Ditto with the other 2 comments here. I don't lie to like, do nefarious or bad shit and hurt my friends. I lie so people don't fucking worry or think poorly of me. I just want people to not think about me.

When I was a kid, I made up stupid, ridiculous stories to make myself look cooler but I grew out of that. And I'm fairly decent in a conversation so I don't gotta make up shit to sound interesting anymore.

But I still lie to people on an alarmingly regular basis. Nowadays its about asinine shit. Where I've been, what I've been up to, how I'm doing emotionally/financially. Like, the other day I lied to a bunch of friends saying I had to split for like half an hour because of a short meet up with a nice girl at a coffee place. I actually wanted to go to a bar and drink alone for like half an hour but I already had like 4 drinks that day and I don't want my friends to get wise to my potential almost problematic drinking problem. So all my lying is utilitarian.