Continuing from my previous post about white lies.

White lies are usually lies that cause no harm. White lie or not..it is still consider a LIE! but in communication telling a white lie MAYBE important. One reason of course is for face-saving purposes, no one person in this world would want to be totally humiliated. Second is usually told to avoid disagreements and arguments.
Example: When a girl asked how she looks in whatever that she is wearing, normally guys would just say it looks nice or good even if it really doesn't. As most girls take their appearance really seriously and guys being guys would just wanna avoid conflict.

Next, when its concerning children, parents would use white lies to cover up certain topics that the children shouldn't learn to know about yet.
Example: When a child ask "Where do babies come from?" or "Where is God?"

Well lie in general are of course BAD. Ever heard the saying, "Honesty is the best policy"? Though in general, society would want to believe that is true,but they still lie!

"Research from social psychology suggests as many as one third of typical daily interactions involve some form of deception. This can be defined as a “deliberate attempt, without forewarning, to create in another a belief which the communicator considers to be untrue.” DePaulo and her colleagues, for example, have observed that university students report telling about two lies a day, while non-student populations report about one a day.The types of lies observed in these studies vary, from small “white” lies, in which inconsequential lies are told to be tactful or polite (such as saying “I love your haircut” when in fact you do not), to more serious lies (such as denying an affair)."

So whats does that tell you about the people around you? Haha. Unexpected would be the word isn't it?

In this so called modern era, with the presence to telecommunication technology, we now not only communicate face-to-face, but also through phone calls, emails, instant messaging and many more. Do you think with the presence of this technology, society would lie even more or find it easier to lie?

According to the same research, yes! "Although the total number of lies was greatest in the face-to-face setting, the highest proportion of lies occurred in telephone conversations, with 37 per cent of phone interactions involving some deception, significantly higher than lies in face-to-face conversations (27 per cent)."

So people, if you think your friends/family/business partner don't lie on a daily basis. THINK AGAIN! :P

Reference:
1) Jeff Hancock, Jennifer Thom-Santelli and Thompson Ritchie, 2004, We are more likely to lie over the phone than in an email, online, retrieved on 27th September 2008, from http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2363