9 Signs You're Falling into a Thirst Trap

Josh Chesler March 25, 2015 7:00AM

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In the days before our lives became dominated by texting and social media, ambiguously sexual messages had to be sent out one at a time.

But these days, men and women are only a click away from reaching hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people with a simple Tweet, filtered Instagram photo, or Facebook post including a possibly (but not necessarily) sexual connotation.

They're called thirst traps, and they're set using a wide variety of social media platforms. Here are nine signs you might be falling into one of them.

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