Will I lose my dignity? Will you still care?

Saw this in my feeds, and found it interesting as well. Are Kids Copying Their Parents When They Lie?

Although we think of truthfulness as a young child’s paramount virtue, it turns out that lying is the more advanced skill. A child who is going to lie must recognize the truth, intellectually conceive of an alternate reality, and be able to convincingly sell that new reality to someone else. Therefore, lying demands both advanced cognitive development and social skills that honesty simply doesn’t require. “It’s a developmental milestone,” Talwar has concluded

So I was going through some of my backups, because I accidentally blew away my Linux partition on my desktop when attempting to do something silly, and I came across an old AIM screenname that I used to use, and hadn’t for a while… So since I was bored and waiting for things to install, I started going through my buddy list reading the various names and remembering the people behind them… and I noticed that AIM has a Member Since: line… Here is mine:

Member Since: 1/7/1998 5:24:26 AM