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Rose Anajjar • 4 years ago

You forgot always making everything into a joke

Terrence Hunter • 5 years ago

Fake as fuck but more like a 🐺 never been the capiche🐢

Briana Giselle Jauregui • 5 years ago

This is complete PERFEXON!
Thank you😀
I totally needed it for verificaxon of sanity.
Recently (like 2 weeks ago), it occurred to me that my supposed BFF of 11 years is so full of shit...
At what point is a thing composed of such an amount of shit there's no way to distinguish said thing from AXUAL shit?
I say 70%.
😜

12 graide French girl • 6 years ago

I am living in a world of fakenesse at my school... its a little French school and everyone brags alot... like everyone does it! It's always about them... I am like an outcast I have no friends and everybody is socialising and alway looks happy... but me... im always sad and I get nervous when I have to talk... and it really hard for me to talk about my emotions beacause I know that no one really cares... so I just talk to my mom... but I know that she can't be with me for ever...

Metalhead • 6 years ago

Fake people also like to pretend everything's fine and then they shun any and all bad in their lives and when you have problems they tell you "just go with it."

Marc Buteri • 7 years ago

Pretty spot on article and not a surprise at all. After reading a lot of the comments I find people misinterpret what is trying to be said. It is not a bad thing to smile to greet people and to make them feel welcoming. After all, that's how conversations open up in a positive way. But when the conversation starts shifting with more in depth topics or the subjects are not really based around you, there is no point in keeping these 'good manners' of yours. Have a laugh! Open up, share your thoughts! Don't be that person that thinks 'This is what people would accept of me to say in this situation!' Screw people, I don't care about them right now. I care about you! I want to know YOU better! If you don't open up to me at first go that's fine, you need some time to get use to me I get that. But if you're my work colleague and I've been in the same job as you for 6 months, I'd expect a bit more from you, especially if I never did anything to upset you. Or if there is something that upsets you, why aren't you sharing it with me? That was not a literal question, I already know why. Because you're judgmental and think you have it all right. Don't put yourself in that position! Just talk to me, talk to everyone with a genuine positive aura. Who cares if that other guy tried to make your life miserable. Be the bigger guy and express genuine interest about his life. Not only will that make him uncomfortable, he will feel BAD for what he did if you played your cards right.

Another thing, I won't talk much about my life but I will say that I use to live in areas with less people a long time ago. When you have smaller communities, the people tend to open up more. Not all the time but more frequently. When there are more people around us all the time like in cities, we close ourselves in to avoid all these people you see walking around you. Being able to separate ourselves from those moments in large crowds to smaller places such as work or activities such as dancing, sports etc is important since you do not need to keep to yourself like a turtle. No one is going to bite if you share your thoughts, as long as you are open minded enough to accept other people's point of view too. When you don't agree, never get angry! That makes things worse. You may call that being fake, but no that is not the case. Simply say you don't agree and explain why.

That's all I had to rant on about. Anyway, good article. Very true to what our society stands like nowadays. So much to talk about on this subject.

Anthony Tharcius • 6 years ago

Smiling always says fake I totally disagree. Sometimes we try to explain if the other person is wrong. Some have attitude of what they do is 100% correct. So we feel arguing is waste of time and we may feel lose the relationship just because of Arguments. Present culture everybody likes to appreciated not ready to be get correct. This article is totally dirverting the topic. True friends can be realised only during our difficult times how they behave and help us and motivate. A crazy behavior guy would be very good in helping but he likes to be always fun filled around. Appreciation, Advice, warnings, motivations are good way of going right way. Why people hate Arguments no person ready to accept other person view and reality. They want pleasing response. Sometimes Arguments lead to anger. We may not able to predict what the anger person may do after. What if he is does life threatening. Please understand peace lovers always likes to be adjusted and peaceful. Friendly society.

Dude • 6 years ago

I think you are a fake person yourself, and you are really stupid. This article is very true. I believe you can't even recognize the kind of smile is about in here...

dude8484 • 7 years ago

This is a fake article about fake people written by a fake person.

