FB BS awesomeness!

Three startegies for self deception are: selective-omission, exaggeration and embellishment, and blaming circumstances. Selective omission can be seen when people on Facebook are tagged in photos. If someone deems a photograph to be unbecoming of their public image they can selectively omit themselves from the photo by de-tagging himself. Exaggeration and embellishment can be seen in Facebook when someone makes himself or herself seem a lot more important. For instance a person may talk about a particular event through photo comments as having much more grandiose details than were actually present. Blaming circumstances is a case in which someone may blame an unassociated circumstance as an explanation of a particular behavior. In the case of someone on Facebook, there might be a posted photograph where a person is partaking in an unsavory social situation or ritual. If the person cannot take the photo off of the Internet they might write a comment blaming something as a possible excuse of their behavior in hopes that someone viewing the image will accept their behavior as merely an outlier in their otherwise pristine veneer.