....Catfish.....

Modern day technology is amazing. And what we're able to do with it is even more amazing. Websites out now days can be so helpful in so many ways...but they can also be very harmful and dangerous. I'm sure the owners of these different websites didn't make them for creeps to do their 'thang' on it but the creeps doanyway....and it's quite scary. =/ 

I was one of those that had a Myspace, Bebo, and yes even a Facebook. They're not bad at all, in fact their great websites. I've found old friends from high school and even elementary, and I love that I'm able to keep in contact with them through the internet. I've been able to stay in contact with family I never would've stayed in contact with if it weren't for these particular websites. I've also been able to maintain a good relationship with new friends I've met...and it's great. 

But

....unfortunately....

everything has it's downfall....or catch I guess. 

....Once upon a time....

lol

A few years back when I had a Myspace I got a weird email from some random lady that said that her cousin had 'stolen my identity'.

LOL right??

 stolen my identity....what the heck does that mean, is what was going through my head. haha

Well I did laugh at first and didn't really take it serious. She then emailed me again,sounding more concerned saying that her cousin had taken all my pictures 

(because at the time I didn't know anything about the privacy code and it would've never crossed my mind that anyone would be so freakish to do that)

and made a whole new profile on blackplanet (google that, at the time I didn't even know what blackplanet was).

She told me that her cousin (who was almost 30 w/3 kids) had done this before and got busted. After a while she picked it up again but was using my pictures to make her profile on blackplanet.

She continued to tell me that this needed to end and since I was the first poly girl that she's taken identity of, that maybe this'll put a stop to it for sure because it's not fair to me and not fair to the guys she's lying to. 

Guys?? what guys right?

She told me that she had (well I guess, I had lol) all these boyfriends online and stuff and she was using them to send her money. 

FREAK-A-ZOID

She then gave me her URL to the site on blackplanet. I of course was curious and had to check it out to see what she was talking about. And to my amazement- there I was.

Online.

Under a different name.

All my pictures.

All my boyfriends LOL

Scary huh?

Well I froze and didn't really know how to react. I thought about it and then emailed the girl that was doing all this. I simply just explained to her that I knew everything. Gave her her own URL to blackplanet and then asked her to please stop. And if she wouldn't, my cousin, that lived in the same neighborhood as her in Hawaii would have to handle things. Lol.

She then apologized and erased it. Hopefully it stopped there =/

{thank goodness the Miss Utah Organization encouraged that all contestants erase both Myspace and Bebo, who would've known what else would have happen?? My goodness}

Now, ever since then I haven't heard anything and nothing has happened. 

(which i am thankful for)

 But that didn't last long, if it wasn't one thing, it's another.

 

I had dated this guy that all these girls where he was from and going to school with were just crazy about. 

and when I say crazy...i mean craaaaazzzyyy. 

There had been one girl though in particular who had constantly emailed me on facebook about leaving him alone and letting her have a chance with him. Once again I was like

FREAK-A-ZOID.

who seriously emails someone that? lol

He put a stop to her emailing cause I told him I was going to fly down to Arizona and kick her gay ess ess.lol

Anyway, as time went on, him and I didn't work out, we took a break, and were just friends again.

(story of my life lol)

This time around, some guy by the name of 

'something Fa'amausili'

(i really don't remember what he went by)

requested me to be his friend. Now, I know a lot of Fa'amausilis. In fact, I'm actually related to some so I thought, 'okay I'll accept this person, maybe he's my long lost cousin.'

So I accepted him. And then he asked me if I was single. I told him No and that I was dating someone, but I didn't tell him his name. 

He then told me all these bad things about this guy (the one all the girls are crazy about). 

Funny thing was...I wasn't even dating the guy he was referring to. Luckily I had known all these things that he was telling me before he actually told me.
Long story short, the Fa'amausili guy was referring to was the guy that this girl was emailing me about a few months before. He then told me that I should leave him alone and blah blah blah. 

I then asked him who he's related to because I knew lots of Fa'amausilis...and then told him that I wasn't even dating who he was talking about. lol... moded?? YES.

then he deleted me. haha

I then found out 

(from the guy he was referring to....confusing..i know sorry) 

that that was a made up account by the same girl that had emailed me prior. 

FREAK-A-ZOIDS

i swear. 

Well....it didn't end there, it actually gets better. haha

Not too long ago, my mother had received an email from an anonymous lady on facebook who was telling her all these things about me and Shawn. And from the way of things she said and how she said it, it was someone that knows my family and Shawns family very well. She was an older lady who claimed she had daughters that knew Shawn, and had all this fun nice stuff to say about him. lol... 

She claimed she was an older lady, but the funniest thing is when she would email she sounded like a fob at times and then sounded like she was full on born and raised in the U.S. haha.

And when my mom would speak tongan to her via email...she didn't answer once back in tongan. It was crazy. I wonder if she even understood what my mom was saying in tongan. ;)

Anyhow....that all ended. 

But it was such nonsense. I was like really? Do people really have nothing better to do than to sit back and observe others lives?? I mean, I know have issues but isn't up to me how I deal with it? sheeeeshh... shoot me already. I SWEAR my life is NOT interesting at all, you can tell by my blog. lol

Thank goodness that's all over. After that whole incident, I felt bad for whoever it was hiding behind the screen. Mind you, she had no profile picture. No friends. and quite honestly I think she had NO "daughters" lol.

Lastly...

my cousin had text me early one Sunday about a month ago asking me if I knew a 

'something Maile'

I told him No why? 

He then told me that there was this girl that had taken my pictures off of my facebook and made a profile using them. Can you imagine what I was thinking?

again? FREEEAAAK... seriously how many times!? 

You would've thought I learned the first time to set my settings as full on PRIVATE but it didn't occur to me that people would still do that.

Well, I ended up finding her on facebook. I don't even remember what name she used but I remembered she used the last name Maile. She was out of New Zealand (so she claims).

I couldn't really do anything. It was to the point where I just 

did. not. care. 

I mean I'm hoping she's not doing anything crazy... but I figured

Hey, if that boosts someones confidence to steal someone else's pictures and make a new profile... hey go for it. haha.

People are just so weird. I had told one of my friends about all this and she told me to watch the movie

'Catfish' 

so I rented it on iTunes one night. 

 One word: Creepy 

It's a real movie about the internets social network. It's about someone stealing someone elses pictures and using it to establish a relationship on facebook. Definitely on the lines of unbelievable and believable. In conclusion of the movie one of the male characters explains that Catfish were used to exercise cod fish as they were shipped on long journeys. This kept their flesh fresh and stopped them becoming tasteless. We need enigmatic, metaphorical Catfish in our lives, to 

“keep us on our toes” 

and give life spicy variety. 

So thanks to all those Catfish in my life that keep me on my toes.... eeehhh!

*SIGH*

Okay,  I just had to get that all out.I'm done now. ;)