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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Perhaps inverting all elements of this...

So, I finally made a fetlife account. I'm roughly 35, M.

Looking through people in my area.

See a fairly wide range of people, but notice that... a fair number of accounts are seemingly obviously lying about their age. In either direction, sometimes.

Follow a few accounts.

Surprisingly, one follows me back within like an hour or two ... long story short, this woman has a fantastic body, but claims she's 55. Isn't showing her face on her profile, totally makes sense as a privacy measure, also leads me to think its more likely she's listing a fake age, as another privacy measure.

I say hello type words, including basically 'theres no way you're 55 right? you look to be 15 years younger.'

Fucking nope, nope I am wrong, she actually is 55, and is just in incredible shape.

So I guess now I am entirely unintentionally into MILFs. Still think she looks great!

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Did you also notice how many people are from Antarctica and 99yrs old? So far as the "no face pic" I would bet she has a lot of hidden - for friends only - pics that will have her face.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

For whatever reason, at least in my area, no, people don't seem to do that. I haven't seen a one that used that kind of anonymization.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

It was fairly common in my area, and was a running joke. Just search Antarctica you will see a lot of people there, the people I knew were forthcoming in person it was just to stop random people messaging them

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 30 minutes ago

Yeah, I've seen a fair number of people do that or similar on Steam accounts, but... yeah at least so far on fetlife, haven't seen that.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Why would a 40 year old lie about being 55? What a strange accusation hahah

I’d believe people are lying about being older if they’re really young on dating apps.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I mistyped, I meant to write 25 years younger.

But why would somebody lie from roughly 30 to present as 55?

Well really, the pattern that I thought I'd noticed was that people would just bullshit their age by a round number, 5, 10, 20, etc years, in any direction.

An obfuscation/privacy tactic more so than like, a catfishing tactic.

The other thing at play here is that ... I was genuinely baffled, in disbelief.

I literally have never seen a 55 yo woman in as good of shape as she is, she's in better shape than most women I've known who actually are in the age bracket I thought she was in.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why would a 40 year old lie about being 55?

So, on Tinder at least, there's something I read about people under 40 being sorted and matched differently than people over 40. The end result being folks in higher tiers of service getting access to younger matches. But because it's a semi-known exploit, you end up with people lying about their age to manipulate the match set.

You also get a weird phenomenon such that you see the same list of people showing up over and over again on your feed, until you cross the dateline and suddenly they all vanish.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I've heard of that. Usually it's a person in their 20s that wants access to older people though, not 40 year olds trying to trick 55 year olds.