Why do people lie on the internet?

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Okay I know this is a pretty pointless thread. But why do people do it?

GD doesn't actually seem full of this, but some of the other areas do.

What do they have to gain, it's simple to see when people are talking through their bottoms.

I can half understand that the "internet" and forums are an escape from reality for certain people but why lie on it? No one really cares, no one is going bump uglies with you because you have some new CPU?

In real life I can half get lying. It's an attempt to one up your friends or get a girl by telling her your a millionaire or something. But lying on the web? What is the point?

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Dstat
 
You can be who you want on the internet. Like a dream world really. I could happily go on and on about my career as a professional stunt man at the age of 21 but as with every lie, you do get caught out.

It's normally 'e-penis'.
 
I was discussing this exact thing last night while having tea with my good friend the Queen.
 
deuse said:
So it was you I was sitting next to.
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You're a queen?

Lying on the internet has always seemed like a bit of a pointless activity to me but then again if it makes people feel better about their lives in some way I can't say it bothers me that much, they presumably need the ego boost far more than I need to know the truth of what they own/have done etc. I always try to ensure that what I'm saying is factually correct but that's not because I'm posting on the internet, it's simply that I'd normally tell the truth as far as I know it. All the people I've met so far who post on forums have been honest and the same in behaviour both on and offline but that is a somewhat self-selecting group - the fantasists are much less likely to want to meet up and risk being (further) exposed.
 
why do ppl lie in real life?

i had a 'friend' at school tell me his brother worked for Ferrari and could get me schumachers autograph...

then that he had invented some skates and was going to canada to sell his design to BAUER.

i dont like it, ppl dont like it and they see through it sooner or later.


but internet examples;

someone claiming to own a car they dont...for credability on a forum...then being crushed by the real owner of said car lol.
 
seek said:
Example?
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Well it's difficult because people aren't stupid. They try and use little bits of knowledge to infer they know much more than they do.

So an example would be a thread in graphics cards at the moment, where I'm trying (as are others) to highlight how cool a technology called CUDA is. Now I post on it, because I've been working on / with it for a while now so I feel I can comment on it. Where as I'd expect most posting are just "whoot I saw a CUDA logo on the packaging for my card - gives me knowledge of it right?!". Just p***es me off at times :o

Why pretend to have a clue about it if they don't :(
 
You know, this one time when we were partying at his house on Venice Beach I asked Jim Morrison the exact same question. He just looked up, his eyes fixed themselves on mine and he simply answered, "because they do, and what the **** is an internet?"
 
People lie in their day to day routines so it's no surprise they do it on the internet too, especially when many are anonymous.
 
People lie at any time usually because they just dont think they cut it the way they are, I suppose they are just trying to create interest in themselves. On the other hand people also lie to cover things they know are shamefull so as not to destroy their own perceived image.
 
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