Digital Amnesia: Lying on Social Networking Can Cause Personality Disorders

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A new study found that two-thirds of Facebook users are lying on their profiles and are putting themselves at risk of “digital amnesia.”

Digital amnesia involves replacing one’s own memory with false events and living as if they were real.

In a new survey by social networking site Pencourage, more than 68 percent of the respondents admitted exaggerating or lying on their Facebook or Twitter posts. Ten percent of them showed symptoms of digital amnesia as they couldn’t recall what really happened in the past. The youngest users, aged between 18 and 24, of these social networking sites are the most vulnerable with 16 percent of them unable to recall the actual incidents.

Source: www.hngn.com

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