March 15th, 2007
A recent survey by a campus group revealed some astonishing results. Many students admit they fake conversations while walking to class in order to boost self esteem.
Rather than meeting and conversing with fellow students, some choose to enact a lively, fictitious rapport with an imagined receiver.
“Sometimes, I act like I’m having a conversation with Gwenn and I totally ask her about that yodeling song and she calls me A-rock ‘cause my name is Amanda and…” revealed freshman Amanda Schwartz.
The traumatic pressure from society forces many young students to make up for their self-imposed shortcomings by promoting a façade of vast relationships and meaningful events through fabricated conversations. Others see the person on the phone and think they actually have a life. Manny Cointreau relates his thoughts.
“Everyone always asks who I’m talking to. I tell ‘em business associates mostly, sometimes my friends from Europe I met on a backpacking trip or my anthropological colleagues from South Africa. In reality, I hate white Africans and haven’t even been to Mexico. Thanks cell phone!”
