Facebook makes all your friends seem like they have perfect lives, posting their meals and fun things they do, oh how depressed that makes me feel
Personally I don't have a very exciting life, nor do I feel the need to post the few exciting parts on Facebook.
But what I am certain is that nobody has an exciting life, people subconsciously love to filter their online presence to render a perfect image of themselves for the world to see. What we see on social media of our friends and acquaintances is really a concentrate of their happiness, a jealousy catalyst in our eyes, an unhealthy fragment of our social lives.
It’s true that if we spend less time on social media, we become happier, spend less time over-thinking and become less enslaved by our egos. Firsthand experience speaking.
As a public service announcement, we should maybe consider what we post on social media, sure it makes you look great, but consider how it makes people around you feel. On the surface they might chuck you likes and tell you how handsome and pretty you look but underneath you just forced them onto the self-hate and jealousy rollercoaster. If you must post something today, tomorrow even the day after how about we all post about a cardboard box you found on the street or how your trash can is overflowing because for this world to be a happier place, envy and jealousy has to be replaced by innocence, relatability and freedom!
Have a Sparkling Christmas and a beautiful new year! :)
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Interesting post. I think there is a lot of truth in what you have said. But I also know that from first hand experience that other's lives can look so much better when we are not content or happy in our own situation. Or when we are not just being ourselves and sometimes we can't be (like because of over-controlling parents...:P ) But of course people are going to post all the good stuff in their life. All those "friends" aren't *real* friends... many people have never even met probably half of them. How many people are really interested in knowing you and all your ups and downs? I don't post about my daily struggles with chronic asthma on social media cause those people don't really care nor would they understand. Not even the times I was in the hospital. They would tire of hearing about it all the time; but that *is* my real life and a major part of it.
I once got caught up in social media... it began to be too important to get comments or likes on my posts, that I was struggling with depression. I came to realize it was destroying my happiness and self-esteem. So I took a summer's break and did absolutely nothing on any social media site. When I came back to it, it no longer mattered what other people thought. I was happy in my life and who I was.
So enjoy social media in it's proper place and remember that life is only exciting if you think it is. People who feel a need to share their pics all the time, etc. are probably not happy with themselves because they feel that need to have others to convince them they are. It is said that people who are on a lot of social media are the loneliest people; and I believe that is true.
Thanks for your post and have a merry Christmas & a blessed new year!