Author: Elhadj

1. 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
2. His meeting and bond with his best friend
3. There is still a stigma about meeting people online
4. Cat fishing and its problem and where it originates
5. Explaining how “cat fishing” the show works
6. Further explaining how someone was caught catfishing someone from the show
7. 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
8. Cat fishing is a mix of old fears and new anxieties that questions the authenticity of online friendships
9. 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
10. Social media and the internet keep people from building real relationships
11.  Facebook makes people feel lonely and the creator seeing it through the eyes of a programmer rather then a ” college student”
12. Anonymity is a big factor on why people are able to catfish
13. Computers area a small part of ourselves the portion devoted to logic, order, rule, and clarity.
14. Introducing earlier social media before Facebook and Myspace
15. First social network “makeoutclub”
16. Makeoutclub made for a distinct group of lonely people looking to find others like themE
17. Excerpt from Andy Greenwald book
18. Great place for hookups but not what it was made for
19. How Austin was able to meet someone proving how meeting people online can work sometimes
20. Real online friendships are present you just have to actively look for it
21. 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
22. Austin eventually came in contact with her again and in person and eventually married here
23. There are still social medias that allow people to make friendships that aren’t exclusive to the internet
24. As much bullshit there is on the internet you can always find someone else to bullshit with
25. Makeoutclub still exist and gives the author a nostalgic feeling for the early days of social networking
26. Makeoutclub forum

five ways Salz describes what a selfie is:

1. A fast self portrait
2. Selfies are casual
3. Silly,typical.boring
4. Locatable but not describable
5. Extraordinary moment

five was Salz describe what a selfie is not:

1. not like the self portraits
2. selfies don’t make pretentious claims
3. if both of your hands are in the picture
4. created by artist
5. never accidental

1)In the article “Art at Arm’s Length” Jerry Salz expresses what a selfie is in comparison to a self portrait. he claims that selfies today have revolutionized the way we are able to communicate by taking quick photos that can be casual, silly, typical,and or boring, all the while expressing how we feel in a specific moment. Salz further emphasizes how we use selfies in order to share intimate,scary or funny moments

2)He uses this hook because it immediatley catches the audience attention by giving a statement and in a way forcing the audience to want to know why he believes this

3)In the following sentence he explains what a selfie is and how fast it reaches to social media and online    this builds of the first sentence because it tells the reader how smartphones make it easier for people to post their everyday lives

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