Essay On Catfish

The popular MTV show Catfish is based on online relationships of people that have never met in person and are looking for love while also exposing the fakes, and exploiting people’s lives The MTV show Catfish has made its mark in personal invasion and evasion of people’s lives. The show deters some people from following their hearts due to fakes, while on the other hand it helps people find their love by taking advantage of the new age of social media and technology. The show Catfish has saved many people’s lives and wellbeing due to the amount of in depth research like background checks, reverse email searches, and social media confirmation they perform on each person that is on their show. Catfish is a show that leaves the audience guessing because of the uncertainty of each situation of each person. The show Catfish is filled with surprises and has had the same plot since it started and I believe it should stay that way. Because people like to see other peoples lives and relationships making Catfish a popular show. Because of its exploitation and insight into other peoples lives The TV show Catfish has crawled its way up on MTV to be one of the most popular shows on MTV’s list of TV shows. …show more content…
This is a low budget TV show about two guys that travel around the country trying to help numerous people meet their partner that they have been talking to on online dating sites. These people that the show Catfish help usually are lost or searching for love and dont know their partner or that person they are talking to online other than a few photos and their profile having short description to prove that they are real. Catfish emphasizes that a virtual relationship online can be dangerous because a person never knows exactly who they’re talking to. There have been episodes on Catfish that one of the people The show Catfish interviews ends up being a completely different gender person. Connecting strangers to strangers Catfish helps these people find comfort in their personal social dating life because some people just need that extra push. Another reason the TV show Catfish is so popular is the base’s of the show and that is helping people find love. Most reality shows on TV now grab audience’s attention by exploiting people’s love life. Catfish shows the inner dangers of looking for love and with so many shows that help with this there are often lies in the road that people stumble on looking for love. Traveling from coast to coast the show Catfish assists people that are talking to someone in an online dating site for some time and really loving this person or having deep feelings for them. Catfish helps these people figure out if they are talking to someone that is posing as someone else or is completely fake all together, in other words being Catfished. On the other hand, the show Catfish allows couples to meet for the first time allowing them to meet in person for whether its miles away or around the corner. Even though most of the time on Catfish, the people end up being fake, there are some that are real, and those are what drive this show. Most people on this show Catfish are looking for love whether it be fake or not. This is how this show stays afloat by exploiting people’s emotions and personal lives. The biggest thing about the show Catfish is the high number of fake profiles and identities that are exposed by this show. Like a situation I had when I was about seventeen I met this amazing girl online and really started to like her. After a few months of talking, we finally decided to meet in person and me being excited about this I quickly arrange something and tell her we can at the movies. Later that evening I drive to the movie theater we decided to meet at and waited awhile for this girl, and then I get a random message on Facebook that says my pictures on my Facebook aren’t of me. I look at the message for a little