Te'oing: Move over "Tebowing", there's a new Meme in town

[Tusk]

That may be true, but this went beyond that. I guess I'm amazed that in this day and age, someone his age and I'm assuming, maturity, would think that he could get away with the fabrications, the specificity of his fabrications, without anyone checking....

On top of that, retelling it over and over to the national media? Maybe he was almost right as it did get this far as it is.

He spoke of locking eyes after a football game, meeting her in Hawaii and being told "I love you" as her last words to him before she 'died' . There was no doubt Notre Dame and he got a lot of publicity and increased donation from his story of 'inspiration' that motivated him to lead the Irish to an undefeated season.

Curiosity had me watching an episode of MTV's show, Catfishing, which the term is based on. The girl in the episode, after being caught, said she had multiple fake facebook accts, and that she was basically addicted to being able to live multiple different lives through theses accts....

Then it occured to me this was actually an extension of the old RPG, or Role Playing Game, like Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), except your NPC's (non player characters) are your Facebook friends. In D&D, you create and live a fantasy life of adventure fighting monsters and demons, growing your experience and status. Technology has allowed people to extend this 'fantsasy' life into reality, unconcerned that the person on the other end, might believe that it's allreal....