Deception in social media

This topic has grabbed my attention, I even wrote an English paper on it. Deception is deliberately inducing in another a belief known to be dishonest. There are many degrees of this dishonesty, you may not tell one single lie, but you could leave out an important detail of your life, like that you are bipolar. If you don't tell that to a person you are talking to online when they meet you in person you may frighten them, and when they find out the will be mad you didn't tell them. As we learned in class there are negative outcome of being lied to online and positive outcomes. Negative out comes are lack of trust, embarrassment, and feelings of loss and betrayal. Positive outcomes are that you may learn a lesson, like the girl from catfish although the person she was talking to wasn't a real person, through him she was able to pick her life back up. In the article I found (http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/big-fat-liars-less-attractive-people-have-more-deceptive-online-dating-profiles) It found that normal people are likely to lie about height and weight. It also found that people for are less attractive lie more. Females may use more photo shop and men will lie about their income, occupation or education. As people when we talk online we need to go into these conversations knowing that this person may not be honest,  we also need to find ways to pick up on  when we are being deceived. Especially online since there are less social cues, it is hard to tell when people are lying online. Unless you add in another method of communication. Like talking on the phone or video chat then you have more nonverbal cues and you can pick up on deception easier.