Nev: The Personification of Loyalty

I've (hopefully) never been Catfished before, but I can say that based on what I have seen from this documentary and various episodes of the Catfish TV show, that it takes some SERIOUS dedication to Catfish someone. What I mean by this is that it is a seemingly never-ending series of lies: before you take something back, you have to add more to the story (habitual lying). This is exactly what Angela Wesselman set out to do: she created 15 (I think) fake profiles on Facebook to make it seem like she had people that socialized with her, which deceived Nev. She found pictures of a supermodel by the name of Aimee Gonzales and used these pics to trick Nev into thinking that Aimee was a girl named "Megan Faccio." I watched a video that was made later on which featured Nev and Aimee: Nev had told Aimee the whole story about how her pictures were used by Angela to create the "Megan" profile. Nev and "Megan" had been carrying on a relationship for months via text messages and phone calls. Some of the messages that "Megan" sent to Nev were quite disturbing: Angela really made Nev fall in love with someone who didn't even exist.

Because Nev had so much sympathy for Angela and her situation (having sons with disabilities), he remained loyal to Angela even after it was revealed that she was the person behind "Megan Faccio" all along. Nev, in my opinion, is a very nice guy who didn't deserve to be deceived in the way that he did. The more lies that Angela kept telling Nev, the less sympathetic I felt for her. While she was in an unfortunate situation, what she did was still WRONG. She could've tried other solutions to relieve the stress that she was carrying: creating the Megan Faccio fake profile with a picture of a girl she didn't even know to trick Nev into liking Megan, then revealing that she was the one behind it is very sickening. To add on, she is MARRIED! Her husband is also a victim of this. I feel more sympathy for Nev than I do for Angela because he went to great lengths to find Megan and Abby, Angela's 8 year old daughter who Nev thought was an amazing painter (Abby was confused when he mentioned the paintings to her, the paintings were actually Angela's). He traveled hundreds of miles to addresses that Angela kept giving him, in hopes to find out more about "Megan," only to find himself wrapped up in a bunch of lies.