When reading the about the principle of Honestly, you would think that most people would know what this means. It is sad to think about how many people are dishonest in social media; because they think that no one will figure out who they are. In class we talked about a case where a blogger Crystal Cox started making up things about Kevin Padrick. He was involved in a bankrupt company, and she blog about a lot of false accusations about him. She ended up getting sued, and had to pay a huge settlement. However, many people believed what was said and he lost creditability.
The article I found talks about the show Catfish on MTV. The shows is all about how people lie on Facebook. The host of the show finds people in online relationships, that have never meet the other person. The host will then do research about the person who seems to be lying, and will find a way for them to meet. Most of the time the person is lying, and not really who they say they are. Sometimes it is little things like weight or jobs. It can also be gender, or they are a completely different person. I have seen a episode where someone took all of these pictures from someones MySpace page, and created an entire new identity. It is really weird that someone would go that far.
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