Catfishing

An example are kids, if they grow up to be antisocial they will not have a positive impact on humanity and not grow up to be successful. Next, how will we experience the world if we are always on our phone or devices. Human contact has made this world. It is the origin of ideas, the creation of culture, the empowerment of emotions and the compilation knowledge. All of the above would be unknown if human contact would cease to exist. The limitation of human contact is causing a decreasing in those categories now and will threaten to destroy these things. An example, as bad as the situation was, when King Louis XVI was king of France he met with the estates general in order to ascertain the well beings of his people. Without this meeting change would never have come to fruition. A letter could have been sent to everyone and I'd be hard pressed to say that the outcome would have been the same. Finally, the lack of human contact is in fact a problem because it makes us over reliant on technology and affect our businesses , it will have a bad effect on us socially as well as health wise and it takes away from experiencing the world. It will in tern have negative effects on us because we need to be social. Human contact is

Many people do online shopping instead of simply going to the store. This means personal information is saved to the computer. As this may seem as something normal there is ways people can steal that information. It has been proven over and over by big companies being hacked for example PlayStation Network. Technology does have positive sides to it but it can be an issue to your security. Besides having access to credit card information, hackers can locate where you live or even where are you now. This is dangerous since they can be searching for reasons to harm you. Another side effect now in the social media aspect is that social media basically defines you for possible employment. Companies can do basic researches and find your information of Facebook or any other social media and base their decisions on that. They can access your private information and depending who you are daily can shape up your character. This means that you should be perfect and any flaws you may have to them can be found thanks to the social media you enjoy

Social media is causing problems towards finding people and trying to make them their friend, which is creating fake people. Dating sites, Instagram, Snapchat, and many other social sites can have people hide themselves and say their someone they aren't to lure in victims to sex trafficking. Said by safety sites, a sex trafficker can be anyone you know, it could be anyone in your community, they target younger, in terms of social media, because they aren't as smart and could be depressed or vulnerable and need someone there for them. They talk to these victims through a relationship, to hope to meet in person and do what they set out for from the start. They scout who they are looking for, then they promise things in the relationship, manipulate, and then trap whoever they are out after [Internet Safety 101]. Social media also brung in the idea of providing information on where all your “friends” are on some sites or apps so you know exactly where they are. Snapchat has introduced a bit ago the feature to be able to see where someone is based on the last time they were on Snapchat, and for some people, someone could basically track them. The problem these days have people really worry about who is around and doesn't let anyone see some accounts, so put them on private, because there's to

The cyber world makes us paint a virtual identity of ourselves that could be completely different from what we actually are in reality. It allows us human beings to go further than who we in fact are and into becoming a totally different person. This enables people to communicate with various groups of people from all over the planet as long as a chat box and ‘send’ button is readily available. This anonymity makes the users feel fearless and careless about being judged which harms people at a great rate with its different associations such as catfishing, trolling

“Catfishing” a way for scammers to make up fake profiles and identities to trick people into romantic relationships. A story that I found in the Huffington Post that was interesting what that of Marissa Williams, a 19 year old female of Tuscaloosa, Alabama who lured men into her home with the use of Facebook. During this time she was living with her aunt and uncle. Her aunt did not like what she was doing on the Internet because she would bring over these strange men and preform sexual activities in exchange for money (2015). Marissa got so furious with her aunt and having her in her business that she deleted her and blocked her from seeing her Facebook. In return the aunt “catfished” the niece by creating a fake profile. She created a profile

In today's time there are many people hide behind a screen with a fake identity just to live the life they never had. While doing this they end up catfishing someone who does not deserve to be treated that way. According to the Merriam Webster, instead of just being some type of fish it has another definition that refers to “a person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes”(Webster) what tends to throw people off is the fact that the account looks so real, “A ‘catfisher’ may choose to use their own photos yet pretend to be a different age, sex, profession, in a different location, and be single when they are not. A catfisher can also use someone else's photos to create their fake

