What are some consequences of posting false, exaggerated, or misrepresentative information about one's self on social media, such as Facebook or Linked-In?

The consequences of course, would be someone finding out that you have misrepresented yourself, and your classmates would have even more reason to disdain you. When I say “you” I mean anyone that misrepresents themselves on social media. I personally don’t say much about myself on Facebook. I state where I work, what town I live in and that’s it. I’m not sure where a person would state their accomplishments unless it was just random posts on their page. Hey, I just got an award at my office! I think unless you have just recently graduated from high school, like in the last 10 years, I wouldn’t fudge my accomplishments. Everyone else is just trying to live their lives and probably don’t care what other people are doing or accomplishing.

Yeah, I kinda admire best those who say they are the Chief Executive Officer at Self Employed or even at Unemployed.

I guess I will leave my current position as Petting Dogs and Cats

@Yellowdog
The real issue is if YOU are happy with yourself. We all have to decide at some point, that our past doesnt define us, hon. Those people probably could care less, no offense.
(hugs)
Stop lying, you are what you are. Embrace that or change.

(hugs)

I only participate on Fluther. Only because I stumbled upon it…
I kind of hate FB, Instagram, and the like.

@Yellowdog . As to your details section . I don’t think you’re a loser. And I say FUCK anyone who does. We disagree on some things. But I’ve read your posts enough to know that you have a good heart. That’s sadly, a rarity. I got your back.

I personally don’t lie, or misrepresent myself here. I may be vague, in some cases, to keep some anonymity. But otherwise, I am exactly who I say I am. I find dishonesty, to be against my personal code of ethics… Being genuine, can also help you. It can give others the opportunity to tell you something about yourself, that could help your real life. Or help you see things, from a different perspective. That helps personal growth.

Consequences, should be personal, I guess. @KNOWITALL has it right… As usual. (Other than Trump;)

The consequence is that those you are hoping to impress will find out the truth of your situation and accomplishments, and have a lower opinion of you than they do currently, or that you think they do.

” the day’s vanity, the night’s remorse”.

The people who post only truth, often show themselves in a bad light too. Who cares what someone ate for breakfast?
The repetitive selfie shit, is one of the biggest reasons I don’t participate in such sites. People expose themselves as self centered, narcissists. My 17 year old nephew, is constantly showing me stuff from FB, or Instagram. Even our pathetic POTUS, can’t resist sharing his every thought. As if anyone cares. It usually just blows up in his face.

I know several people who hire people, as part of their job. One of the first things they do, is look at the applicant’s FB page. If there is stupid stuff on it, they don’t pursue the potential employee at all. Example. I’ve seen dumbasses, holding two gins, while smoking a blunt, in big pictures, on the top of their page. Pictures of women doing all kinds of dumb sexual poses. I’ve seen white guys with assault rifles, in front of confederate flags. I saw a guy who posted a video of himself going over 1e0 mph, and swerving through traffic, on his own page, with his real name. Genius…
Many pictures, are self-incriminating… Stuff like that. It’s just plain stupid…

It’s going to be hard for the last couple generations, to become parts of the government, like future senators, governors, etc. That’s for sure… The country, will have to start evolving, to accept that some people have posted unflattering pictures of themselves, that will remain on the Internet FOREVER…

Some people on Fluther have misrepresented themselves in the past and the result was disappointment.

^True. If your referring to the pirate. I was a bit disappointed. But I didn’t feel betrayed. I think most of us knew there was something up with some of his stories. But, he slso added some very insightful contributions, that were not lies. He never seemed to intend on hurting anyone. He was smart, can’t fake that. And he was more of a pirate, than any of us… To me… He’ll always be a pirate. And I miss him dearly… My biggest disappointment, was that he felt he needed to make up his persona, in the first place. We would have loved him regardless, of who he really was…

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I post about myself very sparingly on FB. Few photos of myself or my child. I try to limit the jokey meme posts. I’ll post photos of storms or my pets or some scenery. Most people I’m friends with on FB couldn’t tell what my job is, know nothing about my personal life from what I post, and didn’t know when my mom had cancer and a bunch of other personal stuff.

Lately, I’m finding people’s “I’m happy, look at me” posts to be very distasteful. it seems like all bragging. They’re shopping for expensive stuff, they’re constantly in restaurants, the kids are the best in sports, it’s all “look at me.”

I know of friends’ posts that are outright lies. One served in the military for a short time and lied about his psychological state to get a discharge (he told me what he lied about decades ago when he did it), and now he posts about being a veteran and people thank him for his service. Crap like that is totally ludicrous.

People taking selfies all the time is another thing that I find to be very self centered. Not every photo has to have you in it.

@yellowdog: I bet there are people that see your lies on FB and they don’t say anything, but they know you are embellishing. You don’t have to do that. Don’t even make your posts about yourself. There’s a whole world out there you can talk about. A movie, a place, a restaurant, a thought.

@jca2 Agree on the selfies and narcissism.

@KNOWITALL: I feel like at least once a day, when out in a public place like on the street or at a mall, there’s an idiot with the phone up and she’s posing in front of it.

@jca2 If the mirror reflected hearts instead of faces, there would be far less selfies. Fr

I love that, @KNOWITALL .

@jca2 Pinterest. Lots of great poetry there.

Oh I love Pinterest. Often what happens now is that between FB, Fluther and Instagram, I forget that Pinterest is there.

People lose their faith in you and in what you say.

Yeah, I’m pretty certain you’re not alone in exaggerations and outright lying about your accomplishments on facebook. Facebook seems to be too often the smiley, everything is hunky dory facade some people like to present to friends and relatives. So, as someone above has already pointed out, likely the only consequences would be someone you know finding out your misrepresentations.

I think you need to focus on why you feel the need to impress people you went to high school with. Why do you care so much about their opinions? You’re letting them have too much power over your psyche. Maybe you should get off facebook and focus on your self-esteem for awhile. I’m no longer on facebook and feel much more productive and happier.

I’ve never presented myself as having a successful or much better life on Facebook.

I’ve mainly made careers and projects out of things that were one-time events and smaller projects. Most of what I say WOULD check out. But nothing I’ve said really would amount to much to most people.