Someone who makes you feel like crap is not fake, they are a crappy person and they are obviously not hiding it if they are cutting you down all the time.

A person who says they are fine when they are not does not feel comfortable discussing what bothers them because they either don't feel comfortable enough with you or do not think it is worth the time because you wouldn't understand and you just asked how you are doing because it was a fake question and you didn't expect to get a real answer anyway.

Someone walking around smiling all the time might actually feel good about themselves and are having a good day, it does not mean they are a psychopath.

Much Complicate • 7 years ago

The thing that sucks is that really what a fake person is, is someone who hides their emotions. The crazy ones are the ones who act like this article. But there are a lot of fake people who live life as if they're feeling real emotions and make "real" connections, and then couldn't care less when you're out of their life.

Ben Werse • 7 years ago

I would think that's the majority of people. Sadly. On the other hand, for some of us social situations feel like we're faking it, so it may come across accurately ...but for different reasons.

Thomas Wills • 7 years ago

The smiling thing is total bullshit.. This thread only applies to sheep and statistical clones....

Kristen Jay • 7 years ago

I have a fake sister in law. She smiles and is cheery around you but I know shes 2 faced because I caught her in a lie. And even though shes pleasant at family gatherings, I know she secretly dislikes all of us.
She also needs to be the center of attention.

Keir Griswold • 8 years ago

you're so fake, you make barbie jealous!

Koko • 8 years ago

LOOOOL I have a fake freind and she's all of that

pg • 8 years ago

well done! nailed it!

had2makeanaccount2comment • 8 years ago

Honestly this is so true, I drive myself crazy trying to figure out how to deal with the social manipulators, how to stop them insulting you just to make you feel as bad as they do. For example i'm 18 and I started my first job recently, and this one girl there seemed to be suprised I made a friend so early on. Me and my friend started noticing how everyone just spends there day in silence without communicating to their collegues on a personal level apart from us. Believe it or not, we where quickly being made fun of for hanging out together.

I have noticed similar manipulation when it comes to me getting the girl most of the time. It really bugs people that I raise above them, but guys especially.

I've accepted the fact that because i'm likeable and attractive, I will always get shit from the guys with low self asteem, when these assholes insult you, just remind yourself that they do it out of spite. Because you might not realise this, but they probably take jabs at you because it annoys them that you are simply a better person than them.

I'm started to learn that you can't let your guard down, i'm actually too down to earth.. not FAKE enough

Theres a reason people have a fake smile permanently fixed to there face, as cold as this sounds, unhappiness is a weakness and your enemies will use it against you.

You always have to protect yourself, so be just fake enough to not show weakness, don't lose sight of true relationships like you mentioned in your article.

Guest • 8 years ago
Blahblahblah • 8 years ago

Way to go dude with the negativity. This is exactly what the original commenter(to whom you replied) was talking about. A person opens up just a little and BOOM. A Jerkoff like you has to comment something negative because you feel it as a personal attack. You must be down on yourself right now as well, but don't fret bro; that's what the entire article is about.

As for you folks who think that ANY sort of fake news is OK in society. You Are The Problem.

Blahblahblah • 8 years ago

fakeness* not fake news.

some kid • 8 years ago

My mom is like this, sometimes I tell her up straight to stop but she'll take it as an attack. I know we all do this but I think they meant abusing these things.
Sometimes you'll never find time for these people.

