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Don't you all feel silly writing in third-person form on Facebook statuses...?


"John is so tired from work! He is so mad his stupid boss. But he is looking forward to going out with Katie tonight! He loves her so much! :)"


I mean, maybe one sentence is ok. Maybe. But when you start adding additional sentences still in third-person... you just sound ridiculous. By the time I arrive at "He loves her so much!", I just think, wait, who? Oh, you.

Besides this John dude sounds like a status whore.


Isn't that why Facebook changed the status blank to "What's on your mind?" instead of "[Your Name] is..."? So you don't necessarily have to type your current situation?

I roll my eyes when people still insist on always using their "name" as the subject. The most ridiculous ones are as so:

"Mark says: 'I hate homework!'"

I mean, really? Is the third-person verb even necessary?


Though I suppose my name could work in first person throughout the entire status... but that's just me.



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An article that I found through Lingformant: The Handwriting of Liars.


Apparently in a study, when participants were told to write an invented story, they pressed down harder to write and their handwriting was larger. They think this could be a way to tell if someone is lying.


I'm not really sure that being instructed to write a fictional story is necessarily "lying." Maybe it's just that creative writing takes more effort.

But then again, maybe the "creative writing" part of the brain is closely associated with lying.

I think the fault of this experiment was that it was not observational. If they could somehow create a natural environment of "writing lies" and "writing truth" and then observe/compare, I think the results would be more reliable. They need to motivate the participants to "write lies" without explicitly instructing them to do so.


Buy hey, if this can be proven, I wonder if work interview processes will change. Or any judicial processes. I feel like even still, some people will be good at "lying" on paper, too, just as some people are good at lying verbally. Like professional fiction writers or something.

Maybe J.K. Rowling could fool forensic linguists who use this process to test if he lies about Harry.

Hypothetically.


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