HBO has been airing a documentary named "Catfish."
It's about a good looking young Jewish guy who meets a girl on Facebook. Let's call the guy J.G.
The girl's photo shows a pouty lipped blond girl who has a bunch of hip, cool friends and a niece who is nine years old and is a talented painter.
The Facebook girl says she has a stable and horses and an active social life.
Finally the guy, J.G. gets her phone number and he falls in love with her voice and her Facebook photo. Nine months pass, months of passionate calls and messages pass between them and the girl sends him a recording she says is of a song she wrote and recorded. However, J.G's brother says he knows the person who wrote and recorded that song and it ain't Facebook girl.

J.G.'s brother, a film maker says I wonder what else she is lying about? He starts filming and the brothers decide to actually go where Facebook girl lives and check her out. They drive 400 miles and find the stables boarded up and for sale. Another lie she has told.

Next day they arrive at Facebook girl's address and guess what? Facebook girl turns out to be a fat middle aged unattractive woman, married, with two severely mentally retarded sons living in the house. There is also a daughter about eight or nine there. Her husband she has told that J.G. Is sending money for artworks and apparently he swallowed that lie. The woman spent hours at night telling J.G. preposterous stories about an exciting life and friends that never existed.

The painter turns out to be the fat woman, who has lied about the painter being a child, lied about everything. She even told J.G. she had cancer, trying to wring sympathy from him.
But J.G. is in love with the photo--turns out the fat woman has found the photo somewhere and copped it to be her. The Facebook photo was of a model who is married with two kids.
He asks fat lady to talk in the voice he has come to love, and she does. It was pitiful to see how much he had been lied to but still, loving that voice.

It just goes to show you can purport to be anyone on the Internet and people will believe you, will believe all kinds of lies, and hurt nice guys like J.G.

susil