Argumentative Essay On Internet Love

My elderly parents were recently given an iPad to read their newspaper and to play their “fancy” games. Along with their new toy came their first email address; a technology unknown to them even at the basic level that the majority of us take for granted. A few nights after their email was set up, my mother called me in a panic to tell me that some strange man from Africa emailed her to say that he loved her and was waiting for her reply. “What will your Father think?” she exclaimed. It took me close to an hour to explain to her that internet scammers use this trick to extort money from people, and to just ignore it. One of her comments stayed with me far after the phone conversation ended, “Who would be so stupid as to trust someone who

My schadenfreude based curiosity held my attention, waiting for the fake relationships to crumble once the participants were face to face, and crumble they did. There is nothing to be found online when it comes to the heart, and there is no way that two people can form a true and loving connection over an internet connection. To truly love a person is to be with them, in their space and in their world; online love will crumble beneath your

The emotional carnage between the couple is what sells, not a successful and happy couple. Television programs such as MTV’s “Catfish” is a prime example of this (Smerling , 2012). The star of the show was the subject of a documentary based around the search for the woman that he believed he was in an actual and loving relationship with. His experience in finding out that the woman he was in contact with had lied about who she was, where she lived, and even what she looked like, spawned an entire television series with the same name. Even the word “catfish” can now be formally defined as “a person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes.” (Merriam-Webster,