In a world where it only takes seven seconds to make a first impression it is no wonder that people are almost obsessed with building a digital personal brand that looks inviting, friendly, happy, and likeable at a quick glance. Employers, friends, families and strangers all have access to social media making it imperative that people show best parts of themselves. Whether it’s by lying by omission or enhancing the truth or just lying in general, social media makes it easier and creates a need to lie like never before. In today’s society people are more dishonest than ever before.
In Ralph Keyes’ book, The Post-Truth Era, he talks about how we are living in a society that lies almost compulsively. Keyes writes, “The gap between truth and lies has shrunk to a sliver. Choosing which to tell is largely a matter of convenience,” .In today’s society lying has never been more convenient. Thanks to technology, like Photoshop, video editing softwares and social media platforms, spreading false information around has never been easier. The internet and technology …show more content…
In Leah Sottile’s article, The New Internet Honesty, she talks about how the hashtag #TBH on social media platforms has made honesty a new trend on the internet. Though in the article when she talks to her twelve-year-old niece about #TBH and how honest they actually are when using the hashtag, Sottile writes, “For people she doesn’t know well, it’s hard to be honest. ‘You just say, like, ‘you’re pretty and you seem nice,’ she says.” Even though this internet trend was supposed to promote honesty, most of the time the honesty is disingenuous and vague. If people were truly honest, they would be willing to say that they don’t know the person. All #TBH has done is create a way for people to show how “nice” they are or how mean they can be to get laughs out of their
In Ralph Keyes’ book, The Post-Truth Era, he talks about how we are living in a society that lies almost compulsively. Keyes writes, “The gap between truth and lies has shrunk to a sliver. Choosing which to tell is largely a matter of convenience,” .In today’s society lying has never been more convenient. Thanks to technology, like Photoshop, video editing softwares and social media platforms, spreading false information around has never been easier. The internet and technology …show more content…
In Leah Sottile’s article, The New Internet Honesty, she talks about how the hashtag #TBH on social media platforms has made honesty a new trend on the internet. Though in the article when she talks to her twelve-year-old niece about #TBH and how honest they actually are when using the hashtag, Sottile writes, “For people she doesn’t know well, it’s hard to be honest. ‘You just say, like, ‘you’re pretty and you seem nice,’ she says.” Even though this internet trend was supposed to promote honesty, most of the time the honesty is disingenuous and vague. If people were truly honest, they would be willing to say that they don’t know the person. All #TBH has done is create a way for people to show how “nice” they are or how mean they can be to get laughs out of their