We Are Catfish

We have all heard of or seen the show called Catfish at least once in our lives. It is basically about a person who hides behind a social media platform and a fake picture to make it seem as though they are someone they are not. This has really come to the light in the last couple of years because of the show Catfish. People tend to hide their identity because of low self-confidence, they feel as though they are not attractive enough or either just to be plain evil and play pranks on people. People take this thing way too far. They find others on social media and build relationships and friendships. I specifically remember this crazy episode on the show where this one girl catfished someone just to get on the show and tell the world and her family she was gay. People find some of the craziest reasons to play this game with people.

As we discussed in class, I can definitely see how we all are actually some kind of catfish. Do we really portray our TRUE selves on our social media pages? I know I do not and if I did people would probably think I was crazy for sure. On social media we only tend to show our good days. On sunny and warm days we record happy videos on snapchat of ourselves living perfectly happy lives but no one shows the days when life seems like it is crumbling. Everybody wants to put on this perfect face for the world, literally! We actually have filters to put over our selfies to make us look more handsome or prettier. It is so weird when I actually sit and think about it because when you use one of the filters on snapchat, Instagram or even Twitter that is not the real you.

I think next time we point the finger at someone on catfish and say they are wrong for what they do, we should look at ourselves. Every day we live this fake catfish life, filtering up everything to make it look a certain way. Why are we so quick to cover up our real world or live a life through social media? I have my opinions but I think everybody should think about it and really go into depth about why we try make everything “look” so good.

Thanks Nev for this show, we are all Catfish.