I used message based deception for option one in sharing about my travel memories. For the rich media channel, I spoke with the friend over the phone, while I told the false travel memory through Instant Messaging.
In both cases, my friend could not tell the difference of which was the lie and which was the truth. The story I lied about was a smaller story within a travel experience that really occurred. Therefore that probably contributed to why it was so difficult to tell the difference. When asked to pick one, my friend chose correctly.
For the false story that I told through the leaner media channel, I tried to be very detailed with my descriptions and illustrate my memory with words through my IM conversation. I also purposely chose the leaner media source because personally, I’m very bad at lying and most of the time all my friends are able to distinguish my truths and lies. Therefore, going along with the Social Distant Theory, I felt uncomfortable to lie over the phone because I was afraid the friend would catch me off guard with a detailed question, or get a cue from the tone of my voice. Ironically, my friend thought that because I was so detailed oriented with my story, that it was the false one, because it seemed for like I was describing a historical event rather than a personal experience.
The second travel memory I shared was through the richer media channel of using a phone conversation. Using the phone, I was able to talk freely and naturally about my experience on a family vacation to the
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Grace,
My experience also related to the Social Distance Theory because it was very uncomfortable for me to intentionally lie to my friend face to face. And just like you, my lie was detected. Even though I lie more in ftf, as it comes more naturally, I think it would have been easier for me to lie in the CMC so I wouldn’t have felt so guilty!
My friends also assumed the truth bias because there was no motivation as to why I would randomly lie to them about a traveling story. They did not think I was lying until I told them to choose, in which case, they chose correctly. It’s interesting how your verbal cues, like your displays of happiness and enjoyment, were able to help your friend decipher that it was the true story. Since I was determined to fool my friends, I tried not to display much emotion when telling the story and instead, my friends were able to detect the lie because they said I sounded differently. Did your friend think that you talked different online when you were lying than how you normally talk on IM? It’s hard to lie to people who already know you so well, or maybe we’re just bad liars.
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