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Love means never having to “I’m sorry” and idealistically, the most important part of any relationship should always be honesty. Recently, I’ve been casually binge-watching MTV’s Catfish on Crave Canada . I’ve seen some of the show from time to time whenever it aired on MTV Canada however due to the pandemic and recent 2nd wave lockdown protocols, I’ve had some time to also watch episodes I’ve missed. Which brings me to why I’m writing this. It was after showing the “Jacqueline Linkwood aka: Tracey Barbie” episode to my parents that my father brought up something I never contemplated: IDENTITY THEFT ! Cambridge Dictionary’s definition of the word Con Artist is:  “a person who deceives other people by making them believe something false or making them give money away” As we all know social media offers nothing other than artificial relationships more often than not, with people we don’t even know and everyday, people are forming “intimate relationships” with those whom they’ve...

Written By: Kristen MacKenzie            Originally Written: 2016    Edited: 2021                                                    Guest Editor: Sarah Cipkar  Copyright: 2021    In Pew Research Center ’s Internet, Science & Technology article dated November 11, 2016, 79% of all internet users documented use Facebook. In a national survey conducted between March 7th - April 4th, 2016, a little over 1,500 adults aged 18 years and above across the U.S. discovered ‘Facebook continues to be America’s most popular social networking site’. Roughly 8-in-10 Americans use Facebook, double the number of those on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest or LinkedIn. Meanwhile, 62% of adults online aged 65+ also use Facebook. While Facebook remains popular, according to a January 2014 TIME ma...