Online Deception

I think that it is completely unethical for people to lie about their appearance or other things about themselves in online profiles but I also think that people tend to lie more online than they do in person. There have been several famous cases where people have lied about who they are and things ended poorly. In the Megan Meir case, a young teenage girl was tricked into thinking that the mother of a classmate was a young attractive boy from a different school. The mother engaged Meir in a relationship and then later broke up with her. Meir had a history of depression and this incident dpcaused her grill herself. This cases highlights how someone was able to completely lie about who they are and cause massive problems. on the Internet there is no garuntee that people are who they say they areor exactly how they say they are. Studies have been conducted on the accuracy of on line dating profiles and the studies found that most people lied on at less one area of their profile. Because you may never meet these people and no one checks the accuracy, people are not held accountable for what they say.