Freewrite week 6 day 6

I have gotten really into the show Catfish.  It has to do with online relationships where people are being untruthful about who they are.  This isn’t very surprising to me because right after high school I got big into chat rooms and talking to people online.  I was drawn into talking to people who knew nothing about me.  It really gives you so much license to be anyone you wanted.  Now people are so technology save’ that they can do anything.  They take other peoples pictures and create profiles to talk to other people.  They lie about their gender, age, and sometimes sexual orientation.  It really makes you think more about how much people lie.  Is it because we are becoming so disconnected in our lives?  People spend more time dealing with technology and social media then in the real world.  I know that I was a victim more than once of online relationships.  I can honestly say that they didn’t know who I really was.  I was me but more of what they wanted me to be than myself.  So I can relate to the TV show and the traps that people can get into or ones we place ourselves in.  The pitfalls to some of the stories on Catfish are because people trust too much of what people tell them to be 100% truthful.  I like to quote House in situations like that, “Everyone lies.”  My partner and I look at each other and ask would we wait years to meet each other?  Nope it would never happen.  These people seem to be okay talking by computer or phone for years.  If I fell in love with someone I wouldn’t be able to invest that much time without knowing what they were like in real life.  Then there is the bullying side of Cat-fishing where people become someone else to hurt another person.  It also shows the addiction people have with creating fake profiles and online lives and how they can’t give that up.  They would rather live in this make believe word than in the real world.