Catfish: Fake identity

Technology is advancing every single day. It has both its ups and downs. But it most likely affects social media negatively. Anyone with access to the internet has the power to steal identities or just create a brand new one. With social media being so advanced people can now use it as a barrier between their true identity and their social media identity.

Nev made a documentary completely dedicated to someone making a new identity on Facebook. Angela posted as a beautiful mom of a very talented daughter who painted. Nev would get in touch with Angela to buy paintings that her daughter made. Slowly Nev starts to meet Angela’s kids through social media. He begins to speak to Megan, who is Angela’s daughter as well. That's when things start to get a little fishy. Nev found out that the audios of Megan signing were fake and so were the ones of her playing the piano. He started to investigate if everyone was telling the truth about who they were, where they lived, and what they did. He travels all the way to michigan, where all his suspicions are proved to him. The mom Angela had made up a new life for herself and Nev was never actually talking to Megan. The whole time he was speaking to Angela.

Nev confronted Angela and she still continued to make up lies. She only come forward with some of her lies. Angela had a hard life a home and it seemed like that’s what she was using as a justification to her errors. In my opinion everyone has hardships and that should not give us the right to catfish anyone. Our hardships shouldn't become someone else's. A lot of people have sympathy towards Angela because of the life she has at home but is that really a valid reason to do what she did to Nev?

Catfish is a thing now. Everyone knows what it means to be catfished and many people have actually been catfished before. How is it that it got to the point where one could even say that being catfished is a popular thing now in society. Nev went as far as creating a Tv series called Catfish where he helps people find out if the person they have been speaking to through social media is actually who they say they are. How is it that we have reached this point in technology where we can't even trust that we are actually talking to who the person says they are?