@crazycurlz you are the best !! ???

@IamNobody awww, shucks. lol the thing is...I'm drawing from personal experience

@SpikeTalon @IamNobody here's the thing. When I was 17, there were two guys, great guys/great friends, who tagged team me and just made things fun. You two...it's nice to know you two are right around the corner, putting up with my whims! Nice comment, SpikeTalon. Hugs to you both! Have a good week

Oh my replies have been good and positive as well. I am saying a lot of them came abruptly to a stop and I don't understand why (I actually got offset once and took it out on the wrong person !!!... Which I did apologize tons for it. This was an isolated event, not a trend). Thanks for your comment !!

@IamNobody yes I see your point and I guess that is true of me too.

My post is not about dating by the way. Having messages communication is about exchanging ideas or plain talking about nothing. One may get a chance to learn something new about places, culrure, language, ideas, music, books, stories....etc. Anyhow, for the record I didn't say anything about dating.

I could sustain a conversation with a bot probably longer because the last thing I would do is to use the Turing test ( Bots don't like that ). In the event the bot would try any kind of test on me then I would answer as ilogical as possible so the bot would get even more puzzled and engaged and the conversation will last until I die or his memory would overflow..... No, humans are still more complex than bots.

@IamNobody You just failed the robotic Turing test. I just cleared my stack, so I’m back to 640k. I shouldn’t need more than that.

@indirect76 oh well, the story of my life..... (that's what Turing said) ?

Ok, thanks for sharing that. None of my experiences have gone through something like that from either side. With everyone comments and feedback (haven't seen them all yet) I am starting to think that probably I just have too much time on my hands and that's all there is.

Ha ha ha... You did have time to write up your reply ?

I don't think any of my 31 conversations where scammers at all. Out of curiosity, how can you tell?

You got scammers? And yes, how could you tell?

@IamNobody and @Emme it's a scammer language they use. I moderate a dating site and see it all the time. It's broken English, very forward and quick with romance and within the first few messages ask to chat off site or looking for a good wife and you are perfect.

@Emme I’ve been online dating for about 2 years; they’re everywhere! They all have about the same story: widowed 5 years(no interest in love until they saw YOUR picture); claim to be born here, but work abroad as engineers/contractors-fewer claim armed services; if you talk to them on the phone, they have foreign accents. In writing, it’s apparent that English is not a first language. Might claim a child, in boarding school abroad. Orphans all-none claim family; all alone in the world. They want info but don’t give much back; want to escalate the relationship rapidly(& are inappropriate). Many do lovebombing. All are liars; lies that quickly contradict each other. Often their names are a clue: two first names, or a last name first. Like William John or Trenton Jack. Quickly want money, usually within a few weeks, if they last that long.
That’s been my experience. I usually ask lots of questions, fact check what I can, image search their photos. They are all so alike, it gets easy to spot them.

@CarolinaGirl60 Exactly!!! Easy to spot!

@helionoftroy
Wow, thanks for the info. Good to know!?

@helionoftroy but wait, the messages I am talking about, they are aleady private. Anyhow, I don't think I have talked with any scammers yet. If anything, the communication vanished (as someone already suggested) because I am the boring one

@CarolinaGirl60 I have not seen anything like that and everyone that have had exchange private messages with me can come forward to tell if I even tried any of those things. I am genuinely interested into understanding why human communication works (or not) in such a way when the physical profile is not part of the deal. I am very much aware that my name is bogus and my info is questionable and thought it would be easy to overcome those boundaries by just developing friendship by learning from each other. Once again (I know, one string banjio right?), this experiment is about developing communication, not about dating.

@IamNobody I understand that it’s about communication. It’s just that it’s rampant online everywhere, not just dating sites. I’ve also had scammers try on Facebook, Instagram, and even the messenger on Words With Friends.
It happens so much and is so pervasive, that I’m now much less likely to talk to people I don’t know on those forums.
I see nothing wrong with using a screen name and an avatar or other pic that’s not ones face. That’s not a problem. With scammers/catfish, it’s the blatant lies, attempts to manipulate, extortion...which always come, and they really are much alike.
I do still talk to people, and as long as the convo stays friendly, respectful, and honest, i’ll keep talking. If I’m being disrespected: block.

It's one of the possibilities

@IamNobody
Hey now, boring is NO DRAMA❣??

@irascible you rang?

@Emme yup, that's right !!! ?

@irascible good for you and thanks, there has to be people out there that like to type as much as I do. ???

@Emme ?

@IamNobody
And there it is?

@Sealybobo thanks for the suggestion. I am not a gamer though.