My experience with this site was a fascinating manipulative & educational lesson, like a life recap at chapter "How NOT to be emotionally manipulated/How to identify the illusions of emotional marketing", definitely didn't expect it. I went on this "playground" being not-enough educated Settings wise after joining another similar profile site. I took a look while being natural born curios and comm pro, it was something completely new for me, I took it interesting professionally speaking. I spent time and some amount of money to advance in understanding of how this kind of platform/business worked. Yes, I know, I could have spent those resources better, but, somehow, there is no regret because it is, probably, the one and only experience within this kind of apps. Nice photos on a profile (gorgeous, in fact!), some communication developed "fast and curious". The strategies used in my case: 1. Victimization (life story with family with medical problems, he was a "doctor"), being left by wife in front of life difficulties, him having medical issues (sleeping disorder - explaining the ongoing online presence; stroke - explaining some confusion and expression troubles etc); 2. "love bombing"; 3. Flattering; 4. Permanent hooking (key-words: talk, conversation, discussion); 5. Emails innuendo (just to tell commonalities and relational - philosophical cliches); 5. Not disclosing as real person (always hidden under an ocean of big empty words selling future promises and relationship illusions); 6. Inability to evaluate and respond in real time at some more complex texts: 7. Lack of knowledge regarding English grammar (dots missing, phrases unfinished, confusing a lot "he/him" with "she/her"; 8. Lack of conversational articulation when took out from the "romantic" pattern; 9. Incapacity to express something more than romantic bla bla bla (ideas, thoughts from actuality etc); 10. Spontaneous negative reaction when asked if he is a real person (of questioning the motivation form bringing it into discussion, he got instantly mad and turned the question back to me without answering (like childish). Plus other many red flags that seriously make me to think of writing a scientific paper about it.

The big picture: 1. The profile was fake, of a nice model that sold the image for the site plus some thematic videos for some key-points in case you wonder if it is fake; 2. The chat person was an operational person within the app (or maybe more): emotionally immature and very limited as self-expression: 3. The true scope is to make them, somehow, to open up and spend money on bull$#*! conversations and discussions about nothing; 4. Still, there are some normal people there, I've talked to one, to compare, and it was very clear to me that is real (he got jokes with definite cultural references only a person could get): 5. I deleted my account today (in fact, requested previously, today, they accepted): 6. Dating app - lesson learnt: our vulnerabilities are, also, our super - powers, if you got the lesson, although pretty expensive. Good luck, be aware of, take care! M.