Online Dating In Catfish: The TV Show

Activity 7(pp. 24-25): 1) In the newspaper I read an article about match and tinder. A person who is trying to find a spouse may create a fun and flirty profile on an online dating website. The person is creating a positive public persona of someone it would be fun to date or join in a relationship.

With all the social media account based apps and websites it’s easy to falsify personal information with just a click of a button, and boom you are a different person. Even using different pictures to physically change your appearance digitally. There are hundreds of reason why people falsify personal information but the most likely is to get attention for others, boost confidence in themselves by pretending to be somebody else, or maybe to get alternative things like money, jobs, friendships, or relationships. Referring to paragraph one about the show catfish they have tons of examples of people using fake accounts to gain attention, relationships and even using it to get money or other valuable from strangers. For Example, in season one episode three a young lady by the name of kim had been talking to a man named matt who had altered his identity over the internet for ten years because he was ashamed of his appearance.

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

I just learned about Catfish: the TV show, which airs on MTV through my young nieces. It was originally a documentary, Catfish: the Movie about Nev Shulman, who met a woman through the internet whom he fell in love with. In the end, the woman that he thought he knew, was not the person that he believed her to be. She very craftily spun a web of lies and entangled him in it.

The truth may be a vital part of a relationship, but many people believe that starting relationships online is an outlet to pretending to be whoever you want in life. There is two sides to every problem and with catfishing, that is the case. Catfishing has become more frequent and very common on many online communities. With many catfishes out there how will people know what is the truth and what is a lie? It all comes down to the awareness you have with your online presence. Catfishing has been going on for quite some time but there was one case that brought it out into the spotlight, and that case is the one of the now Catfish: The Tv Show host Yaniv Schulman.

When portraying the medium of social media in cinema, director’s have used a variety of techniques to incorporate the medium into their films. As a result, they have created a representation of social media in film that is far different than it appears in the world. Outside of cinema, social media appears to function with one main goal in mind, which is to provide a platform for people to socially build a connection with one another. As Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg once said, Facebook “was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected”. Alternatively, films such as Catfish use cinematic techniques to portray their own representation of social media that shows the complete opposite of Mark Zuckerberg’s goal.

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.

Although the idea and methods behind catfishing have become well-known and mainstream since the release of Catfish: the Movie and the resulting television spin-off in which Nev Schulman and his film making friend Max Joseph, in which they travel America uncovering tales of online romance, catfishing has been around since the days of dating phone lines. Recently, this has been reinforced in an episode of Catfish: the TV Show, a reality show based on the true

The generation of today enjoys their lives largely revolving around technology. You can go to school online, buy all of your groceries from your home, and make video conference calls around the world. Naturally, in order to meet these desires, the world of online dating has flourished. Millions of people are signing up for a variety of websites that guarantee happiness for all different types of people. For those who can’t seem to find the time to go out and meet other singles in their community, online dating is seen as a quick and convenient way to discover relationships. Online dating has become a popular new mechanism for seeking a romantic partner and initiating intimate relationships.

Homnack (2015) suggests that “online dating has changed the ways in which interpersonal relationships are developed and maintained” (p. 2); Online daters are granted access to use various platforms through which they can easily meet other singles alike to them. Holloway and Valentine (2003) highlight that “for marginalized people, the internet allows them to meet other people alike to themselves who may not be immediately available in their local social circles” (Pascoe, 2011, p. 9). According to Pascoe (2009a) “young adults especially are at the forefront of developing, using, reworking, and incorporating new media into their dating practices in ways that might be unknown, unfamiliar and sometimes scary to adults” (p. 117). Today, the main

In this paper, I have discussed how online dating is becoming popular and how the individuals are usually deceived by it. I have also discussed how the new television show Catfish is turning out to be a great example of how social media has changed online dating. All in all, I have covered the negative outcomes of online dating.

In our society today a person can often look around a room of people and see nothing but the top of their heads, along with their eyes staring down at lit up screen filled with tremendous possibilities. One thing you doubtfully will view is everyone surrounding talking to each other making kinship with in their proximity. Instead, making connections through their phones. In the article written by Nancy Jo Sales “Tinder and the Dawn of the“Dating Apocalypse””, Sales speaks of the dating culture of the current twenty-first century and her views on how online dating has affected thus creating a sort of “Dating Apocalypse”. In the culture of intimacy may it be consciously or subconsciously people are seeking love and security in their lives through hookups and technological dating cites such as Tinder.

Statistics show that people who use online dating sites or dating apps has been increasing yearly. Dating digitally is easy, no one has to get ready or travel to meet people. There are sites and apps dedicated to certain groups of people, meaning no one will feel excluded, when searching for love. Almost as if there couldn’t be a reason why someone shouldn’t try it, just once. Multiple people have reported using dating sites at least once in their lives, considering it’s trendy. In the past two years, 18 to 24 year olds who have reported using dating sites or apps have tripled, while the number of 55 to 64 year olds using the sites have doubled (Smith). Since digital dating and hookup culture is on the rise, so are the potential dangers behind it, which include: scammers, fake profiles, and physical harm. The majority of apps have come to someone deciding if they want to meet someone based on their looks, but what about who they are and their past?  Most people assume that the risk of online dating is low, and if there is a threat it won’t happen to them. Probably since the media doesn’t cover the hazards for dating online. It isn’t about where they met, it’s about what happened after they met. All in all, people don’t know how to spot the red flags of potential harm.

Following the inception of the internet in 1996, many individuals set out to utilize the field of networking that the internet could provide. Social networking sites such as Facebook have allowed for individuals to connect on a global scale without ever having to leave the comforts of their home. While being able to stay in contact with relative from faraway or foreign acquaintances, many people have discovered that they are able to fake their identities online in order to take advantage of other individuals. The film Catfish documents the interactions between Nev, a photographer, and a girl, Abby, who paints his art. Nev grows closer with Abby as well as with her family through exchanges on Facebook. Eventually, Nev develops an intimate relationship with Abby’s sister, Meghan. Meghan and Nev initially exchange messages on Facebook until they grow closer and text via their telephones. After Nev and Meghan have been texting for three months, Nev begins to discover inconsistencies in information Meghan has told him about her personal life. Following a brief break in communication, Nev decides to fly to Michigan to see Meghan in person. When he arrives at her house, he discovers a family very different from the one he had known on Facebook. Nev begins to question the mother, Angela, about the misinformation he had been receiving. Over a period of three days, Nev discovers that not only does not Meghan not exist, but that he had been texting Angela all along. Angela informs Nev

During my sophomore year of high school, there was this boy in my math class named Preston Brown. The bell rang and dismissed the class, I got up from my desk and saw him smiling down at me. He asked for my number and we both exchanged it, I could tell he fell accomplished because his friends were cheering for him. Months later, he tried to make me interested in him by showing me his athletic skills and his gentlemen ways of treating a girl properly. I was interested in him but I never admitted my feelings because I did not feel ready dating him.