(Name Here) Is a Liar and a Cheat

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/fashion/thursdaystyles/16WEB.html?_r=1

This article is about women creating websites and posting about men who have lied and cheated on them.  By doing this, women want to warn other women to not date those particular guys who are nothing but just liars.  The author’s purpose of this article is to let us readers know and beware of what is going on the real world, that is now can be found online.  If a woman does not trust the man she is talking to or does not know enough about him, which he is not telling her, she can look him up anytime online.  Alvarez points out that these websites has been sometimes helpful and amusing, but it has also enraged men who were either guilty or not.  The men in this situation has sent email messages or made phone calls to have their names and photographs taken down.  It is said that these websites are biased and damaging if the story was not true.  The author obtains her information from the website creators themselves by interviews.  I found this article really useful because it gives women the chance to voice what they have to say through social media.  In the old days, women were not allowed to do anything if men lied or cheated on her.  Thanks to social media and the Internet, women can reveal these horrible men and prevent such problems from happening again.