Blog post 4

Soo Young Lee

CAS 283

Dr. Stec

3/4/2016

Blog post #4 – Catfishing

            Have you ever catfished online? A catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they’re not using Facebook or social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances, according to Urban Dictionary. I find it very interesting since it is related to a Korean drama “She was pretty.” Being a sophomore in a college, I have realized that friendship in college doesn’t do any good in my life and it just makes me so stressed. I had such hard time getting over my stresses about getting along with people here; however, this drama saved my life and helped me to get through the semester. It was very fun and “exciting” to watch the whole episodes. It might be a little off topic because the “catfishing” is happening in FTF communication and it was not for intended purpose of catfishing (pursuing deceptive online romances.) But still, I thought this might be fun to write.

 First Impression of She Was Pretty, in this article, the author gives a brief summary of the drama. This drama is a story about a girl who is insecure about herself, her first love, and her best friend. The main character Hye Jin, she was very pretty when she was young so that everyone liked her and stuff. And her first love was the man named Sung Joon, who was very chubby and not very outgoing when he was young. Sung Joon went to America to study. They kept in touch for a while by a mail, but for some reason, they didn't contact at all for like 10 years. Hye Jin was very pretty like I said above, but she became ugly; however, Sung Joon became so hot in 10 years. 

One day, Hye Jin got an email from Sung Joon, saying he is coming back to Korea for his job. She was so happy about she's meeting her first love in forever. On the day they were supposed to meet at the park, HJ saw SJ first and she suddenly realized that she has changed too much and afraid of him looking her in a weird look. So HJ asked her best friend Hari, who is a definitely hottie. Hari fell in love with Sung Joon, and she kept acting like she is Hye Jin even though she knows that she should not do that to her best friend. 

Hari's deception kept going on and ended up disclosed (not self-disclosure) by him and he got so mad about it. So my point is that there are definitely a lot of people deceive people either online or offline, trying to be someone who is not actually they are or even who doesn't exist for many bad reasons. We should stop the deception that is totally abused! 

References:

http://couch-kimchi.com/2015/09/21/first-impressions-and-thoughts-on-she-was-pretty/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/catfishing-the-truth-about-deception-online/