Catfish

After watching the movie Catfish it is very easy for me to see why a lot of the things that we see online are not real. I think that they really are recording the truth but I am sure they have to stage some of it to make the film easy to shoot. I do not see how Angela could not have mental health issues. Someone must be very lonely or hate their life for them to want to make up a whole family on facebook. Although, the person who fell for the fake profile should have noticed the “red flags” that were given such as: few friends, never being able to talk to Abby on the phone, etc. Having problems like the one seen in Catfish could potentially be dangerous depending on who the people involved are. If it was someone much younger, someone asking for money, or someone trying to take advantage in some other way, it could be dangerous. Even with the danger of it I do not see how facebook could prevent it. I believe that we put too much trust in to facebook and this can cause a lot of problems like the one in Catfish. We cannot trust what we see on facebook; especially if we do not know the person trying to add us. That is why every one should take extra precautions and not add people you do not know. I do not think that Angela much if any negative consequences. The only thing that she could have ruined was the way people saw her. But even besides that she now has her own website for her to sell her artwork and has received plenty of publicity for it. Her husband did not even seem to care about what she did. It almost shows that doing something like this is okay when it actually is not.