Social media has made it so that you can communicate with a really wide range of people, and for the most part that has ended up doing quite a bit of good in the world. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that this ease of communication might just be resulting in a lot more people lying according to a series of studies conducted by a wide range of social psychologists and the like.
The thing is, these lies might not even be all that serious. They might be small, meaningless lies about you going out when you are just staying at home perhaps because you would want to avoid talking to someone or the other. Plenty of people say that they are going to sleep when they are going to continue using social media in a relatively low key manner.
The research involved analyzing conversations conducted in 2004 and ones that were conducted somewhat more recently in order to see if there were any kinds of falsehoods that were being uttered with all things having been considered and taken into account. Social media interactions tend to feature the most lies due to the reason that we often see them as remote and not exactly real, whereas emails featured the least amount of lies because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up impacting your work performance as workplaces are where emails end up getting used most often.
It might just be the frequency with which we communicate these days as well as the constant interconnectedness that results in people veiling the truth so that they can avoid awkward conversations. Regardless, this has the potential to really speak to the kind of impact that social media is having on the manner in which we behave.
Via: TC.
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The thing is, these lies might not even be all that serious. They might be small, meaningless lies about you going out when you are just staying at home perhaps because you would want to avoid talking to someone or the other. Plenty of people say that they are going to sleep when they are going to continue using social media in a relatively low key manner.
The research involved analyzing conversations conducted in 2004 and ones that were conducted somewhat more recently in order to see if there were any kinds of falsehoods that were being uttered with all things having been considered and taken into account. Social media interactions tend to feature the most lies due to the reason that we often see them as remote and not exactly real, whereas emails featured the least amount of lies because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up impacting your work performance as workplaces are where emails end up getting used most often.
It might just be the frequency with which we communicate these days as well as the constant interconnectedness that results in people veiling the truth so that they can avoid awkward conversations. Regardless, this has the potential to really speak to the kind of impact that social media is having on the manner in which we behave.
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