Catfishing?

After thinking about the original catfish episode involving Angela, I personally do not feel as if she deserves much sympathy. When I thought about what she was going through in her personal life and what she had done to Nev, the bad kind of outweighed the good. We all go through rough patches in our lives but, that does not give us lead way to hurt others.

Catfishing is a type of deceptive activity where a person creates a fake identity for the wrong reasons. Not only did Angela create one fake identity but, she basically created a whole community and at no point decided it had gone too far. After it was brought to her attention that Nev was aware of these deceptions she had been presenting to him, she continued to lie.

Since I had seen the show catfish prior to watching this documentary I had always been cautious when it came to online relationships or interacting with people whom I did not know. I believe that Nev was careless in a way, most likely because he had not been exposed to something such as this or flat out never expected something such as this to happen to him. With Nev having such a big heart, it is much like him to feel that someone would never lie about who they are. He is an exceedingly compassionate guy and even as he told Angela that he knew how she had deceived him, not once did he seem to get angry with her or lash out. For someone to deceive me, they are at that point simply a huge liar. That is what makes me instead, have much sympathy for Nev. He had no warning, and instead was forced to deal with this betrayal. The way Angela’s husband explained the term of catfish as being someone that keeps us on our toes does not do Angela’s actions justice. It is far worse than that to tamper with someone’s personal life and feelings to that degree.

In response to this documentary, I believe the best way to keep ourselves out of predicaments such as this one, avoid being hurt, and keep our personal data safe, is that we must be extremely cautious. We should keep our pages private on social media and avoid sharing much personal information with people who we have never met or seen. Something far more dangerous could have possibly happened in any other given scenario, especially with how people are nowadays.