Lying Is So Much Easier On The Conscience When You Don't Have To Look At Anyone
from the you-look-fat-in-that-dress dept
A new UK study suggests that technology not only makes lying easier, it allows liars to feel less guilty about doing it. More than four out of five people say they tell "little white lies" at least once a day, most preferring to do so via cell phone, text message or e-mail. Older studies proclaimed that people loved to lie over the phone, but weren't so keen on lying via e-mail (partially because people don't want a record of the lie). Obviously the lies being told are the same ones we've been telling for hundreds of years (I'm too sick to come to work, you look fine in that outfit, etc.) -- technology simply acts as an emotional firewall, allowing us to lie without having to look someone in the eye. Some think that's partially why videophones have never taken off, despite videophone technology that employs fake backgrounds to match the lie being told. Perhaps someday we can skip the whole messy affair and just have our sentient robot overlords lie for us.
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patents
i hold the patent for sentient overlord robots. if you want one to lie for you then you must pay me.
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no tells on the cell
I can't be the only one who can usually tell when people lie to me. Sometime I wont realise it till hours after a conversation but i can usually tell. I just think it's easy to lie convincingly on the phone verses in person.
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sore
i have herpes. this girl i picked up at the club lied to me and said she was clean. so much for that...
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#3 - Perhaps there are reasons for waiting until Marriage?
Wow - My parents were right. Go figure.
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#3
#3 - Perhaps you should repsect yourself more.
Wow - My parents were right. Go figure.
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that's the truth
Everybody lies all the time, even without realizing it. If we didn't lie, we'd probably implode.
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I do not!
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LIAR!!!!
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^^^^
liar
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lies
Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that! Everything Harry tells you is a lie!
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statistics
Now listen to me carefully, Norman laddie. I am lying!
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Truth
Its very possible that everything that we believe to be true is in fact a lie..so everyone who has ever told you anything may be lying without realizing it!
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I am lying to you right now -->
and somehow I don't feel that bad.
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0h man itz s0 t0talli true
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88 Olli
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Ifan verstehst du denn nicht - ich werde keine ruhe geben bis ich sie gesprochen habe - klar ....
mach es doch einfach kurz und gib mir ihre email - fertig - hehehe .
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hehehehe - why u do not answer Agnes? My new Mobil is :
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so pls answer me soon !!! We can change a lot of news ....hehehe kisss and miss u 88 Olli
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Hi I Fan - i found u ...i think we c us soon - i never will forget !!
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I hat people that don't tell people stuff face to face or not at all. This one girl gave me herpes and had no herpes symptoms she never bothered to tell me and I couldn't tell. So mean.
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