By ROSIE WATERLAND
Guess what? People lie on the Internet.
I know.
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? Now, I don’t want to move too fast and freak you out, so I’m going to start small. Here I’ll list the main ways people lie on Facebook, and once you’ve had a few days to recover we’ll move on to Nigerian princes who want to give you $1 million and people who say they’re not interested in sex on Grindr.
Here we go – the top 6 ways people lie on Facebook:
1. To impress an ex
A skillful FB liar will enlist a friend to do the impressing here – posting about your own awesome life is for amateurs. For example, you stay home in a bed of tears listening to Nothing Compares 2 U on repeat, your bestie tags a photo at an awesome club with the status:
2. Your job description
You work as a receptionist at a tiling company. There’s nothing wrong with that. But on Facebook your job title is Forward Integration Strategist, because there’s nothing wrong with that either.
3. To cover up where you are
You tell that friend you can’t go out because you’re doing this:
But then that other friend you secretly did go out with tags you doing this:
4. Making your likes cooler than they are
You say you like this:
You actually like this:
5. Your profile pic
You know it’s true.
6. Linking to articles you haven’t actually read
According to Facebook, you’ve been reading this:
According to reality, you’ve been reading this:
Are you guilty of any of these Facebook lies? C’mon! We won’t tell…
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Top Comments
I have a FB friend who's created around 4 fake friend profiles which she uses regularly to post comments on her own page so it looks like her life is better than what it is. They all apparently go on holidays together, and one is actually 'famous'. She thinks she's fooling everyone except that she's really fooling no one. They're so ridiculously over the top and fake that I'm wondering how she thinks she's getting away with this. She posts photos of their 'amazing holidays and weekends away' which she's obviously lifted from google images and the photos these 'friends' tag her in are incredibly small and are really of models.
I'd delete her but it's too damn entertaining.
Oh and she's not a teenager. She's almost 30.
Oh my God! That is unbelievable!
Can't blame her really, she is just trying to keep up with facebook jones'.
I have just watched a documentary called "The Woman who wasn't there" about a woman who claimed she was a survivor of the 9/11 tower collapse. She was constantly in the media, she met the Mayor of NY, ran seminars and support groups for years, tours of the memorial site Finally, she became the President of the World Trade Centre Survivor Network. Then a journalist became suspicious and dug into her backstory and realised her whole story was a complete and utter lie. The injuries she had were from a car accident and her "husband" that she lost in the tower collapse never even existed. Fascinating documentary.
Confession: I don't lie on facebook. That seems totally weird.