Texting Makes You More Truthful

 People are more honest when they are texting. Psychologists did a research on 600 different iPhone users. Fred Conrad and his colleagues asked questions to the people. The iPhone users had to answer the questions by voice (calling) or by texting. The people that answered by texting were more truthful about answering the questions. The questions, for example, were about how much they exercised or how much alcohol they drink. The people who texted were also more precise and specific. While the people who answered the questions with their voice rounded numbers, the people who texted used exact numbers. Psychologist Fred Conrad thinks that people think about their answers more carefully when texting and that people don't care much about looking good to the person asking questions. Researchers plan to use texting as a technique in the future for conducting surveys. I think that another reason people might be more honest because they think that their text will be inside the memory of a phone forever while a person who asks questions and receives answers can forget things. I also think it is scary that people are more truthful in texting than actually talking. This shows that people have changed a lot and that more and more people are texting. (I learned this from research) People spend about 1- 1 and a half hours a day on texting and about 2.5 hours on social media. If people aren't even honest while they are talking, they next thing you know, everybody will be texting even if they are right next to each other. I think texting wastes time, phones were made so that you can talk to someone far away by calling, but now it is a texting device.