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        Back when I spent more time with my computer I once met an online friend. Her name was Kara Preserby from Ft. Myers, Florida. She was around 5,7 with gorgeous black hair and a love of my favorite band. She was one of the most interesting friends I have ever met. Because we were probably never going to see each other in person it was amazing to have someone that you can lay things out without fear of consequences. After watching catfish i was personally upset and shocked. Kara was a good friend to me but i wonder how i would view things if i knew she was someone else. 

         

       When I was watching Catfish the whole time i was wondering what it would be like to be tricked like that. Also I wondered how miserable you life would be if you had to live a lie. In the Dark Knight the crooked police chief Gordon once told Harvey Dent that "sometimes its easier to live a lie". After spending a couple of hours thinking about the whole situation i realized that when your life is taking care of a couple of mentally handicapped kids and thinking about your squandered life that type of knowledge might make someone go crazy. I even understand where she is coming from. Having some sort of escape or window into a life that Angela never could have.

         Only in America and in a culture with this kind of technology could this have been possible. In this day and age I feel like anyone can anonymously be anybody. Proven by Angela's tenacity it is completely possible to completely confound even the brightest of facebook users. This is an extremely scary notion. While the idea that someone could be fooling you on facebook may not be the most scary thing it can have more important consequences when you think about dating websites and other personal websites. Web 2.0 can be an extremely scary place because when you think about it there is such little order. There is simply nothing to differentiate an expert from an amateur. On the Internet from behind a computer screen it gives people the ability to do things they could never say or do to peoples faces. They could claim to be the anybody and few to anyone could claim other wise. That is what catfish really said to me. It really shakes my confidence on what I read or do on the Internet. When i go onto yahoo answers or check google for a quick answer i automatically assume that the answers are not lies. However with the impossible job of knowing who wrote what as who really makes me worry about the future. As children become raised on the Internet it will be harder and harder to explain to them what is real. Sadly even I have been having trouble sorting through WEB 2.0.