young lads, of around 20yrs, who want to teach you a thing or two? It always amuses me no end!.....I,ve forgotten more than they would have to teach...lol How desperate are they, that they are pleading to see my saggy baggy bits on cam? Oh...I forgot...at that age , they are such a bag of walking hormones, that a knothole in the floor would be exciting...LMAO
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• New Zealand
23 Jul 07
There is always going to be a group of men, who think that any woman who leaves her house unaccompanied, is "asking for it"! It is no different on the internet.....despite the fact that everyone from small children to grannies, now use the net....men of this mindset, are convinced that women who are online, are desperate s.l.u.ts, just waiting to be hit on by men.....& they are willing & ready to oblige!LOL It is of no consequence whether you have a boyfriend/husband....in their mind, if you are on the net, you are looking to cheat.... Of course there maybe "nice" men, just wanting to chat....but I,m afraid I view strangers approaching me in this way, with a very jaudiced eye, as I would if it happened in the street.... When some man messages me, saying they are interested in chatting about my country, I always think "why didnt they approach a man from my country?....he could give them the same information"Of course, if the man contacting me, is from a online site I belong to, that is quite different....we have some point of interest, & are aquaintances already...but total strangers, who are just trolling for women online ..NO!
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@gberlin (3836)
17 Jul 07
Well, I am 51, a guy and I am married. I have a son 22 and a daughter 27. Even if I wasn't married I prefer someone closer to my own age because we would have more in common.
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
17 Jul 07
I used to get this when I would go into a chat room but haven't had any problems on here. Maybe because I am married and talk about my husband all the time. I don't know. When it would happen to me I just ignored them. I didn't let it bother me. Maybe they are just being friendly and it is coming across as flirting. I would not worry about it.
@Katlady2 (9904)
• United States
21 Jul 07
I used to go into a couple of different chat rooms. The moment I would log in, I would be attacked by all of these private messages. Some of them weren't so bad...like you said, a little flattering. But others were a little (ok a LOT) on the bluntly suggestive side, and I kept trying to ignore those. Finally I gave up and got out of there as fast as I could. I stopped going in there a long time ago. It was either quit, or come up with a name that didn't sound feminine. LOL
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
18 Jul 07
Yeah..alot. Sometimes by girls too. Most of them creep me out though..and yeah, they tend to be either older or younger than me O_O' If they weren't so blunt, and actually cared to have a real conversation with some substance to it I wouldn't get so annoyed at them. And then they curse me out, because I won't even consider a relationship with them -- but they're the ones being jerks. None of the ones with me are ver being nice, it's usua;;y because they're vain people, who're only ooking for something to make THEM feel good. Which is why they get angry when I refuse to be used like that. And no..they don't seem very bright, most of them..it seems, 'cause most of them DO expect you to actually meet them. But how stupid do they think we are? How many time havethey heard about the girls who met the wrong person off the internet? I don't have patience for most of them anymore, as soon as it starts I block them.
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@yanjiaren (9031)
21 Jul 07
Heheh I have had a few men likely but it has been more of an attraction on a spiritual sort of nature lol..They want to get to know me becAUSE OF MY POETRY AND VERY ROMANTIC NATURE..i TELL THEM STRAIGHT OFF THAT i AM married lol and I get the oh very nice, your man is very lucky so I take it as a compliment and the bucks kinda stops there hhaha.
@cdparazo (5765)
• Philippines
21 Jul 07
It happened to me a lot of times and I guess it would still happen again as long as I go online. One young guy even hit on me and my gosh! he is 10 years younger! Sometimes I can't help asking, what is wrong with you kid? is life really tough or are you really that unfortunate looking that you cant get a live and kicking girlfriend right beside you?...But come to think of it, i think the internet has become the venue of a lot of weirdness.
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• United States
18 Jul 07
First of all no one being nice would continue to hit on you. If some one was being nice they would take no for an answer and leave well enough alone. I do not go to chat rooms, I do not put my picture on the inter net for that reason because of perverts like that. I may be pernoid but I do not need that kind of attention.
