William Dameron's Article Analysis

The article displays a certain type of emotion from beginning to end. Sympathy. William Dameron was faced with the issue of his profile picture being used as catfish bait. He had received two messages from two different woman whom he had never spoken or seen before telling him about a catfisher who had used one of his photos. The picture the catfisher had used was one of William where his wedding ring was exposed and someone who William described as “the man who pretended to be another becomes the one others become to be.” The catfisher has stolen his picture but not his personality. He was listed as being 10 years younger, single, and athletic. William discovered his picture being used by many other men under the search result, “40 year old
I myself have never experienced it but have heard stories about others facing it. I was more interested in the part where he made a fake dating profile to find out if Paul reciprocated the same feelings towards him and the last parts where he found the reason why his photo was being used. When William made the profile to set up Paul, he was disappointed because Paul responded back with "still haven't found Mr. Right." He compared that to his past marriage where he said to have lived a "fake life." When he found the reason why his photo was stolen, he made up a theory or the "universe's poetic response" that "the man who pretended to be another become the one others become to be. Whenever we take a photo of ourselves, we try to make it as attractive as possible, meaning that it's not really us. It's not to say that we ourselves aren't attractive, it's that we perceive ourselves differently than how others
But the words did seem to give it away. Ethics that had to do specifically in technology or new technology. Technoethics is all around us, just like technology is. It’s the decisions we make and don't generally question our motives with "is this ethical?" We went over several different types of technoethic topics discussed today. The ones that would most relate to the article is Advertising/Marketing as well as Cybercrime. In advertising, there is clickbait which is defined as "providing just enough to peak curiosity, but not enough information without actually clicking the link." The photo that the catfishers were using was not necessarily false advertisement because they lied about the photo, but the personality and general information was about the catfisher themselves. As for cybercrime, using someone else's photo for the purpose of fooling someone into thinking you're that person, could be construed as identity theft. But just like with the clickbait, if they're only lying about he photo and not the actual personality, then it doesn't pose as a serious issue. Although, when William found the search results for his photo, they were all leading to different profiles. All of those people have different personalities. Someone who does not know who William is, will think that any of the other profiles are William or will never find out who the "Real" William