Through years, people have seen the rapid growth of
social networks and if their attitude in the beginning was suspicious and
detached about this new communication instruments, now in 2013, 50% of world
population has a virtual account. But, there is a phenomenon that every day can
threaten you, your friends and everyone that uses the web to communicate. The danger
is called “False Account” and it is considered a joke or a stalking instrument.
Years ago, a false profile was the symbol of an unreal
identity or an stolen one, a trend for young people to entertain themselves on
MSN messenger, MySpace, Badoo, Netlog, and the early version of Facebook.
But sociologists and psychologists warned web surfers
about risks linked in creating a false profiles or being teased by false
wonderful blonde girls or muscular Baywatch boys.
Starting from the consideration that creating a false
profile and steal images of real people, information from the web is literally
ILLEGAL, the phenomenon has become unstoppable and hard to fight. To find out
if a person on the web is in reality another one is very simple: a manager of a
false profile will EVER search you for a chat; he will, every time, try to know
something new about yourself and your life and he will refuse every form of real
contact (calls, or a date); He will set a false place of birth and other
information will be of course false.
Someone prefers to use as personals images, photos
taken from the web and easily traceable on Google.
Flowers, panoramas and city screenshots are the most
used according to psychologists.
Simple! But the most important thing is to understand
why the phenomenon has grown.
Well… Everyone has once in his life managed or used for
a while a false account to play with someone, maybe a friend.
I have done it too! But joking is funny and harmless,
for other people it can be a weapon.
More than the risk of being confident with an unknown
person; pedophiles and cyber criminals are interested in getting something from
you!
I want to share the consideration about a new MTV’s show
called “Catfish: False identities”. A crew of specialists in communication will
search the real identity of false profiles managers on the web, and when the
impostor is find out, they will make some questions to understand why he has
managed (in some cases for years) a false profile. Someone, during the
interview, said that he made it to mask his sexual reference. Other people said:
“ I made it for fun” and some one else shown is interest in building a new
identity because his life was full of problems. A new trend, more powerful than
alcohol or drugs to escape from real life. And at last someone confessed that
his false profile was built to catch news of someone loved and never
approached.
Some cases have relations in the unconscious sphere of
the young impostors. Others are just a way of spending time. The show is
particularly original and made not only to study and unveil false identities,
but also to help those peoples to use internet in an healthy and solve their
problems.
If you are interested in study and see with your yes
examples of false identities and related consequences, spend one hour of your time
on Sunday afternoon in front the TV watching “Catfish: false identities”, on
MTV at 6:30 PM or http://ondemand.mtv.it/serie-tv/catfish-false-identita
For comments, questions or just sharing your
experience if had one about false identities, contact us!
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