"(Name Here) Is a Liar and a Cheat" by: Lizette Alvarez

 

Alvarez, Lizette. (2006, February 16). (Name Here) Is a Liar and a Cheat. The New York Times, pg. 31-32. 

   In my Psychology Class, my Professor gave us this article as an assignment, and I thought this would be a good post for my blog for this assignment in this class. To start off, this article is about women creating websites and posting about men who have lied and cheated behind their backs. By doing this, these women want to warn other women to not date those particular guys who are just liars. I believe the author's purpose of this article is just to let us readers know and beware of what's going on in the real world that is now can be found online! If a woman does not trust the man she is with or does not know enough about him, and he is not telling her, then what better way to know than to look him up online! However, Alvarez points out that these websites has been sometimes helpful and amusing, but it has also enraged men who were either guilty or not. These men has sent email messages or made phone calls to have their names and photographs taken down. They say that these websites are biased and damaging if the story was not true. Alvarez obtains her information from the website creators themselves by interviews. The usefulness of this article is that it helps women has a voice through the social media. Back then, women couldn't do anything if a men lied or cheated on her. Now that there is social media and the internet, women can expose these horrible men and prevent such problems from happening again. 

Here is the link to the article.