In the world of very casual online dating, relationships may be fleeting, but the interactions with those failed dates don’t always have a clear ending. The people you meet often find a way to linger in your life much longer than you’d like. Any online-dating veteran will have at least a few of the following characters hanging around:   

The one you text with who gives you advice about your OkCupid profile

The one you are friends with on Facebook who keeps asking you to Like their new pages and inviting you to events you would never attend

The one you met by Tindering within a one-mile radius who lives in your neighborhood and whom you occasionally run into while waiting for Muni and have awkward conversations with

The sexting buddy

The backup sexting buddy

The one whom you mostly despise but who has attractive friends you want to sleep with, so you keep hanging out with them

The one who keeps showing up in your Visitors list

The one you only went on two dates with who still sends you hate messages

The one who left you only with herpes as a reminder of them

The one who moved to the East Coast but whom you send love-letter-like emails to once every three to four months

The one who sends you pics of their naughty bits but whom you haven’t blocked on your phone for some reason

The one who comes to all your house parties and drinks all your beer

The one who lives in the Mission and is a convenient booty call for those moments when you’re in between bar hopping and Lyfting home

The one who posts pointless and annoyingly narcissistic Tinder moments every day

The one who randomly pops into your head during the majority of times when you masturbate

The one who revamped their dating profile and whom you are now a 98% match with but whom you were completely incompatible with in real life

The one you decided to stop dating purely because they moved to the East Bay

The one you actually got into a long-term relationship with. JUST KIDDING!