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What I’m about to say sounds unbelievable
General Support / by johnng823
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July 28th, 2025
...See more About TalkLife I’m scared for my safety and well-being. Nobody believes me, or when I try to talk about it, I guess it scares people away. Recently in the last month and a half maybe two months I have been working on getting an app that is like this but different. I want someone to take me seriously. I feel like nobody does. Honestly, what do I have to gain from this? I have absolutely nothing to gain and everything to lose. I’m shaken about this whole thing. I should tell you the App that is involved, but I’m afraid that this post will be taken down and I don’t want that. I’ve come here for support, I’ve come here because I’m legitimately scared for my safety and well-being, I’ve come here because I’ve used this service before and it helped. I’m not misrepresenting facts, I’m not doing anything like that. OK so now that that is over and then just start from the beginning.  I spent a lot of time on the app in question so I understand how it works, plus I’m also just a nerd. I emailed the CEO of this company every day for a month. I never got a response back, not once. I’ve started noticing things. I had some pictures on my phone of someone who was involved in this whole thing and it was a screenshot of a man who was harassing individuals on this app. Those two pictures I had disappeared. I’ve also been working on this with someone I’m very close to And she had a whole folder of evidence that has gone missing. It’s all gone. I do have some screenshots on my phone still but the important ones I sent to a friend. I didn’t understand where my pictures went, and I just found out today about her folder. Here’s what you need to honestly know about this app. It’s not a mental health app. It’s not like 7 cups whether they’re helpful and they care about people. They say it is but it’s not. I know this because of what I’m going to tell you now. Someone got into my computer at my home here. What happened is known as a man in the middle attack and that basically means that between me and their website that I wanted to go to was a person or a computer making it so I couldn’t do it and what’s really important about that is this website was for state agency where you would go to file complaints like against Internet providers and cell phone companies, things like that. When I went to the website, it was blocked. I couldn’t get it, not securely. My computer gave me that warning. There’s no reason for this at all. I got the same warning from 3 different sites something was off. After doing some digging, I found some really disturbing stuff that puts the app in the middle of this whole thing. I was having some problems with my phone and I wanted to pay close attention to what was happening inside the app because I knew that people were being hurt. So I used an emulator or basically a simulation of a phone inside the computer. I downloaded the app And I used it for a little bit of time. What I’m gonna tell you now doesn’t sound the best but it’s important so that you understand. I wasn’t supposed to be on the app. They blocked me from the app and the reason they blocked me is because I was actually bringing attention to the issue. That’s Why. Because I wouldn’t sit down and shut up and be complicit in this game they were playing. Because I refuse to shut up when minors and young women are and currently and have been targeted in ways where minors shouldn’t be targeted. Yeah, that kind of thing. It wasn’t just minor though, it was any woman on the app. I have heard stories of people going through major psychological stress and symptoms of trauma because of this app.  I have contacted or been in contact with people who talked about doing things that indicated they did not like themselves at all. One of these was this girl that I was talking to. Anyways, let’s back up a little bit here. I was able to go through my computer after I disconnected it from the internet and looked through the records of my connections and everything. I found out that my computer and the android studio program I was using created an entry point for the hackers who were involved in this. Now there are four apps on that emulator. Everything else was bloatware (things that are included on the phone when you buy them from the manufacturer. So like for Apple, Apple Music, FaceTime, that is bloatware.) The first app was the app in question. The second was a social media app, and the third and fourth had to do with stock market trading. There’s no other way that someone could’ve gotten into my computer in any other fashion and I have proof of that.i have screenshots… proof that there was a incredible amount of data coming into my computer. We are talking 340 gigs in 40 minutes. To put that in your perspective, that is like 12 full length 4K movies meaning 24+ hours of continuous video. I don’t think I have to tell you that that’s unusual especially for. Computer from 2014. It should’ve have ever been possible for my computer to operate. Basically what you need to know is that I traced it back through the emulator to this app. I had people who knew insider information about the app and about me who shouldn’t have had that information. For example, I made a new account I was on there for about two days. Maybe a little more, that is when I got a message from somebody saying that they knew who I was and mentioned to me by name. This is not possible, it’s not. The only way that this would happen is if somebody inside the app or the company was monitoring my IP address. The same thing happened with her… but a little different. She made a new account within a second, she got a message saying “this is a perfect username for you.” It was something that she picked about Medusa for some reason.  Again, no way anybody could’ve known that. It was a brand new account just like the one I made, and it was a message that came in immediately when she made the account.  There are two kinds of people on this app, and there are the predators and then enablers and then there are the ones who are on the app to get help. Those who need help are the people that I’m concerned about, and these other people that I have been fighting for because I’m not going let someone get hurt. By the way for you people who are more technical 45K ping. Also not normal. None of this was normal. When I called Apple about this today, I explained to them the situation. I was supposed to talk with someone at the senior level, but they refused to talk to me. What that means is they refused to talk to me. This is because they could be held liable as this app was on their store. Don’t misunderstand it because it’s also on Google play as well. The app is called TalkLife, stay away from it. It’s dangerous and I have proof of that now. What’s going on there is abuse and I do not know what to do, I’m scared, and I need just one person to believe me. that’s it. I suggest you go do research on your own.  There’s more than enough evidence online that you will find that back up my claims. One of them is a website that’s actually run by some media company I think who explains how dangerous this is. They wrote a whole article on it. I’ve contacted the FTC as I said earlier and I’ve also contacted the Department of Justice. Im scared. Also super important when I remove the app from my phone and when I remove the app from my computer, they both returned to normal. Now you understand why I’m scared for my safety. I have screenshots. 
