A “self-proclaimed Kimutaku” and a “man who exposes his personal information”… The real-life experience of the trendy “Twitter marriage activity” that is too dangerous.

As the matching app culture becomes more prevalent, more and more people, especially those in their 30s and 40s, are trying a new way of dating called “Twitter Marriage Activity.

The process of Twitter Marriage Activity is very simple. All you have to do is post your profile with the tag “#TwitterMarriage Activity. Since it is done on Twitter, there is no need to have a photo of yourself or pay for the service, making it easy to get started.

The advantage of Twitter dating is that you can eliminate preconceived notions based on a person’s photo, and you can go back to past tweets to learn more about the other person’s personality. For this reason, it is said to be a marriage activity that focuses on the inside. On the other hand, however, there are also pitfalls.

The “self-proclaimed confident person who looks like Takuya Kimura” and the “man who exposes his personal information.

Twitter allows users to create and delete accounts easily. If someone repeatedly engages in malicious behavior, it is possible to file a complaint with the management if it is a matching application, but it is difficult to take countermeasures in the case of Twitter marriage activity.

Haruka (pseudonym, 31), who works for an IT company in Tokyo, says she was cheated by a “self-proclaimed high-spec man.

A said on Twitter, ‘I look like Takuya Kimura. I got the impression that he was a popular guy with a lot of photos uploaded of high-class restaurants and a very packed dating schedule.

When I finally met A with high expectations, I was disappointed. He didn’t look a millimeter like Takuya Kimura, of course, and his conversation was boring and didn’t seem like a successful businessman. Maybe it’s bad to say, but he was a dull businessman who could be found anywhere, and if he were on a matching app, I would have skipped him in a second for sure.

There are many stories in the Twitter marriage activity community that when they met him, he was a totally different person on a fraudulent level; Twitter does not have a monitoring system like apps do, so even if they lie to you, you cannot report it to the management and have the service suspended. In fact, it turns out that there were several other people besides myself who were victims of A.”

Haruka says that she has met other terrible men besides A. “I met a guy who was a bit of a jerk. B, with whom she had lunch once at a face-to-face meeting, had her appearance and personal information spread without her permission.

“B saw a tweet I posted about #TwitterMarriage Activity and contacted me, and we communicated for about three days before we decided to meet. We had a light dinner that day and didn’t talk much, but I didn’t have any bad points against B. However, I later found out that B had sent DMs to several of my followers, who were not acquainted with B at all, about my appearance and the university I went to.

The content was not just light-hearted, saying ‘this is the kind of person I was,’ but was malicious in a way that lowered my reputation, saying things like ‘this is what he said in his tweets, but he didn’t look like that at all. I was surprised because his tweets and messages were normal and proper, and when I met him he didn’t seem like the kind of person who would do something like this.”

He was kind, but he was a slut.”

Because Twitter marriage activity is basically a text-only exchange, there are not a few cases of “I met him and he was the worst kind of guy. Keiko (pseudonym, 28), who works for a trading company, met C, who was a gentleman on the Internet, and was almost taken to a hotel by him.

I originally knew that there were “yarimokus” out there. Such people would not want to take the time to meet, so I tried to meet them after a few conversations. …… C, who often got involved with me from the lip, was kind and I had a good impression of him. After a few exchanges, I received a DM saying ‘I’d like to meet you’ and we agreed to meet. The restaurant he reserved for us was a well-established ryotei restaurant, so I expected him to be a high-spec person.

We had a pleasant conversation in the beginning, but then he started to talk about things that were beneath him and I thought, ‘What? I thought, “What? After we left the restaurant, he almost held my hand and said, “Do you want to go to a hotel today? I was saddened by the fact that she was so different from the person I had met on Twitter.

The fact that the site is “focused on the inside” does not mean that the number of malicious users is small. The fact that you can easily delete your account and redo it as many times as you want makes it easier for crimes and malicious acts to occur. It may not be possible to avoid it completely, but what can be done to minimize the risk?

Keiko says, based on her own experience.

It is best to proceed with caution with people who have too few followers or followers, no profile picture, or no tweets at all. Just because someone has a large number of followers does not necessarily mean they are a good person, but a freshly created account with a small number of followers will not be held accountable if they do something malicious if they delete their account. On the other hand, if you have a large number of followers and are well known on Twitter, you cannot easily delete your account, and if you do something wrong, you will lose the status you have built up on Twitter when you are exposed.

Because anyone can easily start a Twitter account, there is a good chance that married couples or dangerous people may be mixed in, so it seems that caution is required when using Twitter.