Catfish, anyone?

In case you missed it (and it you did, you live in a cave) Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te’o recently got himself in a whole lot of hot water after he received sympathy and attention by announcing that his girlfriend had died. When reporters later discovered that the girlfriend had never existed, Te’o claimed he’d been “catfished”, and that the girl was someone he’d met, and fell in love with, without ever actually seeing in person. The entire relationship was over the Internet.

Catfishing is a relatively new term, and basically means creating a fake online personality in or...