I’ve been dragged back into the twenty-first century for this latest post, and I was so enjoying meandering along those corridors of the past. Never mind, I’ll be revisiting the past in the near future anyway, so it’s not that much of a problem. Talking about time can get slightly tangled, which kind of fits in with this post.

Kind of.

I’ve read on the news that they are thinking of bringing in an on-line lie detector for social media, to test the authenticity of the information that is being broadcast to the world. They say it’s needed, so the speculation, controversy, misinformation and disinformation can be categorised accordingly.

So, if I twerped that I was in a bad mood and really wasn’t, sirens would screech and red bulbs would flash all across the planet – to those who’d read that I was in a bad mood, that is. Well, I hope that’s it. It’d be very noisy and bright if the sirens and lights went off for everyone on-line when I said what I said.

I’m not really sure which category ‘I’m in a bad mood’ would fall into, come to think of it. Disinformation – it fits there, but it also fits in with misinformation (especially as I wasn’t in a bad mood… why I said that in the first place I have no idea). It may also fall into controversy, as I’m never (hardly ever!) in a bad mood.

It needs to be a really clever lie detector, that’s all I’m saying.

So.

In the near future, when this all singing all dancing on-line lie detector is brought on-line, a few helpful hints and tips for the settings you may want to use would come in handy. Here’s a list I prepared earlier (in the past!):

• Set the lie detector to view the site you are viewing, and not the whole internet, to save your sanity.
• Turn your volume down to it’s lowest level, or set the lie-detector’s alert function to lights only. That way, you’d still be able to hear your thoughts as you read.
• Use a book or cloth or other item to cover the light (if external), or run the on-line light in a separate browser in the background, so as not to be distracted.
• If reading my blog in particular, bear in mind that some of the posts may not be entirely true. And don’t think that just because the lie detector is going off, what you are reading isn’t the truth. Sometimes, when living in a fantasy world, the truth can be distorted somewhat. (Well, the truth can be distorted living in the real world as well, come to think of it, otherwise we wouldn’t need lie detectors in the first place!)
• Read what you read with a pinch of salt, and if it doesn’t sound real, it probably isn’t. Unless I’m writing about one of my trips to Venus.
• If, when you are typing a post on a blog, or twerping something on social media, and you have to be hooked up to the lie-detector software with those finger attachments, wear woollen gloves beforehand. Mittens may work, but typing can become a little difficult, and you may end up writing something you didn’t intend to, and set lights and sirens off everywhere in the known Universe.

The alternative is not to use social media. Wait – I don’t, so that’s easy for me. Or do not blog. Wait – noooo. I’m not stopping blogging. Sorry world, if I set those lie detectors off with my posts, remember, it’s them. It’s not me.

You can believe what you want to or don’t want to when you come here – all I ask is that you have fun. And that is the truth.

See.

No sirens.