Catfish commentary

Catfish Commentary:
Nev Schulman a young man that lives in an apartment with two friends, one of which is his brother. Both friends are film makers - when they become interested in the friendship that is being built between Nev and Abby they begin to record the events. Nev then began to speak to the mother of Abby, Angela to confirm the artwork he was sending to Abby. Nev then began to communicate with the older sister Megan. This relationship grows as he still gets sent parcels of Abby's drawings. Nev begins to receive emails over the Web 2.0 tool Facebook about Megan. Nev sends a letter to the supposed house address of Megan. Nev the receives a song from Megan, that is meant to be her however when he searches for it on YouTube he finds the song and realises its not real, therefore he questions what he really knows about this family. Nev and his two friends decide to head down to Michigan in search of the truth, firstly they visit the farmhouse where he had been sending the postcards to Megan although when he gets there she is not there. He then heads to Angela's house where he meets Abby the daughter, whilst the mother tries to reach Megan via phone call, she says she got through to her and she will be down soon. Whilst all this is going on Nev knows the truth. He asked who the artist was and one of the children said there mum draws the portraits of Nev not Abby. Nev begins to text Megan and notices that Angela looks at her phone when he does so, the three lads assume that all the Facebook accounts are fake. Nev decides to approach the mother on the issue and she admits the whole thing that Megan does exist just that she was portraying her whilst she was in a rehab centre. She also admits to many other fake accounts and personalities. At the end of this movie the ending credits say that the rehab centre does not have a Megan in its care, this would suggest she doesn't exist and she lied again.

This highlights the major floor in the current Web 2.0 tools in this case it's Facebook, the fact that it is extremely easy to set up a fake account and pose as another person. Many people fall for this due to what they see a prof because of pictures names etc. although they beer really know who they are talking too.