Week of October 29 - November 4

3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading this week, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.

One concept that I found interesting is the concept of gender swapping. According to the text gender swapping is when people identify and portray themselves as a person of the opposite sex in their electronic conversations and in chat rooms, instant messages, and email. Lets ask ourselves why a person would do such a thing. Maybe a person wanted to be deceitful for reasons such as trying be someone they are not. For example you see this a lot in bullying. People portray themselves as boy or girl and try and lure the unpopular, unattractive girl just to get a rise out of this. It is sad but true. Now according to the text Samp, Wittenberg and Gillet conducted a survey and of the 823 respondents 233 indicated that they do indeed do something like this. They also add that 370 of the 823 respondents said they suspected and questioned the sex of another online participant. This reminds me of an ex girlfriend of mine, who I found out used Myspace to create a fake profile. She created a profile of a guy that was asking for weight training advice. She knew that I have my certificate as a trainer as was looking for new clientele. She went as far as to say she was from New Mexico and he was looking to relocate and was interested in finding a new gym. This girl had done her homework she asked all the questions that prospective client would ask but what gave her away is one day she said she was busy today and had to pick up kids from the local school. After that I asked questions like when did he get into town and etc.After that I never heard from "Mark".