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Researchers at MIT announced the shocking results of a groundbreaking study Monday, revealing that over 90% of the population of the internet are liars and hypocrites.
Other statistics revealed in the study:
92% of claims made in online profiles were found to be false, including references to gender
12% of people maintain twenty-five or more distinct online personas
0.02% of people were totally honest in their online interactions
32% of people online really are actual, literal dogs
[i]12% of people maintain twenty-five or more distinct online personas
This is probably common now, but I attended a security conference once where the speaker elaborated on an online personality she had developed to integrate herself into the hacker "underworld". She was very meticulous and had actually spent so many years developing her character and socializing him with the other hackers that whenever anyone questioned his qualifications or legitimacy, several people always backed him up (so and so's the real deal, I've known him from back in the day when he was still a novell administrator, etc.). Suffice it to say that after the 90's, she had little trouble gathering the intel she needed to do her job.
The paper offered a number of hypotheses for this strange behavior (multiple identities), including widespread undiagnosed dissociative identity disorder, schizophrenia, and/or rabies.
Well, yes.......that is a possible explanation.
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