• @Manticore@lemmy.nz
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    59 days ago

    There are several fake text generators so I don’t trust any ‘screenshots’ with only one timestamp, especially one for 1am :/ why are you both up at the same time to exchange messages that fast

    I can believe exchanges like this are happening, I’m just also fully aware that people like making up fake Everybody Clapped posts too, and this strongly looks like one of them

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        8 days ago

        I guess it’s because when I’m up at 1am, I’m actually doing something, like playing video games, out with friends, or working on a project. It would take me a couple minutes to reply, and create a new timestamp.

        It’s less likely a person is just sitting at home on their phone at 1am, ready to text back immediately. Or a person reading the news at 1am and deciding to text a friend about it. That sounds so… hollow.

        Its possible, because boring night shifts and depression and phone addiction and increased lonliness etc etc, but imo its still likely that the texts are fake and the person who made it was too lazy to add another timestamp. The single timestamp is the biggest tell for fake texts because people don’t think it add more, but IRL they’re very normal.

        Part of internet literacy has to be skepticism, because it’s very easy to generate fakes. If you believe something is true/real just because you agree with it, your worldview will be easily manipulated.