Does social media pressure you to have a perfect life?

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Lost_in_the_Woods · Accepted Answer

Does meth make your teeth fall out?
Yeah, if you do it every day.

But not mine.

I don't use social media.

It's designed by the companies that run it to "influence" or in other words control the people who use it to do three things.

Buy things they want you to buy. Think things they want you to think. And keep doing it every day.

But what is a perfect life? You think girls who are famous on Instagram are happy? My ex was the most miserable person I've ever known and she had many thousands of followers.

Perfect isn't what they tell you to do or how they tell you to be. Perfect is what makes you happy. On your terms.

Social media doesn't pressures you to do the exact opposite. It's like smoking meth because you want to be happy.

AncientWisdom · Accepted Answer

No thankfully. I grew up without all of this technology. It has made life easier , but I have a sense it has stolen something as well. Since the advent of technology opening up all this information to people and it’s evolving as it goes affecting human sexuality and I believe eventually human evolution. It’s all smoke and mirrors though for we are evolved beings that evolved over eons of time to behave as we used too creating a balance between masculinity and femininity. It has made for more instant self gratification then at any other time in our known history. This has in turn created a very narcissistic and self serving modern culture. Hence all the unhappy people we see every day.

lilyanony1 · Accepted Answer

No because I don't share my life on social media.
My life is my private life.
My social media includes things I'm interested in, my creative projects and occasionally my frustrations at our government when I've probably held it in for too long. (always a mistake)
But always showing videos of love, kindness and fun. Where I can.

whirled_up_girl · Accepted Answer

Yeah, I think some people feel pressured to have a perfect life or typical life because of social media. That's one of the reasons I don't spend much time on facebook. I use it mainly to keep in contact with family and friends but I rarely post anything, and I don't use instagram.

Funkychickenballbag · Answer

When you’re going through hard times or had a shit day looking through social media can make you feel like everyone has it better than you. All it is is people posting the stuff they want people to see. The good stuff. Nobody’s posting their failures. And you don’t know what goes on behind closed doors. Some of these peoples failures and what goes on behind closed doors could be far worse than anything you could be going through in life. That’s why focusing on real life and not social media is most important. You open up social media all you’re gonna see is good stuff. How people are in real life is where you need to base things off of.

Anonymous · Answer

Nope social media has actually made me realise just how fake and pathetic people are to the point they fake they are on a private plane when in reality they paid money to sit in a room in Los Angeles that looks like the inside of a private plane it’s also made me realise just how insecure people are having to photoshop their photos and use FaceTune to alter what they look like it’s quite pathetic and sad at the same time

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

It pressures you to post things like your life is perfect, to make it appear so, even when its not.

When I see posts, pics and crap about someone having a great time and doing all that stuff, I know often it is pretty fake. Sure there is a little truth to it all, but its exaggerated.

LinaDaGoddess · Answer

Not me personally.. lol i could give a flying fuck what someone thinks about me on social media.. but also, I never put myself in the position to be judged harshly.. I feel like a majority of people have gotten too comfortable on social media and they’re becoming more open & honest with certain things and it gets them in trouble later.

melanieeeB · Answer

Nope.
If you're honest with yourself, unfollow the accounts that aren't good for you and most importantly know that social media isn't the real thing, well then you're good to go. And if all that doesn't help, then get off of social media , it's that simple

Anonymous · Answer

There is no such thing as the perfect life. Even on GAG people (girls, men, whomever) assume if they have 100,000 pts on GAG everything they say is right and then they become ignorant and belittle new GAG users and GAG doesn't do anything about it. We live in a make believe world where if you are behind a screen and the amount of points you have or likes you have makes the assumption that someone is always right or extremely beautiful and has the perfect life or says all the right things lol. People may wonder why do I use GAG if I am ripping on this site. It's only to kill time. If GAG went bankrupt or IG or Twitter, life goes on, I won't care.

Faerum · Answer

Yes a bit, Im really active on LinkedIn and i love seeing people accomplish goals and get further in their career. However, it stresses me out and always makes me feel like I haven’t done enough and I don’t make enough.

I constantly see guys who are ripped and that does also take a toll on how I view my body.

Personally I think it’s actually a positive thing overall, it pushes me to put more effort into being a healthier and better educated person.

Vikkrram · Answer

Nope for me not coz nobody have perfect life that's all myth, false. Yes people do pretend to have one but deep inside we all know that we all are Humans so naturally we all would have problems and it's not gonna end till we alive and even after death.

Chris_u006 · Answer

Couldn't care less. I give 0 fucks about what anyone think of me.
People nowadays are too judgmental.
People nowadays are too selfish and only selfish.
People nowadays care more about what other people do than to take care of themselves.
People nowadays are too divisive when we need to unite more than ever before.
Why is it like that?
What can we do as a whole to change all the negativity into something positive?

Julielamar2 · Answer

A perfect life? no. Because that is not possible. As human beings we all make mistakes, sometimes we act selfishly etc, this is the price to pay for being human.

