Damn, sorry to hear that. He sounds like a really lame person. I'd give you a hug if I could. And yeah, I've found most furs to be rather flaky at best, and finding one who isn't is rather rare. Hope the rest of the con wasn't a bust.

I did take the chance to go up to the top of Reunion Tower. Great views from up there.

I've had the same experience, but at the same time can say I'm guilty as well. Usually just hang out with people at cons in short spurts because everybody is trying to hangout/meet everybody they know.

As far as the phone situation I never could hear it go off. Pretty much just told everybody to txt me and I'd get around to viewing their message eventually.

Not hearing the phone go off is one thing. Not checking your messages at some point is another. I've met furs before just by coordinating over messaging apps. I mistakenly assumed this time would be no different.

Also he didn't know he never gave me his number.

Sorry you had a bad experience. In my time of being in furry, it seems like quite a good deal of people tend to be in it for their own. What I mean to say is - a lot of furs are in their own little world in furry, with the expectation of the furry world around them catering to them, rather than them trying to cater to others. I am not trying to place blame or anything - but try to always seek out others who are full of charity, kindness, love and good works, and the chances are hopefully a lot less likely that you will get stood up...

Again, sorry to hear about the bad experience..but there are some good ones out there..they just tend to be outnumbered by a lot of people just caught up in their own adventures who haven't learned to reach out a lot and include others. Best wishes and prayers for you.

For my part I intend to try to pay more attention to the local furry telegram channels, but between all the discord servers, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram it's a bit overwhelming.

Understandable.. We are living in a society that promotes hedonism and hedonistic behavior. Everyone pleasure themselves over helping others, or at least it can be heavily encouraged at times.. And the type of society that one lives in unfortunately determines as a general rule what type of behavior and personality the majority of individuals that you will come across behaves as. Guard your heart, but do give kindness and compassion wherever your path may take you, and in doing so you will help to offset a lot of that 'for the self' attitude that you come across out there.

Law of attraction/vibration and that sort of thing. I do believe that to some effect, the more compassion and kindness you can put out in the world - the more you will find being sent your way. Not always when you are expecting, but I guess the game would be too easy to figure out if that were the case..

I used to be knee-deep in all that social media/messenger stuff myself.. always looking for friends and likes and shout outs before I found peace and happiness in the LORD and Jesus. I hope I don't scare you away with commenting on that - but truthfully, putting faith in place of where I used to fill that hole with people online and from various sites...the difference is night and day. It's like a sort of natural protection from loneliness or even if you find your friends lacking.

Not to disparage friends and friendship, as I do consider family and friendships the most important treasures of this momentary amount of time we are spending here, bumping elbows with each other before we go where we go next. God bless you Delfi, may you find all the friends and happiness you are looking for. Don't let the bad experiences along the way sour your heart.

I think we live in an age of information overload. We have instant access to everything and our brains aren't wired to handle that. All these apps that are supposed to help us communicate have done so at the cost of the value of meeting face to face or calling.