My elderly parents recently received an iPad to read their newspaper and play their “fancy” games. Their new toy came with their first email address; a technology that is unknown to them even at a basic level and that the majority of us take for granted. A few nights after their email was created, my mother called me in a panic to tell me that a strange man from Africa had emailed her to say he loved her and was waiting his response. “What will your father think?” she exclaimed. It took me almost an hour to explain to him that internet scammers use this trick to extort money from people and they ignore it. One of his comments stayed with me long after the phone conversation ended: “Who would be stupid enough to trust someone who? My Schadenfreude-based curiosity held my attention, waiting for the false relationships to collapse once the participants were face to face, and fall apart. did. There is nothing online as far as the heart is concerned, and there is no way for two people to form a true, loving connection over an internet connection. To truly love a person is to be with them, in their space and in their world; online love will collapse under your life. The emotional carnage between the couple is what sells, not a successful, happy couple. Television programs such as MTV’s “Catfish” are a prime example of this (Smerling, 2012). The star of the series was the subject of a documentary based on the search for the woman with whom he believed he had a real, romantic relationship. His experience discovering that the woman he was in contact with had lied about who she was, where she lived, and even what she looked like, spawned an entire television series of the same name. Even the word “catfish” can now be formally defined as “a person who creates a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes.” (Merriam-Webster,