Finding the Truth

        Catfish showed that point that the potential dangers of online relationships. And how sometimes the lies that people may tell could possibly be found out with some research. Nev took some time before he actually realized all the lies that were coming from his online relationship with Angela and Abby. This may be because he didn't find a reason to second guess Abby or did want to realize that Megan may not be who she said she was.

      Either way, even though the internet allowed Angela to make those fake profiles and manipulate Nev or to believing that this family existed, Angela is in the end, responsible for her own actions. Facebook did not make those profiles, Angela did. Having online relationships are only potentially dangerous if it is not ensured that the person you are talking to is telling the truth. When Nev met up with the “real Meagan”, Aimee Gonzalez, she mentioned that it would be possible that he could met the real person and that if could have worked out, it just didn’t this time.        

     I feel that it is okay to check up on the people you are talking to on the internet. Maybe looking up a song that they claimed to have made like Nev did, or imaging searching their profile pictures. I actually don’t find it invasive since they did after all put their information up on display. Also you are unable to be there to know what they are actually doing in their everyday lives. Although I can see how it would be hard to actually do the research that Nev did and finding out the truth could because they are wanting the relationship to be true. Like how on the show Catfish, many people want to find out the truth, but are scared that it won’t be what they were hoping for.
-Ryan Smith