Rico Azhardi Fajri • 8 years ago

Fake people? Aren't we all? Fake people are people that will stab you in the back or say something mean to you and when you go to say something back, goes to her friends and the finger at me and when I go to defend myself people won't believe it oh no no no she's too nice to do something like that.

disqus_yMWtirvpK5 • 8 years ago

This fits the bitches at my college class well. Be nice to your face but talk shit for no reason so if they talk to one person about someone they're bound to talk shit about you

Harry Smith • 8 years ago

Does it really mean I'm a fake person if I smile alot??? I mean a smile is apparently my generic face, even though sometimes when I am annoyed or mad, I am said to be smiling

Weaselina • 7 years ago

I smile a lot as my default communication face. It is not something I do falsely.
However, if I am trapped in a situation with people where i feel uncomfortable and not able to be myself because it would not be accepted (a really scary family reunion of super racist and sexist southerners I don't really know but want to keep friendly relations with) then i get the forced smile thing happening, which hurts my face. I only do it when people are talking non-stop at me about a lot of bullshit I don't care about but don't know how to politely escape.
The way i see it, when people put you in that position, it is they who are being rude, not me. I don't trap people and bore them to death. I actually pay attention to social cues.
Most people don't.

Much Complicate • 7 years ago

No. People can tell the difference. It's all about context. I tend to smile a lot too.

Edgar Hernandez • 7 years ago

No I smile a lot too

Craig Bowers • 7 years ago

Yes.

Cheryee Cha • 8 years ago

Life is hard, fake, stuck up people, they r just lost and r in need of help. Life for them must have been hard growing up. A big impact must have happened in there life for them to act that way. A long depression that they have that can last for years. So horrible that they past it down to others and make them feel bad. I honestly feel like I act this way, its so hard sometimes I see it and just try to be friends with someone but end up ignoreing them again. Which hurts them, that person not knowing what they have to face through their whole life. Its hard to tell others your problems... That's why people just hide back in there shell. Trying to open someone up is super hard. Hugh.... People r just depressed, I is..... I dknow, so many types of depression. Probably the #1 hardest thing to cure. "People that r reminded of death, they show increased prejudice against others with different world views." Feels like me, I don't want to make friends, might just end up ingoreing that person. Or whatever they say staving their backs with feelings. I don't want to ruin there day. Hugh...... Trying to be nice to others again and again with a smile, its hard keeping that face up. When they going threw a hard life.

Guest • 7 years ago
Weaselina • 7 years ago

Yeah, this article is really weak. It is not meant to illuminate anything, but clearly meant to break down people for what the OP thinks is happening. Maybe he is unbearable and people around him react a certain way and this is his estimation of them?

I dunno.

Everyone has their baggage. Most people can't really ever know other people cause they spend so much time trying to control everyone around them in some way, as if that is possible.

Arch Fake Spotter Crosser • 9 years ago

Why don't you go deeper and ask why?
Also, I am pretty sure it's an epidemic related to the vast majority of people being obsessed with the vapid materialism of this demented age we are enduring.
People have no honour,no character,no ability to see beyond their own tiny lives.
They probably should be pitied.
Don't sweat it.
Sure it can be mindblowingly annoying and occasionally shocking when you realise a person is just a phony deadbeat, but you never really know what is going on for them.
Other hand, if they really are a true fake weasel well pile on.Go hard, and make that fucker squirm when & where you can.
It can be great sport and extremely liberating!!

Jonathan Edward Robinson • 7 years ago

The fuck is wrong with you!? Make people squirm hunh? You egotistical bitch.

Crowley • 9 years ago

This list fits my in-laws perfectly. It's the combination of all the items that lead to No. 5.

momomomomomomom • 8 years ago

lol

Oscura Diosa • 9 years ago

The easiest way to avoid fake people is to stay home. Everyone puts on a face when they leave their house.. women even spend hours preparing with makeup in order to walk outside the house. Men put on a show as well.

This is how we get around in society, and your article suggests we smile at those we feel are fake and move on which makes us fake. Society would crumble if we were not fake because we would stop what we are doing walk up to every fake person we know and say you are fake in which they would reply you are fake

The Emporer has no clothes.

Guest • 9 years ago

This list should be read by my coworkers. This one girl is so fake its scary.

louise • 8 years ago

it's me. I'm the fake one. We probably work together.

