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Craigslist Personals has Died Officially

Authored by: David F. (Anonymous User) on Monday, April 30 2018 @ 02:45 pm

CL personals here in the US was "killed" or died officially about a month ago now, but I think that was really the best thing for it. It had gone practically totally to hell over the past few years.

There was a time, perhaps 7- almost 10 yrs ago or so, when it was feasible to actually meet someone to date off of CL. I know it was possible back then because it worked for me a couple of times (bearing in mind of course that I'd had to post probably 100 times before even 1 real meet-up / match-up went semi-successfully).

But the past 4-5 years roughly speaking, if you were Not a gay or bi (or 'curious' -- or perhaps straight but absolutely desperate) male posting in one of the m4m or t4m sections, or maybe a woman posting in the w4w (I don't know what kind of luck or results bi or gay women on there ever had), it was about 99.9% pointless to even post on CL.

If you posted on the m4w "casual encounters" section, a spam storm soon attacked whatever email you had just used to post there (all of which were 2 liner msg's, obviously written by foreigners, trying to get you to give them your direct email address or cell #). If you posted on the m4w real "dating" section you either heard nothing back from anyone, or you occasionally got a msg from someone asking if you were "generous$" or, again, you got something that was easily identifiable as a spam response.

The entire CL personals were by now basically hopelessly infested with working girls and spammers/scam posts. The best thing for it was the (albeit an unintentional 'side effect') passage of the "FOSTA" bill which finally led to it being put out of its misery. Better off with a free-to-post legit dating website anyday.

The CL personals in more recent years ranged from futile to potentially dangerous (again, maybe unless you were gay/bi, and/or unless you were looking to 'pay to play' -- but even then, how safe was it really to go and meet a total stranger at their home or at a motel or elsewhere, for a random sexual encounter??....). I'd imagine also that not all -- probably not half -- of the many m4m random hookups that took place daily from off of there were really "safe sex", and thus STD spread was possibly realistically a problem from there too, to a certain extent. The elimination of the CL m4m and t4m (and the other personals) sections may in some way help to cut down on that a tiny bit as well, given that it likely makes it that much harder now for random men to meet and have anonymous encounters without actually having to go somewhere out of the house, converse, etc. All in all, it was for the overall benefit of society to get rid of the CL personals; that was not truly what CL was created for in any case, I'm fairly certain -- to become a giant cyber bathhouse or gay sex club.

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