The Christianville Spirit: Catfish Personalities

The Christianville Spirit

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October 29, 2014-TCS # 423

So, Happy Halloween, My Readers! I do not like Halloween. Remember to be Kind to The Kids Trick or Treating and Try Not to be too Scary. Happy Halloween Everyone! Anyway, Do You Remember when I met Nev from Catfish? Well, I have been reading his book, In Real Life. To Give You a Little Background, Nev Schulman got contacted by a Beautiful Women who loved His Art, Because He was a Photographer. Well, they started conversing on Myspace and then, on Facebook. His Filmmaker Friend, Max helped film a Documentary about Nev falling in Love with this girl named Megan on The Internet. To Put It Shortly, Without too many Spoiler Alerts, He ends up going to Her House and She is not who She said she was. My Advice: Watch The Documentary, It is worth it! Anyway, so in Reading Nev’s Book, I have learned quite a bit from It. I have learned about Catfish, Why Catfish “Hook” People, and Why We Fall for The Catfish. The Truth is that Now-A-Days with Today’s Technology and Social Media, We Fail to have Decent Human Interaction. In other words, The Saying goes that if You miss someone or want to Talk to Someone, You can Facebook Message them, Skype them, Snapchat them, Email them, The List goes on..But, No one says to “Just Call Them!” or Call Them and Be Like, “I need to Talk to You, Can We meet at XYZ Place.” Unfortunately, This has an Effect on Our Health and Our Human Need. It is Our Human Need (or Human Nature) to Want to be Wanted. It is Human Nature, to be Appreciated and Loved by Someone Else who is Live, in The Flesh. But, So Many Times, We just figure that If We need Connection, then We can hop on Facebook, Twitter, or What Have You, and Find People to Talk with. However, With that Lack of Connection and Wanting to be Appreciated or The Feeling of Competition to “Friend” Everyone and comes the Thought to Create a Fake Profile to Be Someone Else. After All, You can be Anything You want on The Internet and No One will care, Right? Well, I’m Sorry to Tell You, but No! According to Nev’s Book, An Astounding 83 Million Profiles on Facebook alone are Fake Profiles. So, Why is that? Because, again with The Non-Appreciation and Their Life and/or appearance, may not be that Great and They make up for It by having a Picture of a Prettier-than-Normal “Version” of Themselves. So, That is The Answer to The First Question about Why there are Catfish. So, How do We get “Hooked” by Catfish, Because They say things that are either To-Good-To-Be-True, like that They are a Model or That Something terrible happened to Them to Tug at Your Emotions to Draw You In. In Other Words, They make up a Story about Someone who passed away or an Excuse to Why They could not make it to Meet Them in Person. They always make Excuses or Made-Up Stories so You can’t really see what They are doing until You are Hooked. The Catfish themselves, with The Lack of Love, Connection, or Self-Esteem, Getting all that that attention in an odd way, Make them feel a little better about Their Lives at Home. Of Course, There are Different Types of Catfish, which are The Cyrano Catfish (They seek or Find Love either Intentionally or Unintentionally), Revenge Catfish (The Intention to Hurt Someone), Benevolent Catfish (Very Rare; It usually is to Help Someone), Swindling Catfish (Scamming for Cash and More), Celebrity Impersonators (aka, Wanna-Be Celebrities; People pretending to be Celebrity XYZ), and Finally Everyone Else (in other words, a Fake Profile with The Exact Same Name and Picture as a Friend of Yours). So, Those are The Types of Catfish. It is Amazing to read about how many People are so Unhappy that They feel that They need to Pretend just to get others to Like Them or Pay Attention to Them. I kinda feel bad for them because They are Unhappy with Life. All in all, Don’t Believe Everything that You read on The Internet, do like Nev does, Investigate and Go to The Source with Your Questions.

Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. People with Good Intentions don’t hide Being Fake. There is No Need, Their Love comes through All Darkness.