Oklahoma was the first state to put into place a law against catfishing and other states such as California, Texas and Pennsylvania are also looking to develop laws against catfishing (Allen). In 2014, a lady from South Bend, Indiana was sentenced to prison for catfishing. The woman had to serve two years in prison, three years of community service after she was released and also pay $57,000 in restitutions to the victims (Buckley). This is just one example of the legal trouble someone could get into for catfishing. Since in some states it is illegal and many other states are starting to follow in their footsteps, it is wrong to use someone else’s information in an online setting because it is breaking the

Our intended project will be focused on the idea of “online identity,” with a primary focus on the idea of “catfishing.” We are looking at how the “younger” generation is getting more tech-savvy, but at the same time, they’re becoming more gullible with things they access online.

To start off with my first media artifact of media law I will be addressing whether those that partake in the activity of Catfishing can be prosecuted for their actions. When addressing the laws that pertain to Catfishing those that had their pictures/names used for the act of Catfishing have more power to prosecute that those who have been emotionally hurt from being Catfished. According to Gil Zvulony, an internet lawyer, “In most cases, being lied to is not actionable; in other words you cannot sue for being the victim of a lie (i.e.he lied that he had brown eyes). However, when that lie is made to try and get you to part with your money, then that lie is called fraud and is illegal” (Zvulony). There are still ways for those who

The person might even be in prison trying to get close to their catfishing victim for emotional, financial or physical harm later.

Although a genuine fan of the show, it dramatizes and endorses the use of deceit in social media for the use of self-validation. Users “catfish” others for a variety of reasons. Most of the time, the person hiding is obese, not pretty in society’s eyes, of the wrong gender, race or social class. Catfish unintentionally reinforces societal beauty standards in pop culture and to millions of viewers.

To summarize, technology can cause car accidents, limits physical contact and identity can be stolen has a negative impact on human interaction. Technology can be deadly. Technology limits human interaction. Technology is hurting society severely. Technology is

In the new generation people are more into using social media has a way to interact with others more than ever. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook , and Myspace has become the new norm into networking, making friends, finding possibly a match and making a love connection. These social medias allow people to create profiles in which they can alter their information. This results in many incident where people are not who they said they are. For that reason people become catfish. The MTV show Catfish bring viewers into the world of online- dating and the result it may have. Being catfish can bring a wide variety of attention that can be discuss has to whether or not it can be considered a crime Two theories that that can explain the rise of

Today, people tend to be very open about their life on social media and honestly, it’s extremely dangerous. Alexis Madrigal makes good points on taking the data out of dating. Dating now compared to dating in the past is different in so many ways because like Madrigal says, “What if the dating sites had existed in the 1950’s?”. How would people handle those types of things knowing how different it used to be? The outcome to that wouldn’t be as well as we would think, it was too diverse then and I don’t think dating sites would last long because of the lifestyle they had to deal with was much more hands on without technology.

As technology surrounding the internet has grown there has a been a new movement to connect the world. Specifically, teens have become more inclined to socialize and connect with friends, family, and strangers through the internet. Teenagers are known for being vulnerable, naïve, having a vast desire to find acceptance with their peers or society and are obsessed with love. With the connection of the internet, social media, and teen it has created completely new moral panic; catfishing. According to, to Merriam-Webster catfishing is defined as an individual who creates a fake profile on a social networking site to deceive or manipulate others ("Catfish"). Primarily, those who catfish use their fake profiles to gain romantic relationships with other social network users. Teens began creating fake profiles through their instinct of wanting to fit in but, this led to teens catfishing to fulfill their dreams of finding acceptance. Catfishing is an internet moral panic because it is considered a social terror. The act of catfishing became a way for some teens to find acceptance but, parents feel that teens are not safe on social networking sites such as; Facebook because these deceptions can cause teens emotional and mental harm. Those constructing the moral panic continually scapegoated social network sites for the creation of catfishing and its side effects but, the true root cause of catfishing is teen’s inherent behavior.