Wednesday, April 18, 2012

1. Deception

So everyone knows that people lie about all kinds of things on online dating sites, even Facebook. Is it ethical? No, I don't believe that it is, but that doesn't stop people. I think that it is easier to be deceptive during an online interaction because there are more aspects that you can lie about like your looks, your weight, your attractiveness level, etc. Also people make themselves out to be who they want to be or who the other person might want them to be. A person online can pretend to be into sports and use Google to keep up with a conversation about sports, while face to face interaction makes something like that almost impossible. Even though deception is much easier accomplished during an online interaction, it still occurs during face to face. People are never one hundred percent honest and lies happen all the time, whether they are major or little white lies. People tend to exaggerate on things they are insecure about just to make themselves feel better and in the end deception in both interactions is still unethical.

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