My elderly parents were recently given an iPad to read the newspaper and play their “imaginative” games. Along with their new toy came their first email address; a technology unknown to them even at a basic level that most of us take for granted. A few nights after they set up their email, my mother called me in a panic to tell me that a strange African man had emailed her to say he loved her and was waiting for her response. “What will your father think?” he exclaimed. It took me almost an hour to explain to her that Internet scammers use this trick to extort money from people and to ignore it. One of his comments stuck with me long after the phone conversation ended: “Who would be stupid enough to trust anyone who? Done. There is nothing to be found online when it comes to the heart, and there is no way two people can form a true, 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 feet. What sells is the emotional carnage between the couple, not a happy, successful couple. Television programs such as MTV's “Catfish” are a great example of this (Smerling, 2012). The showbiz star was the subject of a documentary based on his search for the woman he believed he was in a real, loving relationship with. His experience discovering that the woman he was in contact with had lied about who she was, where she lived, and even what she looked like, gave rise to an entire television series of the same name. Even the word “catfish” can now be formally defined as “a person who creates a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes.” (Merriam-Webster,
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