And then I don't know exactly what you mean by "perfect life"

dankstranger · Answer

No it doesn't. But...  No one posts their failures. So a scroll through social media would have you believe that everyone is constantly carefree and winning 24/7. That is not the case.

RoccRaider24 · Answer

I use social media to follow things I am interested in like sports you know guy stuff but also where can read my horoscope, spiritual content. I'm not so social on social media 🙄 😂

dustybiker · Answer

Only if you allow it to. Too many people are afraid to think for themselves and be themselves. Wrapped up in worry of what other people think.

Blackcupcake · Answer

maybe to an extent I don’t have the typical social medias everyone obsesses about, and I haven’t had it for years now and for me, it’s more peaceful without it than with it

Diodoro · Answer

No, but a sense of competition that already exists in humans in general gets exacerbated by it if they don't manage their emotions.

ManOnFire · Answer

Only if you let it. Your page is supposed to be about you and what you do. Not others'.

MJtheCoach · Answer

Thank God that men are not biologically designed to go for attention so men don’t give a rats ass about social media it’s mostly you girls who are married to especially now Tiktok.

Soon to be meta!

dragoblack · Answer

Lol, no. If you let social media give your life worth. You are not truly enjoying life for yourself and need to look at your priorities.
Are you enjoying what you enjoy, or are you trying to get attention from people who don't know you exist?

BoobMan · Answer

Doesn't everyone just naturally want a more perfect life? I wasn't aware that this was some form of "pressure."

loveslongnails · Answer

Social media has absolutely NOTHING to do with how I want to live my life. LOL I can't understand why it would, or why people feel pressure from it.

Dingsbums · Answer

If social media would do that it would actually be a good thing but what social media is doing is make people pretend that they have a perfect life

DaveToo · Answer

Define perfect life. There is no such thing. Life is what it is, regardless of what others think yours should be.

Danny_dan92 · Answer

I think it does that to literally everyone. Which is also why I personally believe is the reason why social media is so fucken toxic to society

LadiesFavoriteToy · Answer

Laugh women who go under the knife to be the perfect woman. Please... I have seen tubs of shit more kind than rotten super models bent on self destruction based on countless lines of coke.

DonotThankMe · Answer

Nah it adds more pressure and makes u more sad
And makes u not happy with ur achievements as even ur achievement is good tou when u open social media u will find it so small
So social media is the worst place ever to share ur achievements

Dontaaaa · Answer

Yeah, that's why I don't use most social media platforms.

exitseven · Answer

I really do not use social media much except for GaG.

TexasRed95 · Answer

Not at all. This is the only social media I use and just when I get bored or have spare time while waiting somewhere. I can't stand social media.

Better_off_here · Answer

I think that it does make us want to show we have a perfect life, most people do just that with social media, they want us to think they have a great life.

Anonymous · Answer

No I defined a lot to myself long before social media hit my life if anything that and other factors have taken the edge off of my own projective desires

whosnumber1 · Answer

no. I dropped all social media. it's a bunch of crap

Anonymous · Answer

I am not even on any social media to begin with. I kick ass and I don't need to show it... unlike those self so called "alphas"

Gia013100 · Answer

Seems like it all people are doing is showing their A Side.

cookiecrusher · Answer

Does feel once a week like everybody has a perfect life😅 What's a video vixen?🤔

noohair · Answer

No one has a perfect life. Social media only shows one side of life, the fake side.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Not one bit. Social media is soly entertainment for me.

OddBeMe · Answer

No because I'm not trying to impress anyone. Why do so many pretend?

Anonymous · Answer

I quit mainstream social media last year and not going back to it. I use decentralized social networks now.

TheBootyChest · Answer

I avoid it so I can have a better life.

Agape93 · Answer

Nope. I lost any chance of that the day I was born

PeacefulRainDrop · Answer

Nope I couldnt complete anyway.. no interest.

Anonymous · Answer

I grew up before social media became a thing  SOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOO

sheikalana · Answer

LOL no. I couldn’t care less about social media.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

No, it's completely up to you to abscess over it.

Dargil · Answer

The only social media (sort of) that I do is GAG.

dudeinohio · Answer

Nope. Everyone has issues. Be real.

zagor · Answer

Nah, I pay 0 attention to social media.

Wise4myage · Answer

No, not that I'm aware of.

najekim · Answer

Social media has no bearing on my life.

Anonymous · Answer

No, most people only post about their successes.

Wowboi · Answer

If perfect life means unrealistic expectations

Anonymous · Answer

It’s probably more for showing off

Zlantur2 · Answer

Used to but I don't care anymore

soupwithafork · Answer

To a certain extent yes

whistlingwh0res · Answer

not really. it's just an ghosternet

Ninani · Answer

No, my family does.

invalid1 · Answer

Good question... yes

Subarugirl · Answer

No… it doesn’t

Grond21 · Answer

Ha, they try

Uptowngirl88 · Answer

Nope

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