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Chat lies
How often do you lie to simply keep a conversation going?
For example, there's a friend of mine that is a great conversation partner. When someone is telling her a story, and asks her something on the lines of "Hey do you know what X is? Have you ever done Y? Ever been to Z?", she simply says "No, please tell me about it", even when that's simply not true. Sure, sometimes you forget what you did in the past (so, it wouldn't really be a lie, based on what you remember), but you could deliberately lie in order to keep your interlocutor speaking. I'm even reluctant to call it a lie, because in practice, you're actually saying "No, I've got no relevant experiences to share with you right now so I'd rather listen to your take on it", instead of "No, I've never done such a thing in my whole life".
What do you think? Do you ever do that on purpose? If so, why? If you think it's stupid, have your say 
Personally, I can't recall doing that, but I think it's a good conversational strategy. In my case, though, I'm a terrible liar so I'd end up contradicting myself sooner or later 
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