Article 1: Fake Facebook Accounts

This article doesn’t really affect me because I don’t have any social media accounts, so I wouldn’t be effected by the problem. But I can see how it can effect other people and how it could become dangerous. If one person is able to make one fake account, surely they would be able to make many. It allows the person to be able to manipulate the thoughts of others by making it seem that many people agree with the opinion. In our society, many people agree with majority because they don’t want to be on the side that looses or be different and be judged by other people. So if you were to create a post with your opinion and use the other fake accounts to ‘agree’ with your opinion, other people might start thinking that it’s a good idea. In this case, the posts are targeting Farrell. Fake accounts also need to steal images from the internet to make their profile seem real, so people will start thinking that it’s okay be a fake person but end up stealing images of real people to make their account ‘come to life’. I think that having fake account is also tied with impersonating someone on social media, which is also illegal. Many people think that it’s okay to impersonate their favourite celebrities or youtubers online, but in reality it’s actually illegal. So I think that in this world, people find it okay to be someone that they really aren’t and with technology today, many people can’t tell the difference between real and fake accounts.

Article 2: Fake “PLEASE REPOST SO I CAN FIND MY FAMILY!!!” Posts

Again, since I don’t have social media, I am unable to relate to this but I find it to be over dramatic. I think that people shouldn’t go to social media to find their family because people will end up thinking that it’s just for attention. Since there are so many posts like that circling around, it’s easy for people to just assume that they are all fake. I also think that for people who actually have missing family members don’t appreciate people who are faking it and making it seem like a big thing. If I were to have my little brother missing and then find all of these fake missing family posts, it would feel hurtful to see people whom are taking the situation lightly. I find most chain posts to be ridiculous as they’d be like “Repost or else spiders will invade your bedroom tonight”. I think that if you were to go online, most things that tell you to repost are ridiculous and are probably not worth it. Yet some people find it to be a big thing. So all the meaning less reposts probably outweigh the things that people repost to gain awareness. But at the same time, do you really want to take your problems to social media and have the whole world see it? Is it really worth it at the end?