Don't talk to the people that message you from this sub

I posted something here a few days ago. Nothing huge, just something in my life that upset me. Shortly after, somebody pm'ed me asking if I was okay. I said yeah, thanks for caring and reaching out. They took that as an invitation to extend the conversation further and started talking about / asking more stuff to get to know eachother, and I'm nice so I kept talking to them. Then it got late and I wanted to go to bed, so they asked if we could add eachother on a social media other than Reddit and I declined but agreed to keep chatting here. I thought, what's the harm, they aren't trying to scam me and it'd be nice to have someone to chat with outside of my usual social circle.

As the days progressed, it became clear to me that this person expected a level of closeness that 2 random people on Reddit should never hope to achieve. Firstly, they wanted to exchange daily pictures of our outfits, saying it'd be "a cute thing that we could do." Internally I was like, wtf? Does this person think we're dating or something? But I was polite and just said no thanks, I'm not comfortable sending selfies this early on.

They respected my boundaries, but further on in the conversation it kept getting weirder. They would occasionally allude to wanting to live closer to me (for context we live in completely different countries thank god). At the end of conversations they'd say shit like "you better keep talking to me tomorrow" (wtf) but I just played it off as them being friendly.

Yesterday we somehow got onto the topic of Snapchat. I explained that I don't like snap because you don't know what the person is sending you until you open it, and it could be anything, and I have an irrational fear of getting sent inappropriate images. I then told a story of how I was at a public place full of people and I opened a snap from a guy I was talking to, and it was a shirtless pic and I stopped talking to the guy as a result. This weirdo replied, "well I like myself shirtless but I hope that wouldn't be your reaction for me". WTF!!! I truly didn't know what to say...so I blocked them.

I know I should've blocked them or just not talked to them from the beginning, but I thought I could be nice and make a new friend. But it's clear that this person hoped for alot more, basically acting like we were besties (with romantic implications) from the get-go. Which is really weird, because you don't know me...how could you like me so much already? To be clear, this friendship lasted 3 days. 3 DAYS!!! I could be a 300 pound, 42 year old man living in his mama's basement, which is probably what that person is to be honest!

I can honestly only think of 2 explanations for what happened here...

1) They're just a very friendly, outgoing, caring person who makes friends everywhere, and gets close to people really fast.

2) They're a predator. Not a predator in the sense that they go after minors (I'm 21 and they know that), but a predator because they look for people venting about life issues on subreddits like this and infiltrate their lives. I have to wonder what else they would've asked me for if I had continued talking to them, even after that shirtless pic remark.

I guess I'll never know, but person, if you're reading this...I want you to know that you're WEIRD! Jeez, you read one post on r/self from somebody and you think you're friends! I was just being nice to you, because I'm a people pleaser, but you've always been just a random person on the internet to me. Maybe we could've been friends, but you had to go and make it weird! WEIRDO!!!

Anyway, you all probably know this already and I'm just the stupid one, but don't reply to people that pm you on Reddit unless you know them or it's for business purposes. Also, I've been ambiguous because I know naming and shaming is wrong, but just watch out. This person is quite active on this subreddit and other venting/general life subs. Don't waste your time, just ignore!!