Blog 10- Humans are Cyborgs

   Amber Case discusses in her Ted talk how we are all cyborgs. She talks about how we have two selves we must represent in life. We have our real human self and then the self we portray for us online. We portray ourselves the way we want to be seen on the internet. One way people portray themselves is by lying to others online. They might create fake profiles or provide fake pictures or fake information to someone they are talking to. While most people, like myself, are somewhat honest online, our online personality is an extension of ourselves. Case says that we have created our own kind of wormhole by being able to speak in a device and our voices can be heard across the country or the world. 

   In my podcast regarding Catfishing on creating fake profiles, I discuss how easily the people can manipulate others to believe that they are someone else. The internet is basically a blank piece a paper and anything can be written on it and no one would challenge the person or say that they were lying. I could say I some guy that's in his 30's and no one would think I'm lying because they have no reason too. I agree with Case when she says that our online personality is an extension of ourselves but some people take it too far. They lie to others or they scam the victims  giving them money. Whatever the reasoning is behind lying to someone on the internet, it is not OK.