9:53 pm - 01/30/2013
To some extent, we've all done it.
Catfish Lite: Don’t Pretend You’ve Never Lied Online
Lately, the concept of "catfishing" — luring someone into an online relationship by pretending to be someone that you're not — has been surrounded by its fair share of controversy, but how controversial is it in actuality? Believe it or not, a little controlled catfishing is something that plenty of the Instant Message generation has experimented with, even if we're unwilling to admit it. Really, who hasn't tried to escape their reality by pretending to be a 17-year-old varsity baseball player in an N*SYNC chat room every now and then?
This morning's Today Show featured a segment from Dr. Phil McGraw's upcoming interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Tuiasosopo, for those of you at home, is the 22-year-old man who became a household name after being exposed by Deadspin as the man behind Lennay Kekua, the fake dead girlfriend of Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o. Tuiasosopo, who used photos of a stranger to woo Te'o online, confessed to Dr. Phil that, while Lennay Kekua was a lie, all of "her" (his) feelings were very real.
McGraw tells Today:
Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love. I asked him straight up, "Was this a romantic relationship with you?" And he says yes. I said, "Are you then therefore gay?" And he said, "When you put it that way, yes." And then he caught himself and said, "I am confused."
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Lately, the concept of "catfishing" — luring someone into an online relationship by pretending to be someone that you're not — has been surrounded by its fair share of controversy, but how controversial is it in actuality? Believe it or not, a little controlled catfishing is something that plenty of the Instant Message generation has experimented with, even if we're unwilling to admit it. Really, who hasn't tried to escape their reality by pretending to be a 17-year-old varsity baseball player in an N*SYNC chat room every now and then?
This morning's Today Show featured a segment from Dr. Phil McGraw's upcoming interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Tuiasosopo, for those of you at home, is the 22-year-old man who became a household name after being exposed by Deadspin as the man behind Lennay Kekua, the fake dead girlfriend of Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o. Tuiasosopo, who used photos of a stranger to woo Te'o online, confessed to Dr. Phil that, while Lennay Kekua was a lie, all of "her" (his) feelings were very real.
McGraw tells Today:
Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love. I asked him straight up, "Was this a romantic relationship with you?" And he says yes. I said, "Are you then therefore gay?" And he said, "When you put it that way, yes." And then he caught himself and said, "I am confused."
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http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/20
There goes my interest in the dude.
I didn't get internet rights in that sense until I was a freshman in high school....my parents decided I needed a laptop for my 'studies' lmfao
Edited at 2013-01-31 04:27 am (UTC)
Edited at 2013-01-31 04:31 am (UTC)
But...how did yours not know what report cards were??
The amount of time I fucking wasted on the internet between 2002-2004, LAWD what is that black hole. My online friends were more real to me than my RL friends.
we didn't get a new modern computer and internet at my mom's house until I was 17 lol
MSN, Windows ME, and dial up
my own personal hell
Though I got my privileges restricted to 1/2 a week when i was 7th grade because my religion grade dropped.
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO SNEAK ONLINE WITH DIAL UP?
THIS FUCKER ALWAYS GAVE ME AWAY.
I used to hang out on Stacie Orrico fan forums lol
I know once when I was like 11 some guy wanted to cyber~~ with me on fucking gamesdomain.com or some shit because he thought I was a girl lol and then when we got into the private chat room he was like "so how do we do this?" and then I clicked out lol
also as a joke i made an okcupid with the most generic hipster answers and a "hot" (but attainable) girl picture as an experiment. i got like over 100 messages in 24 hours from so many turds falling over themselves
weirdos.
Edited at 2013-01-31 04:43 am (UTC)
i'm rly beyonce.
also when someone asked for my picture I always made up some lame ass lie like "my camera's broken" or "I don't have a scanner" or whatever.