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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1393901
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1393901
They left out the front door as a means of communication.
“Go away, I’m not home!!!”
All text-based media allow for more dishonesty. You can’t read tone or body language, so all of the non-verbal cues to catch someone in a lie are stripped away, and we all quickly figure that out.
So yes, people lie more in all forms of text. More forms of text, more lies. It’s not because of the media, it’s because humanity lies, we’re just generally not great at getting away with it in person.
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If you’re a Republican, then yes.
No lie…
I know TFG sure did. Hit the ball right outta the park.
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Technology has been dumbed down by the likes of Microsoft and Facebook, etc., which makes people more prone to lying because they are using “bells-and-whistles” technology instead of, you know, REAL technology, and they try to cope with what they think is “the latest and greatest”.
Websites are more eye candy than information systems. When I can type faster than my laptop can accept input, I know how far we have fallen from what we imagined mere decades ago.
Information should be flying to users at the speed of light. Instead, we have to sit and wait for web pages to load because they are graphic-intensive instead of information-intensive.
We are far short of the ideals that led to personal computers in the first place. And there seems to be no end in sight. The latest Windows 11 OS is just another shifting around of GUI elements instead of actual progress.
99% of all children lie to their parents.
100% of parents lie to their children.
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No, people are just letting everyone know they’ve always been lying bastards.
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When you can type faster than your laptop can accept input, it’s time for a new laptop, because yours doesn’t have the memory to run all the software you’re running.
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Are People Lying More Since The Rise Of Social Media And Smartphones?
Not really. They are lying more since the rise of Trump, the penultimate liar-in-chief, and all his lying minions.
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No. I’m taking about web pages that accept input and do immediate searches based on what you type. It usually takes seconds for input to be registered, sent across to the server, results fetched and displayed. It’s even worse when data is stored on a cloud server.
Admittedly, this can sometimes be extremely useful. But we have become resigned to information crawling back to us. The Internet is more bells and whistles rather than an information processing system. More and more eye candy in the form of Facebook, etc. and people no longer care about data. From there, it’s an easy step to seeing social interactions as more important than anything else, and then it’s easy to fall into the trap of embracing, or spreading, lies.
Liars always lied… constantly … to your face, over the phone, in print.
Look at Trump - he was a relentless pathological liar in the 1960s, the 1970s, 1980s
… all accomplished without social media.
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Lying has been around forever and a huge part of the human expeience.T he rise of disingenuous scumbags like Joe Mc Carthy, Nixon,Trum p,Goebbles went a long way to the " normalcy" that seems to have taken hold. Now ,with the advent of technology where you don’t have to look anybody in the eye or speak directly to them,it’s easier to pretend to adhere to morals and principles.
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We lie all day long. Most of the lies are “white” in that they do no harm.
They are the grease of social interaction: “I like your dress”. “Nice presentation”.
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