i have a lot of friends that go on dating apps. i hear a couple good things about it, but mostly bad things. i always wondered how you could trust a photo and a profile of someone who is basically a stranger? do they do background checks? and how do you know if that person is psycho or not? those were always the topics of my conversation when my friends and i talk about dating apps…
anyway, last week, this local man who was on the dating app Bumble, met a girl, took her back to his apartment, got a knife, cut up her genital area, she was found naked in the elevator bleeding all over, he was found by the police sleeping on his bed in her pool of blood, he got arrested, went to jail, and got released on bail 2 days later. so yes, this man is right now on the streets in Hawaii, probably still on a dating app looking for his next victim.
so the next time i get together with my friends and talk about dating apps and social media, this will be a topic for sure. i’m not the type of person to trust anyone. i meet people and have a good sense of figuring out what kind of person they are. but if you were to ask me to figure someone out based on a photo and profile, i’d be lying if i told you i could. that’s impossible. and that’s the reason i tell my friends, especially women friends, to stay away from dating apps. all it takes is one bad judgement call for bad things to happen. and in the world we live in now, bad things happen way to often…
