First, the scary and exciting: You will be sent nude photos even if you are casually talking about the weather. You will get asked to do threesomes. You will find lots of men who are still married and going through a tumultuous divorce. Men will ask you if you are into ass play which seems to be trending and everyone has gotten rid of their pubic hair.
Keep yours if you want, though; I happen to like my landing strip. But keep these things in mind. Yes, of course there is more. The red flags: It may seem like there are a lot of options when you first start scrolling. But your matches quickly get whittled down. One person lives too far away. One guy may give one-word answers and never ask you any questions. One may ask you for a nude picture after exchanging two messages.
The guy you thought looked like the man of your dreams is actually a scammer who ends up asking you to join him in another third-party app. This is a no good, very big red flag. Scammers, by the way, look like models from Paris. They are very well-dressed, all their pictures are perfect, and their English is broken; their messages make no sense or mimic yours a little too closely.
You will get ghosted. Get over it. Especially if you join a site like Tinder or Bumble, which are the two of the most used dating apps and tend to be the easiest to use, and where a lot of people start post-divorce because you can have pretty good luck without paying a monthly membership. Ghosting happens to everyone, and for so many reasons.
I had one man ghost me only to come back after a month with a message telling me the cold snap threw him off. All you can do is shake it off and try again. There are lots of requests for sexting and pictures. People are very comfortable hiding behind their phones and asking for pictures of you.