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I Don’t Know Anymore
Relationship Stress / by johnng823
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May 30th, 2023
...See more I haven’t been on here in a while, I haven’t needed it. I’ve kinda visited a couple times, but never spent more than a couple seconds just checking everything out. I’ll start at the beginning, a very good place to start. In February my longtime girlfriend broke up with me. It should’ve bothered me more but it doesn’t, I guess our relationship was so toxic I let go a long time ago. We always had issues, she would push me away & I’d try to fix things but it just never really helped any of the situations we were in. We would break up and get back together, because I’d be sick of dealing with her but feeling like she was the best I was going to get. I know now that’s not true. I had a little trouble and it does make me sad I guess but this isn’t why I’m back here and struggling. Fast forward a couple weeks. I went on this app for talking about your mental health with others like you hoping to really get some of what happened off my chest. That’s when I started talking to this girl. I thought she was so great, so cute and sweet. Maybe she was and it was all a misunderstanding. Anyway I talked with her for about a month and was pretty enamored with her. Thought for some reason I was in love but now I realize it was just infatuation. I’m not going to go into specifics just because I don’t want this to be too long, but that went downhill too. And when that happened I was really upset about it and that is because I really thought that girl was different and I believe she was different. But she wasn’t. I started talking to a couple people about how I felt about it, and this one girl saw one of my posts, and she actually reached out to me. She comforted me, she was there for me, understood how I felt, made me feel like I wasn’t garbage and I started to fall for her really hard and pretty fast. I am still talking to this person, and she is absolutely wonderful, I could talk about her and how great she is for ours. So we’re not officially together, but we are, if that makes sense. We agreed to be mutually exclusive, but we don’t have any titles. No boyfriend and girlfriend though we really are. We honestly love each other, we say it to each other. There are a couple problems, one that really bothers me and really affects her. The main issue is before we started talking. There was this guy that she was interacting with. This man is not a good person, but he is very manipulative and still is. He’s just not a good person and he hurt her a lot. He basically played games with her heart… said some things to her that I’m not going to repeat but just used her for his own enjoyment if you get what I’m saying. She never met this man, they were long-distance, and not really in a relationship with one another. That’s probably a little bit of why we aren’t in a relationship with each other. She is scared of him and terrified of being hurt again. I guess in reality I’m scared of him too, just not in the same way that she’s scared of him. She scared of him manipulating her and physically harming her. I’m scared of him because I’m afraid that because he knew her so well and because they got so close, and because his is so manipulative, really frankly evil he will be able to talk her away from me. There are a little signs that could happen. Some of the things that she says about him, like the other day, she was writing a poem about him, and it got kind of lusty. And she thinks about him a lot. He’s kind of stalker-ish. Like he interacts with her in different forms, but doesn’t say who he is. It’s kind of obvious sometimes and even though that I never talked to the guy when someone popped up, I could tell it was him. I get this gut feelings, and apparently I was right. She wrote a poem about him, saying that she knew that the person who had been interacting with her stuff was him, but not really out right and that person deleted his account. That’s pretty telling. It really bothers me and it really scares me that he could just say all the right things, maybe paint me in a bad light, I don’t know. But I honestly really care for her and I’m honestly really scared of losing her to him. I’d say he’s garbage, but he’s below that, she thinks that he’s done this to other women and I agree. It’s hard on whatever relationship that we have and it causes problems especially when her whole attitude can change on a dime when she thinks about him or interacts with him and realizes that it is him. What can I do? She says that she loves me and wants to be with me, I even think she’s really close to actually wanting to label whatever this relationship we have together is. It’s also that I hate to see her hurt. It’s angry, it’s upsetting, it makes me just want to be there for her and take care of her. But like him, we are long distance as well so I can’t do that. We talk a lot and I know that I bring her a lot of comfort. She’s experienced a lot of firsts with me. Like the first guy not to beg her for pictures of that way, the first guy to really try and not stop trying. The first guy to make her feel like she has worth. She trusts me. I trust her. I don’t know what to do.
