Technology seems wonderful until you find yourself with a push notification that you have a new private message, and it's from a complete stranger who does not understand boundaries. It happens so often to all of us, though many of us just ignore them. Some respond, leading to uncomfortable interactions like these.

Sometimes, the messages are sent by people we know, making them all the more terrifying, since we have to interact with these people in the real world.

It's scary what people decide to say to you when they're hidden behind the veil of an app or a website. Apparently, most people have no sense of what's creepy at all, and that gives us some very awkward interactions we can't imagine receiving (or sending, of course. What were they thinking?).

The following messages were collected from the subreddit /r/CreepyPMs where users can submit any unsolicited message they've received from all different types of apps. Here are 14 text conversations full of cringe.