From Gapingvoid
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I have been thinking about honesty today.
First, my daily horoscope advised me to be honest but not too honest -
You may be tired of always being the one to tell it like it is, even when you know someone else doesn’t want to hear the truth. In time your honesty will be appreciated, but you must be careful about overstating your case. Avoid self righteousness and others will be more likely to join your cause.
- and then, I read Po Bronson’s take on how we are increasingly relying on technology to be honest -
We need an excuse, it seems, more and more. We need a way to soften difficult conversations. We need some way of introducing ourselves to strangers, and we need a way to complain, and we need a way to be brutally honest. New technology (caller ID, voicemail, email, SMS, Tivo) happens to be very good at filling this need. We rely on it, more and more, to assist in a variety of difficult conversations.
Bronson also explains why we do it -