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- Are Text Messages the New Social Media? One Startup Thinks So https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/business/dealbook/text-messages-community.html 27 comments
- Men are twice as likely as women to consider themselves to be good at lying and at getting away with it, new research has found. Expert liars prefer to lie face-to-face, rather than via text messages, and social media was the least likely place where they would tell a lie. https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/men-think-theyre-better-liars 51 comments science
- New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media | Federal regulators have given debt collectors the okay to pursue debtors via email, text messages and social media sites https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/30/cfpb-debt-collector-rules-facebook-instagram/ 32 comments politics
- Men are twice as likely as women to consider themselves to be good at lying and at getting away with it, suggests a new study (n=194). Expert liars also prefer to lie face-to-face, rather than via text messages, and social media was the least likely place where they'd tell a lie. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/uop-mtt122019.php 15 comments science
- About half of parents use cell phones while driving with young children in the car, while one in three read text messages and one in seven used social media, finds new research (N= 760 adults from 47 U.S. states). https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/chop-aho070918.php 14 comments science