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This is a stupid day
Relationship Stress / by johnng823
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February 15th, 2023
...See more Yes. I’d a stupid day
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This is so difficult to say….
Relationship Stress / by johnng823
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February 13th, 2023
...See more I hope she never sees this, because I don’t know what her response would be. It’s a harsh reality and she doesn’t understand, and I won’t tell her. But these years with her were great… I just wish we never made contact again. See we knew each other in 2013, stopped talking for some reason, and we’ve been in relationships with each other since she messaged me in 2018. I just don’t want to remember anymore. I don’t want to see her in my head. In my dreams. When I close my eyes. I want the dreams where she’s with someone else, they need to stop. I need to move on, even if she comes back I don’t know if I can deal with it and her like before. I JUST WANT TO FORGET EVERYTHING. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6wpG6eKYE
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Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹
Relationship Stress / by johnng823
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February 13th, 2023
...See more From pain caused by one, to pain caused by another. I get it. We’re equal now. But in reality we aren’t. You ignored me for days. I tried to get your attention. But you would have none of it. You were always too busy to see me. Now I know because I wasn’t important to you. That’s not how you treat someone you love.
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I trusted you
Relationship Stress / by johnng823
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February 25th, 2023
...See more I stupidly trusted you. I thought you’d always try because I thought… I thought you loved me like I love you. But obviously that’s not the truth. It hurts so much. I never ever thought you’d say those words I heard from so many. “I need to work on myself.” “I don’t want to be in relationship right now.” “Let’s just be friends.” All the same thing. I get it, I hurt you. But you hurt me too and every time I tried to save us you weren’t interested. Maybe that’s the truth though, that you weren’t as interested as I thought you were.
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I’m not..
Relationship Stress / by johnng823
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February 11th, 2023
...See more I’m not doing well today. I’m breaking down and there’s no one to pick me up. My world is falling apart. The person I love the most doesn’t want to be with anymore. I’m like I’m drowning and it’s my fault. If I could’ve been more understanding, or stood my ground when I told her I’d only stay if we would go to therapy and I failed to keep that promise to myself and her. I just couldn’t be without her and now it doesn’t matter really, does it? I see her when I close my eyes, in my dreams. There’s no escaping her.
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Today…
Relationship Stress / by johnng823
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February 11th, 2023
...See more https://www.7cups.com/forum/RelationshipFriendshipSupport_66/ShareYourStory_1034/BeenAWhile_297866/ I know the issue, why we clash and why we love each other so much. It’s said that opposites attract - clearly that’s what our romantic relationship was. I can see things in her she and other exes of hers haven’t seen. Or can’t see. Anyway the actual reason we have trouble is because of our upbringing. I don’t know how much she understands this but we both came from homes where at least one parent was abusive. Dad was physically abusive, I’m not going to say much more than that. I’m still scared of him even though he’s “different.” Mom, well she’s the best mom you could have. Everything a mom should do she’s done, and beyond. She’s always been my support system, my mom I mean. So I have a good relationship with my mom, I feel like I can tell her almost anything. While searching through Google yesterday though I came across relationship attachment issues, and everything just kinda clicked again. That seems to happen a lot. I can already tell you that I’m 99% sure she is an avoidant, and myself I am anxious. Kinda crazy it took me this long to realize. I don’t think that damns our relationship but I think it makes it really, really difficult. And maybe that’s what she sees in me, someone her dad wasn’t. What do you think?
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