Assignment #4-
For this assignment I knew I would have to choose someone who wasn’t one of my really good friends, so that they wouldn’t necessarily know if I was lying. I chose to first use a lean channel and send an IM to my roommate from freshman year that I hadn’t caught up with in a while. We talked for a while before I brought up the summer and this awesome trip I went on, the lie. I told her that my sister and I went to Thailand for a week in July and it was amazing. She asked all about it and I think I did a good job describing it as I had time to think about what I was going to say before I responded to her questions. I think that I was successful in deception because there were no distractions of non-verbal cues. We probably talked for five minutes about the trip. She asked basic questions; what did you do there and what was it like there? After telling her the lie I remembered that I had to tell her about a real travel experience as well, so I asked her if she wanted to meet for coffee the next day since we had so much to catch up on. She immediately accepted the invitation and we set a time and place to meet.
The second conversation I used a rich channel of communication, face to face. We met for coffee and again got into talking about our summers as we hadn’t seen each other since last semester. To my dismay, she brought up my trip to Thailand and started asking me more about it. This time it was more difficult to speak about it as I had no time to prepare my answers, and I didn’t want to sound like I was lying. So I quickly changed the subject and brought up my real travel experience; going to California to visit my aunt. I think this definitely made my friend a little bit suspicious because my story about California was not nearly as interesting.
After I finished telling my story I told her about this assignment and after a couple laughs she told me what she thought. She said that she completely believed the Thailand story until we spoke about it in person. “You looked really nervous and our conversation seemed unnatural”, she said when I asked her what her reaction was to our conversation. From this I was able to conclude that deception detection is more difficult in CMC than in FTF. Lying in CMC gives you more time to edit the response and lack the cues and feedback that FTF provides the receiver of the message.
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I think you definately made the right decision in talking to and decieving a friend that you are not very close to. I chose to talk to a friend that I speak to multiple times a day, and she knew right away when I was telling the truth and when I was lying. You did a great job describing deception detection and how difficult it really is to lie face to face. The nervousness shows whereas with CMC you can take the time to modify your responses and there is no need to worry about how you act or your tone of voice. I think you did a great job describing your interaction with your friend and integrating the theories behind the deception.
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