The Manti Te'o Netflix Doc is About More Than Just CatfishingFrom the headline of this article at Men's Health.
上記の文で、catfishingの意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "catfishing" mean?
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解答
意味:英辞郎によると、
〈俗〉キャットフィッシング◆インターネットのソーシャルネットワーキングサービス(Facebook、Twitterなど)、または携帯電話を使って、自分の素性を隠して他人になりすまして、詐欺行為のターゲットとなる人とオンラインの人間関係を築くこと。とくに、男女関係で他人になりすます行為を言います。
また、catfishを動詞としても使用できます。
Answer
According to the Cambridge Dictionary:the practice of pretending on social media to be someone different, in order to trick or attract another person
Examples
- Is editing your profile pic to make yourself look better really so different from catfishing?
- If a random, attractive person starts talking to you online, you are very likely being catfished.
- On “The Circle,” contestants living in their own apartments talk to each other through a social media-like chat platform, with the goal of becoming the top influencer and sniffing out catfishes. LIONS, TIGERS, BEARS, LOVE? NETFLIX’S ‘SEXY BEASTS’ BAFFLES THE INTERNET.|ANNABEL AGUIAR|JUNE 24, 2021|WASHINGTON POST
- "They never actually met. She was an online thing. They'd been talking for over a year. We were all pretty sure she was catfishing him, but he was convinced she was legit and that they were in love." — R. L. Naquin
- "Heather" stopped messaging me abruptly several months after we started talking. She was a grown woman, and I never lied about how young I was. Even so, I've never been quite sure which one of us was being catfished. — Vanessa Vitiello Uruhart
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