Sane man • 9 years ago

Seems to be a lot of aggressive and negative comments under this article, I guess people don't like reading the reasons why they are fake. The 'smile all the time' people get under my skin a bit, 'always be happy' etc. It's pretty ignorant to try and live this way, and heavily promotes repressing your emotions, yet it is banded around like some kind of wise life philosophy.

"We all know that person who, even if they practically have a mouth covered in blood from verbally ripping someone apart the second their back was turned, is going to greet you with a bright Stepford smile and a squeaky “Hiiii-eee!” - This sums up most of the fake women I have to work with in a nutshell, I can't stand it.

Weaselina • 7 years ago

Maybe they compartmentalize better than other people?

I can be pissed at someone for doing something I don't like, and yet greet someone who walks in cheerfully if they do so to me. Why should they get a lapful of anger that is directed at someone else?

In fact, I resent the hell out of people who can't keep their shit compartmentalized to some degree. If you are in a shitty mood because of something not related to me, I expect that not to spill onto me in any way.

Manage your shit, people.

Out Of The Box • 9 years ago

Wow, a round of applause for who ever created this article. Very re assuring, hit the nail right on the head. Im interning at a company and have always gotten weird vibes from some of the people here. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I decided to just keep my distance and not get too caught up in their cult.

Nikki • 9 years ago

I work with coworkers that are kind of like this. Nice and smiles in front of you, talk shit about you behind your back or even right around you, thinking you're stupid to not notice. Especially one leader I have from the job seems like a stuck up b and her voice as well as attitude gives it away. Ugh.

Oscura Diosa • 9 years ago

It is hard but it is best to avoid people like this as much as possible and try to stay cheery and do not let it get to you. We fake people tend to drag others down with us. And by cheery i do not mean fake just work around people you like when possible.

Nikki • 9 years ago

So you're admitting that you're one of those 'fake' workers who gossip and talk down at others? Well, I appreciate the honesty if that's the case. Thanks. :P

thinker • 9 years ago

#6 Write articles with little to no context in real world situations and title it, "5 Things Fake People Do" with obvious ulterior agendas towards human attribution.

Mystery • 9 years ago

If you people hate this article so much, get the fuck off of here you bunch of pussies?

Weaselina • 7 years ago

I guess someone does not like feedback.

sotrue • 9 years ago

Thank you for writing this article. This is so true, many people I've known fit the description. Usually, opinions that are true have a negative response, people don't want to face reality. I had a horrible work experience and I was shocked when I read this article, they fit this description almost 100%. Now I understand and I will be careful when dealing with this kind of people. Don't mind the hateful comments.

BluntAss • 9 years ago

I am a fake though I hate myself for it. Problem is I want everyone else to be genuine. Is it me or are humans like that only?

craiggness • 9 years ago

it is a vast combination, I do not think we truly try to be fake,it is like a defense mechanism when we are not accepted for who we truly are, you probably adopted an attitude that you were not even aware of, when I notice I am fake it shocks me. We are emotional beings on the surface and we have to study what pains us because otherwise we will always be talking untrue shit simply for not believing instead of searching, fake people have forgotten their own faults and have been so invoveled and brain washed by others or certain beliefs they crititicize the actions of others (although possibly none of which they have never done) but does that mean they havent done something slightlky similar or possibly worse? Then it turns into the focus on someone entirely seeminglingt worse than you in completely different categories. sure you or someone else might not have such a weakness but it doesn't mean you are not weak in another area. A fake person is someone who never admits they have faults and tries to act perfect, but of course it is to a certian group of people, but the true fakeness comes from criticizing others for their faults that possibly is untrue to you but are their faults worse than yours even if in a different category? You have to start following what you believe and see where it leads, if your beliefs never meet conflict and pain, you are fake, if you never learn an important lesson and you get praised for sucking up you are fake. fakeness has many dynamics, you could be told you are fake for saying truth simply because you can not always follow what you preech, that is not being fake but being human, sometimes you have standards you can not reach, being real is realizing your limits and suffering and trying to improve them in general.