Interacting with people online is challenging, Artchic

I have friends here on pscychcentral and we all interact in a positive way with one another. I rely on them for emotional support and try and reciprocate when I can. We all have different reasons for joining psychcentral, but generally they are noble and honest reasons and as you would have found out by now, psychcentral members are very supportive of one another. There's no hidden agenda, we discuss who we are and our issues openly in a supportive community.

I think that the point I'm trying to make is that people on the internet - especially so on sites that you are looking at - will portray a certain persona that may not be them at all - they're on there "looking" - and I've heard plenty horror stories on these meeting sites about who is really lurking behind the scenes.

You need to approach those types of sites with a degree of caution. Not everyone who is on that site is there with good intent.

And if I could clarify - I'm not knocking that particular site - don't know it at all and have not had any type of affiliation with it ever. Just that those sites in general may not have the types of members that you'd like to be interacting with in the real world.