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welcome to top five I'm your host is that Chuck being honest with ourselves is really important but sometimes we tell ourselves little lies to justify some behaviors I worked out really hard so I can have that donut right sure my credit card bills really high but I need that new phone so for this top five we're counting down the top 5 tech lies that we tell ourselves at number five selfies are okay selfies are so popular that the word itself is now recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary however unless you're with the group or in front of something amazing we all know you took 30 different photos before you posted that one selfie online you ever walk by someone taking a selfie outside well there's nothing special going on do you know how silly this is they're making faces that thing at number four it's okay to reuse that password no it's not okay to reuse that password you think it's okay because what are the odds that a site would be compromised and your password would leak so why not use that password again and again and again it's a terrible idea stop lying to yourself number three you don't have to check your phone just because it buzzed I've seen it all the time phone buzzes on a dinner table and your lovely dinner date you begin that little dance you look at each other one of you looks at the phone on the table that's facedown and this continues until one of you snaps usually me there is some kind of sick compulsion to check your phone when it buzzes why is the buzz worse than a time I don't know either but it is at number two you're not a digital hoarder you think you'll watch every movie and TV show you have on your Netflix watch list you think you'll try out every new app you've downloaded you think you'll play every steam game you pay for it maybe even you use all those Groupons yeah you're only fooling yourself there will be a day when you do all those things it's called a 30th of February think about that one yeah I mean never before we hit the number one tech lie you tell yourself let's see what you had to say that's right it's time to check Twitter Jay said I need the removable battery in my note 4 Colin says he lies to himself when he says I'll do that task and not just stare through minder on my home screen all day and the link says he lies when he says I say are you serious for everything but I actually don't thanks to everybody for all of your dirty dirty lies on to number one and the number one sec lie we all tell ourselves is our private information will stay private you set your Facebook profile to private and you think no one will ever see your photos meant for a select few you texted someone a picture that you'd be embarrassed to see somewhere else yeah I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it's almost impossible to scrub something off the internet after it's been on there it's like trying to get food crawling out of water now to be clear I'm not saying that people who share photos of themselves are fair game to hacks or unapprove sharing of photos they're not we're all entitled to our privacy what I'm saying is that believing whatever you put online can be private is one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves I'm sorry there you have it the top 5 tech lies we all tell ourselves you agree or disagree let me know on Twitter I'm at is for more top fives like this visit top-5 to Netcom thanks for watching and I'll see you later