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@wilynn (751)
• Singapore
18 Jul 07
I feel yucky and pity them. Its like they have no life and could not find other woman in real life that they have to rely on the internet to satisfy their desires. I think most of them look horrid and could not get woman in the real world so they ended up using the internet as a tool.
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@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
17 Jul 07
Age is just a little number molly, many people have their true love in much older men, men in their late 40s who love they younger ladies close to 20+ their junior! See, some older men take long to find Miss Right, they keep falling in and out of the wrong traps and yet, age unfortunately does not stand still, when they finally find their right one, they give it their whole and both parties find exceptional bliss! I want to agree, that these could be messages to flatter you, but I can in the same vein, not rule out the fact that some older man could really be very serious with you and regardless of what you think, they could be a real men who would give you what a thousand young men of your age cannot offer! Dont rule them out completely because there is a one percent chance that a real man's proposal is being left to gather dust!
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• United States
17 Jul 07
Yes, well, I am not interested in meeting anyone to date online. I would not treat an older man any different from a younger man if I were. I do not enjoy being called "Baby" and "sweetie" by strangers no matter what age. I find it tasteless for men to hit on me before they even know me. When the first message to me is something like that, I do not imagine it is coming from someone I would consider dating, regardless of age. Thanks for the comment.
@pendragon (3349)
• United States
16 Jul 07
It's disgusting.All my software is a security edition of this that or the other thing, I always use the "these users only" lists for those who may contact me by IM or email.
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@pendragon (3349)
• United States
23 Jul 07
I think you just proved the point of this topic.
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@arcidy (5005)
• United States
23 Jul 07
I would love for hot women to hit on me online lol I dont find it creepy I would find it very flattering and especially if they lived near me maybe we could set something up and go out and do something so i would love for women to hit on me online so I have no idea why your complaining lol Im sure most guys like it when women hit on them also.
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@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
16 Jul 07
I had an episode like that last week on my 360 blog. I got a notice that a guy wanted to be included on my friends. Since he was from Houston I said ok, figuring we'd chat about sports and things around here. Then he starts wanting my picture and my age, etc. I felt a little odd about it. He would not give up. I had to cut him off. So I would be careful. If they want personal info right off the bat I would be careful. I'd rather chat about different things first before giving out personal info. If you are creeped out by these guys you are probably right. Hang in there.
@Lovett (464)
• India
17 Jul 07
I m also 21, N the other day, I was going to meet my bf,,,(now this is not on the internet,,lol ,,,just tellin you my experience),ok,,, n then I was at the station, while getting out, I noticed that there is this man,,,maybe in his 40s , staring at me, n following me,,,. It started raining , so I decided to stop at a corner, n wear my windcheater. I then noticed that this man was stading in front of me n just staring at my br!@#@.I was staring hard at him, n when he had finished I rudely asked him if he would do the same to his daughtrer,,n then started calling out n tellnig people wat he had done,, he pretended as though nothin happened, n was showing himself as innocent. When he realized hat he was insulted enuf, he ran away... Wat a jerk!!!I told this to my bf later, n he got wild, n wanted to beat the shi@ out of the A@##$$#@#.So, these people have not spared the internet as well!!!
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@Lovett (464)
• India
17 Jul 07
I feel creepy when people do that.....N also avoid such people!!!
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• Philippines
17 Jul 07
others would just do things like that for fun or for some other reasons...they might be acting to be friendly at first, but later on the real person really appears...i even read in one of the papers that a girl (just like your'e case)she was being sent with msgs that was so flattering and eventually after the guy was so serious in doing his thing in trying to convince the girl that he loves her, etc. they met and by some other reason they just met for the first time but they exchanged msgs for sometime, the girl was brought to a place that was so unknown to her, then there she was seduced by the guy and after doing his thing, they guy just left her in nowhere...
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• United States
17 Jul 07
Luckily I would never meet a man from the internet like that, especially if I found him to be creepy. I would also never meet someone in a private place or a place that I am not familiar with. Thanks for the comment.