The distorting and worrying side of social media is what the project of the Dutch student Zilla van den Born portrays. The university student, aged 25, mislead everyone on social media, including her family and friends, into thinking that she was travelling through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, while she was still at home with her boyfriend. The student made this believable by photo-shopping pictures of exotic food and tourist attractions from the internet with photographs of herself in her apartment and at the local swimming pool, she also used the social networking application called Skype to video call her friends and family in front of fake backgrounds in order to convince them that she was in Asia. She said “My goal was to prove how common
