Comment by juiceandjuice | Hacker News Reader

Comment by juiceandjuice | Hacker News Reader

Are all Dvorak's friends on facebook pre-teen girls? It's probably worse than that, they are probably 'writers'

The fake people on facebook, at least on MY facebook, are the people that are fake in real life. Yes, it is easier for them to broadcast how fake they are. Luckily facebook also makes it easy to filter out their broadcasts. It's also much easier for the friends I care about to broadcast important information as well. For those of us without a media site/platform to broadcast our cra... err articles, facebook works great.

Also, I never get along with WoW addicts.

You may be underestimating how many small bits of 'fake' are common. A facebook profile is much more accurately described as "how someone wants themselves to be seen" rather than how they are in reality. Some of it is self-censorship, some is self-promotion, some is subconscious, but the cumulative effect is such that the reality show analogy is quite apt; it's based on real events, but edited and filtered into something misleading.

Think about it this way, an autobiography is probably mostly true, but you're going to read it with the understanding that it's not an impartial, objective viewpoint.

"Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from inside is simply a series of defeats."

         -- George Orwell

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