'Catfish' shows a true story of social networking

A new movie that just came out called 'Catfish' takes a real look into the other side of social networking.

"The documentary by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost is both disturbing and rewarding, as we watch the filmmakers go down the rabbit hole of social networking to try to separate truth from fiction.

The film follows Ariel's younger brother Nev, a handsome and polite 24-year-old New Yorker who takes photos of dance companies for a living. One day, Nev gets a package in the mail. It's a painting of one of his photos that appeared in the newspaper, along with a brief fan letter from an 8-year-old girl in Michigan named Abby.

Tickled, Nev starts up a pen-pal correspondence with Abby via e-mail, and she sends him more paintings of his work. Eventually, Nev starts communicating via phone and Facebook with Abby's mother, Angela, and Abby's 19-year-old half-sister, Megan.

While the back and forth between Nev and Abby, and Nev and Angela, is innocent and friendly, Nev starts to become more and more attracted to the lovely Megan, and they start flirting via text message, phone and e-mail. Nev starts to seriously consider trying to meet with Megan in person, even though he's a little troubled by one thing.

One night, she sends him an MP3 file of an acoustic song she claims that she wrote and sang about him, even though he's able to find via Google that it appeared on the "One Tree Hill" soundtrack. It's probably nothing, right? Everybody embellishes their online persona. Are all your status updates 100 percent accurate?" (Thomas)

This movie is very intriguing to me. It has come out the same week as 'Social Network' but this movie is the darker side and the suspicious side of it all. I am definitely looking forward to seeing this movie and seeing what happens.

I have also looking at reviews of it and alot of them are saying that this movie is better then social network and its actually better to not know anything about the movie before you go see it.

http://host.madison.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/article_7cf7a652-cbe0-11df-bb03-001cc4c03286.html

This is the full article where I got that summary from.