It's like MySpace to Facebook to Instagram, etc., this dating trend changes too

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'Kittenfishing' is the new 'catfishing.' What is this toxic dating trend?
Odds are, if you're on a dating app, you may have stretched the truth about yourself, at least once. Or twice. OK, maybe several times.

Well, if this sounds like you, there's a name for this behavior. It's called "kittenfishing" − and, like it's more extreme cousin "catfishing," kittenfishing, more or less, tends to end in disappointment .

Kittenfishing involves telling little lies about yourself on a dating app, or in the early stages of dating, in order to to make yourself seem more attractive. Think adding an inch or two to the height section of your dating profile. Or saying you graduated with a degree from a prestigious university, when maybe you only took a course. Or fudging your age. Or using old or heavily edited photos of yourself.

You may not be concocting an entirely fabricated persona, à la catfishing. But you aren't being totally honest either.