The Catfish documentary really helps you realize how people like to minipulate the power that they have over the internet. The internet gives some people comfort because they can hide their faces and feelings behind a computer screen. People that do such things, as the woman did on catfish, usually do not care who they hurt or tamper with. The pleasure that the sender of the false information only grows with each message they send. From watching the show Catfish on television, it is not hard to see that people fall for this type of thing on almost a daily basis.
On one episode I recall a man sending a girl, that he thought he was in love with, several checks and cash to "pay her bills". Personally there is no way that I would send money to someone if:
1. I have not met them in person
2. I do not know them on a personal level
3. I do not actually know that they would pay me back
4. I DON'T KNOW THEM
The moral of this post is you can not trust someone you don't know and you have to watch the ones you do know. To catfish someone you have to get them psychologically first and then capture them emotionally. The process is not easy, but there are smart people that do this on a daily basis. It is morally wrong because she used her child, she cheated on her husband, and she lied the whole time. That in itself is the problem with free will on the internet and people getting catfished.
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