The Pros And Cons Of Catfishing

Catfish poses the question “How well do we really know our Facebook friends?” (Eshbach, Teklits, Hoover) we know people based on their mutual likes and interests, but Facebook brings together people that actually do have no have common interests, just by saying “yeah I know that person, we’re Facebook friends”, there is more to actually knowing a person than what Facebook promotes. Angela shows this example of how the internet allows a person to be what they want over who they actually are, such as how online she is young and pretty and her real life contradicts that, “contriving a personality as a means of escape is not necessarily a negative outlet, creating a friend-base off one does not line up with what friendship should be.” (Eshbach,

Social networking has created foggy divisions between online and real life communications and interactions. Such as the story of the “ Gay ‘Catfish’ Speaks Out: ‘It’s Like a Last Hope That Maybe Someone Will Still Love Me” whereas a famous blogger Davey Wavey posted online looking into the motives and logic behind gay catfish. The men he talked to expressed how they felt invisible, and that without catfishing others, they will not have any interaction with other gay

Animation opens up questions about the selves, bodies, objects, audiences, labor, and the meaning of life (Gershon "What Do We Talk about When We Talk About Animation.”) Animation is based on how deciders how their performance lays out, which is ones own responsibility, but the audience plays a large part in aiding in the performance of the animated character. Such as how a Catfish works off of how the person and people they are catfishing contribute to the Catfishes performance of their stories and actions. Gershon states that “Characters are often drawn and written as compilations of conventionalized markers, merely implying details and nuance, which encourages the audience to project an affective connection and various social complexities onto the character” , which regards that media ideologies come into place how the audience acknowledges the perforce of the character, and often times since people being catfished become emotionally attached to the Catfish, and continues with the creation of the character they want to believe is