Both the class discussion and Mr. Garrioch's comments on his blog were focused on the genuineness of this documentary, Catfish. It does not make sense that a good-looking man with a job that gives him frequent chances of meeting attractive woman in real life falls into love with a woman on-line. Also, considering the year this documentary was filmed, no use of web-cameras between the couple is unusual. 
     However, I do not think that finding out whether this documentary was filmed in a genuine way from the beginning to the end does not have much importance. I think, the filmmakers, Nev Schulman and his brothers could have distorted their movie to make it more interesting and adventurous, thus to make more profit out of it. We can criticize him for claiming 100 percent truthfulness. However, this movie is still valuable since it brought up the topic of social network system to international wide. 
     The most realistic part of this documentary, as Mr. Garrioch said, would me Angela. She even came up in a TV show to talk about her doings. Angela first contacted Nev for the purpose of getting more connections. She wanted customers for her art work. And then, she found this young man attractive and started to develop relationship with him. She had given herself an imaginary persona called Megan Faccio and supported her new identity with photos she found and new 15 Facebook accounts, imaginary friends of Megan. She even had phone calls with a little change in her intonations. Her doings are, frankly said, creepy. 
      My topic of this critical response is somewhat related to what I wrote previously. I said that women's prevalence in social media does not mean that women will get more power in real life situations because many consider it trivial and even negative. Angela can be a good example of abuse of social network system. It is very true that social network system has made our lives more convenient. We do not have to worry about losing contacts with friends in the past and we can now inform about our lives to a greater number of people in a shorter time. However, there are also problems in social network system. 
     In the past, the most significant on-line problem was the malicious comments due to the anonymity. SNS naturally removed the problem since sharing personal informations is a very important part of it. However, the problem still exists and even developed into more complicated status. "No one cannot verify the identity of a person." Catfish reminded me a movie called '김씨 표류기' in Korean and 'Castaway on the moon'.

The woman and the man have separate stories but I would like to talk about the woman. This woman has a social disability due to  experiences at school. She does not get out of her room and her social life is limited on the social network system called 'Cyworld'. She also has inferiority in her face so she uses other pretty woman's pictures as hers. She has had popularity on-line but suddenly her popularity turns to numerous bad comments when people found out about her real identity. Later, she finds happiness from him and finally gets out of her room. 




Deceiving one's identity in SNS cannot be said to have intentions to harm others. However, people who built relationships with faked identity would feel deep disappointment and tend to disbelieve others on SNS. Although it might give a chance to live a different life for people with inferiority complex, I do not think it should be allowed to fake their identities in SNS.

 Debate Motions

1) THW strengthen the registering process of the SNS. 
2) THBT people who have deceitful accounts in SNS should be punished.