Pretending to be someone else
By onque10
@onque10 (110)
Philippines
July 13, 2011 7:40am CST
I got an SMS yesterday afternoon from an unregistered number. He said his name and where he is working. I asked how did he get my number and said he got it from a chain email message. I joked that I am not interesting in acquiring a car since he is working in an automobile company. He said he won't be selling a car and just wanted to make friends. He asked for my facebook account but I told him to give his account so I can check first. He did not reply.
It was 1am when I received again an SMS from another number. I asked as usual, how did he got my number and said, from a random texting (I have no idea on what this means). I told him that I am not interested textmating. He asked my gender and I told him I am a gay. He said ok and asked me to just pretend that he did not text.
I did this on purpose, but now I am thinking if this made me less of a human? I mean, if a gay learned that I did this to shoo away those kind of people, will I offend him?
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5 responses
@RamRes (1723)
• Argentina
17 Jul 11
I received a few of such messages, from someone thinking I was a friend of him I though. As most of those are just spams or cheats to steal something from you, I just ignored the messages and never responded a single one. Not only it uses my balance to correct someone else mistake, but also may I be falling into a trap of some sort perhaps. So I prefer to remain on the safe side and pretend that message never existed.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
14 Jul 11
Wow!! Texting you at 1 a.m. This is unreal, and makes you wonder anymore how people just can randomly text people and never expect to be treated rudely. But you might have done yourself a Big favor by responding like that, and hopefully you can prevent some of the weirdos from texting you as well. I know there would be a lot of Texts I have gotten from people as well as phone calls blocked on my Cell if I could.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
13 Jul 11
I don't think you are offending the gay society.
This only shows that some people are more "pretenders" than those gay who pretends/acts like a girl.
See,if that person is sincere for making friend,or looking only for a friend,then why s/he texted " He said ok and asked me to just pretend that he did not text"
That means...whoever is that person,s/he is looking for something/whatever.
I have few gay friends and they are good ones and not even pretenders,they really show who they are,what they feel and what they want.
They speaks/talks directly ,and that is what i like about them.
@me1823 (26)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
15 Jul 11
First of all I think it's weird that they even got your number. I would get worried about that but I suppose it can't harm you.
I think it's OK to joke around with people, with anyone. In this case you're dealing with an unknown person so it's normal to be reserved and take precautions in dealing with them. As for your remark about being gay, I don't think that anyone would take that as an offense, you were just protecting yourself and that's OK. Just don't do it too often.
Oh, and if these anonymous text keep happening (here I'm assuming that they're unwanted) maybe the best thing would be that you change your number.
