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A/S/L? 20/F/California here.

Haha just kidding. Like the information contained in one third of New York dating profiles, that was a complete lie. According to a new study, a lot of us are chronic embellishers here on the web.

The study, conducted by dating auction site What's Your Price, found that New York is the third least honest city when it comes to online dating profiles, with 34 percent of New Yorkers fudging facts about traits like their appearance, career, age and education. Men frequently lie about their height and build, but some also apparently try to mask their more illegal hobbies.

"Another guy told me he didn't smoke, but he had weed growing in his back yard in Long Island," one woman told amNewYork.

Unlike people who try to be someone completely different on shows like Catfish, online daters frequently tweak their profiles so that they're full of half-truths, using real pictures of themselves but then lying about specific details like their salary.

The study also found the cities with the most truthful profiles: Houston, Phoenix, Boston, Charlotte and Minneapolis top the list, so they might be good places to start looking for a relationship. But then you'd have to leave New York, and who would ever want to do that?

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Catfish, we'd argue, is actually one of the best shows on TV right now. It's not as highbrow as Homeland and it's probably largely staged, but MTV's attempt to turn the award-winning documentary into a reality TV show series has never once disappointed us in the OMGWTF department.

The show, which arranges for people with longtime Internet relationships to finally meet face to face, inevitably revealing the complex nest of lies they've told each other, is entertainment in the purest sense: Viewers can't help but watch with a sense of horror and fascination as people humiliate themselves--and then are redeemed!--right on the screen.

But what makes Catfish most compelling is that almost everyone in our day and age has entertained a relationship with someone they've met online, whether romantic or otherwise. Catfish allows for a sense of "OMG that could happen to me," which is equal parts horrifying and exciting. And now, those of you with weird Internet friends can apply to be on season two of the MTV show.

MTV tweeted a link to a WuFoo form where users can apply to appear on the show. "This is legit, ppl," the network promises. The form asks some important questions like "Have you ever SEEN the person on videochat?" (we're guessing you'd have to check "No" on that one in order to be considered) and "Do you have a secret or something to confess to your online partner?"

This is your chance to come clean, you guys. Wonder if Manti Te'o will apply (heh heh).

(h/t Lindsey Weber)

Calling all catfish.

"Has someone fallen for your online alter-ego?" MTV is casting for a reality show in the vein of the possibly fake hit documentary Catfish, in which a young filmmaker falls in love with his dream girl, Megan, on Facebook, only to find he was talking to the woman Megan had said was her mother. MTV is producing the show with the producers of Catfish, including the duped Nev Schulman, and RelativityREAL.

After the movie, Mr. Schulman said he got loads of emails from people who were in his situation and the situation of his lying, fake Internet girlfriend, a middle-aged woman who may have multiple personalities. It starts with using an OKCupid photo from a few years ago, when you were a bit skinnier. Then you started using a picture of Shannyn Sossamon with an Instagram filter. It happens!

"If you’re in a relationship with someone that exists online, and you want to meet then, but need help because you are keeping a secret from them , Catfish is looking for you," says the casting call. "Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace, the show is looking to bring people together and meet face to face for the first time."

"If you're currently in an online relationship and for whatever reason have created an online alter-ego and developed a relationship with someone using that identity, I want to hear your story and I want to help you tell it," Mr. Schulman says in a video casting call. Same goes for your friends.