Why “catfishing” was the most Googled search in recent days
May 26, 2020
“Catfished” is one of the most Googled searches in recent days. Our interest links with the sad death of a woman who took her life after her best friend and ex catfished her.
What does catfishing mean?
Imagine you’re on a dating app and you meet someone amazing. The relationship moves very quickly online and then you somehow find out that they are not who they say they are: fake name, fake photos, fake profile.
This means you’ve been catfished.
It doesn’t just happen on dating apps it can happen by anyone to anyone on any online social platform.
It’s become so commonplace that there is even a TV show devoted to helping people who have been catfished.
The uses of the internet are ever changing.
Living well in today’s world means being savvy to the challenges, alongside being savvy to how technology can actually benefit our life.
Part of this means keeping up to date with the changing ways people use the internet to challenge us.
This is what digital literacy is and that is how digital balance is achieved.
