- Chen starts of speaking of how the internet is no much different today then it was in 2016 and how he met a close friend through the internet
- His meeting and bond with his best friend
- There is still a stigma about meeting people online
- Cat fishing and its problem and where it originates
- Explaining how “cat fishing” the show works
- Further explaining how someone was caught catfishing someone from the show
- Shows how people purposely ignore the signs that are clear to them. also how people who do the cat fishing are “deranged” and look for entertainment
- Cat fishing is a mix of old fears and new anxieties that questions the authenticity of online friendships
- Computers scientist JCR Licklider believed that the internet was a place people could come together and would lead to truer bonds that real world relationships
- Social media and the internet keep people from building real relationships
- Facebook makes people feel lonely and the creator seeing it through the eyes of a programmer rather then a ” college student”
- Anonymity is a big factor on why people are able to catfish
- Computers area a small part of ourselves the portion devoted to logic, order, rule, and clarity.
- Introducing earlier social media before Facebook and Myspace
- First social network “makeoutclub”
- Makeoutclub made for a distinct group of lonely people looking to find others like themE
- Excerpt from Andy Greenwald book
- Great place for hookups but not what it was made for
- How Austin was able to meet someone proving how meeting people online can work sometimes
- Real online friendships are present you just have to actively look for it
- Austins story on how he met a women through social media because he made a decision that is he met a girl with an eye patch he would marry her
- Austin eventually came in contact with her again and in person and eventually married here
- There are still social medias that allow people to make friendships that aren’t exclusive to the internet
- As much bullshit there is on the internet you can always find someone else to bullshit with
- Makeoutclub still exist and gives the author a nostalgic feeling for the early days of social networking
- Makeoutclub forum
Skip to content
ENG1101-72 English Composition 1, SP2019
The Split Self: Personal Identity On- and Off-line
