How can anyone be sure that whomever they talk to on facebook or on any online website are actually real?

Or they are who they say they are?

Many questions should be asked….

Yesterday in class, we watched this amazing documentary (catfish) about this guy, Nev, who met this young artist on facebook. Her name was Abby. For months, they would talk on the phone, exchange emails, etc…

Then he got to meet Abby’s sister, Megan. Nev and Meg got to talk more and started liking each other. One day, Nev noticed something was wrong about Megan. He then decided to investigate and to go meet her in person.

To his surprise, there was no Megan, Abby was not an artist and it was all the doing of the mother. In fact, she created a fake account, used pictures of someone else, and pretended this whole time to be a 19 year old teenager.

Meeting people online for the 1st time might be risky. You can never be sure that the person your talking to is saying the truth or is truthful about his/her identity. Anyone can lie, use other pictures, pretend to be someone their not.

The internet is a great resource to lie and hide real identities. Especially if you have never seen that person live.

I think meeting people offline, is a better way to know a person. Even if you meet the person for the 1st time you might not figure them out directly but at least you’re sure they actually exist.