Being deceived over facebook as the deceiver professed their romantic feelings to his/her victim, but isn't who they say they are.
Having a fake facebook profile, images and avatar in order to lure people to have romantic feelings. They are then catfished when the victim realises the person they have falled for via facebook is not who they APPEAR to be
by dottykai May 28, 2011
Get the catfished mug.The term popularized, during early summer 2020, when significant breakups occurred after undesirable lower facial features were no longer tolerable. The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic is to blame, where individuals seeking relationships, may have had to rely solely on personality and upper facial features, since masks were concealing the nose and mouth areas.
Jodi was “maskfished into a relationship, since she could not see the horrendous teeth and beak to match, concealed under his mask.
by CVG669 April 19, 2020
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To be deceived or lead on by someone on any social network, or chat session who's claiming to be someone or something they're not and tries anything to make you believe them with words that might interest you. While they're just sitting behind whatever devices they're using and their true identity is being concealed while giving you false information about themselves.
A typical catfisher would:
*Use False info or identification
*tells or sends you anything that interests you (very romantic or sexual
*will ask for money or talk you into joining any website you got to pay for.
*will constantly go through great lengths to ignore or make up an excuse to avoid any telephone conversation or video chatting.
How to avoid it:
*ask as many questions possible and see how they react.
*video chat or have a telephone conversation with them a few times.
*check their pictures or info out (Google the images they use)
A typical catfisher would:
*Use False info or identification
*tells or sends you anything that interests you (very romantic or sexual
*will ask for money or talk you into joining any website you got to pay for.
*will constantly go through great lengths to ignore or make up an excuse to avoid any telephone conversation or video chatting.
How to avoid it:
*ask as many questions possible and see how they react.
*video chat or have a telephone conversation with them a few times.
*check their pictures or info out (Google the images they use)
by val_venis February 26, 2015
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Get the Manished mug.having a relationship of any sort with someone on social media that isn't who they say they are, by using someone else pictures or living a totally different lifestyle than what they told you.
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by trill_out May 19, 2014
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Get the hocklat marfishe mug.Bill got fatfished when the model he thought he was talking to on Facebook turned out to be a fat person with a fake profile.
by Branta August 25, 2013
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