Lying On Facebook Can Implant False Memories

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Not only is it hard to keep track of all the lies people tell on Facebook, psychologist now say it can also implant false memories. :eek:

Embellishing the truth to impress friends on sites like Facebook may implant false memories, psychologists have warned. A fifth of young people admit their online profile bears little resemblance to reality, and that their recollection of past events has been distorted by their own fabrications.
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The article in question proves that adding the words "On Facebook" to something can take a totally mundane, uninteresting fact and make it into a profound observation about the state of the human mind in a post-industrial society.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
The article in question proves that adding the words "On Facebook" to something can take a totally mundane, uninteresting fact and make it into a profound observation about the state of the human mind in a post-industrial society.
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It's a bit like the "enhancement smoker" in the movie Half Baked. Have you ever seen the back of a twenty dollar bill... ...on weed?
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
The article in question proves that adding the words "On Facebook" to something can take a totally mundane, uninteresting fact and make it into a profound observation about the state of the human mind in a post-industrial society.
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Maybe read "Industrial Society and Its Future"?
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
The article in question proves that adding the words "On Facebook" to something can take a totally mundane, uninteresting fact and make it into a profound observation about the state of the human mind in a post-industrial society.
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See Creepy, every now and then you post some good shit like this. On Facebook.
 
You will meet an interesting person.... on facebook.

reminds me of fortune cookies "in bed" lol
 
How does that saying go? Tell a lie enough and pretty soon you start to believe it.
 
What is even worse is that even when presented with correct information the human mind typically rejects it.

The study (PDF) states the following:
Providing factual information is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for facilitating learning, especially around contentious issues and disputed facts. As highlighted by this study, individuals are influenced by a variety of biases that can lead them to reject carefully documented evidence, and correcting misinformation at its source can actually augment the effects of these biases. Our goal is not to discourage future work in this area, but to suggest a variety of correction-presentation strategies the designers might use to help overcome these biases.
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Ultima99 said:
Its more than that. The imperfect memories are because of the lying on Facebook.
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Because we never had people engaging in selective memory or false memories before Facebook :p

One of the more interesting documentaries I saw on History Channel one time was on the Roswell incident. They were talking about the fallibility of human memory and recollection. They conducted a test where they took about a dozen folks on a desert walk. They walked them past some debris with a man standing nearby (no explanation, they didn't stop or give it any special significance). One month later they met with them and asked them to describe the incident. The accounts varied from the debris was part of a spaceship to there were alien bodies in the debris (there weren't ;) ). Also descriptions of the man varied substantially ... he was armed (he wasn't when they walked by him) ... he was aggressively telling us to move on (he wasn't armed and didn't react to them at all). Memories are tricky things and the human capacity to lie to itself (even before Facebook) was pretty exceptional :cool:
 
That's not even getting into how women's memories tend to be affected by emotions, and it's significantly worse if the situation was bad. when men are the opposite. (although this is usually spun as men are more forgetful than women) You can see this in everyday arguments. Everyone tends to reinforce what they want to believe.
 
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