LPT: Reverse Image search your dating app matches before making any meetup plans.

Yeah, that's the only thing I truly trust when it comes to people online if they are who they say they are. But SO many will make excuses or lie about not wanting to go on cam for some reason or another even if I offer to go on cam with them and only for a minute or two. They will still make up excuses.

Though I remember seeing some software a few years ago where people could alter stuff and move around on cam and it still looked somewhat real. So unfortunately even that eventually will probably not be enough. Only way at that point then is in person in a public place with lots of people around. But these days you also have people who put on LOTS of makeup etc.

And to add another layer of messed up is people who have lots of plastic surgery and get married and have kids and then their kids look nothing like them. Which happened over in Asia so many years back and the husband tried to take legal action or something. Don't remember what ended up happening but it is kinda messed up to lie to someone and hide what you really looked like then have kids who then look ugly cause they pass on their looks to their kids sometimes.

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