Blogpost 2: Truth Be Told

Like what I've said in my previous blog, we lie everyday because it has become an "everyday phenomenon" already. But anyway, do white lies help in a relationship? If you ask me, I think it does.. (Sometimes!) Truth be told, we lie to our friends, partners and parents just because we want to maintain a good relationship with them. We think that it's the only way to protect their feelings. 

In this article by Elizabeth Palermo, titled, "Truth Be Told, White Lies Can Keep Relationships Strong", I found out that white lies are really helpful in maintaining good relationships with others. We think that lying to our friends and family may seem like a quick way to destroy their trust. Wrong! Not all the time. But if we lie for the reason, it makes our relationship with them stronger. Oh and fyi, people tell white lies online too! How? By simply liking a friend's facebook status! 

"I think that in many cases you can consider the like a white lie [if it's done] for reasons that having nothing to do with support," Rosen said.

And I absolutely agree with what she said. Liking a facebook status that you don't actually like is already a form of dishonesty. Like for example, your friend asks you "Is my outfit today nice?" Instead of saying something that isn't very nice, you just like the status instead. We are afraid that we might comment something rude that will hurt his/her feelings.

Another article that is contradicting to the article I've read earlier says that The author of this article is Michael Schwable, titled, "Why White Lies Are More Dangerous Than You Think." For most people, the temptation to twist the truth is easy. The dangerous thing in white lies is that when we get caught, the person's trust whom we lied to will lessen. It will make it hard for him/her to trust us again. Most importantly, while trust and credibility are easy to lose, they are difficult to earn back.

Researchers found out that white lies do have consequences and that the danger of telling them is they lead us toward being more dishonest. According to Feldman, "If you find out your boss has lied to you, it makes you feel OK to tell lies to your boss.

I'm somewhere between agree and disagree. It actually depends on your conscience if you're going to lie to your boss too though.