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I'm 35. When I look at the people I follow on social media, I feel bad, because they're much nore successful than me, often even much younger too. When I look
by k__ 6y ago
I'm 35.
When I look at the people I follow on social media, I feel bad, because they're much nore successful than me, often even much younger too.
When I look at the people I meet in my daily life, I'm doing quite okay.
I haven't set an alarm for work in years, can buy what I want without too much consideration, mostly work when I feel like it, and the work I do is often interesting.
- vmception 6y agoAnd what kind of success do you think those younger people on social media have? Can you give an example of what you look at? Is that success something you want?
- k__ 6y agoDon't know really. They got thousands of followers, people actually engage with them, their opinions are valued, etc.
- vmception 6y agoAh yeah opinions being valued is a good one I dabbled in thought leadership for a while, with a PR agent, and its nice to have a voice and really awesome google results but I didn’t/don't like being considered like a journalist on rare occasion In unrelated anonymous profiles (lifestyle/wealth/meme/model pages) I have used followers and engagement as currency. As in used to obtain goods and services. Its great because you never spend it and it works worldwide. But I prefer just having access to experiences without undermining my ability to obtain goods and services, food and shelter in the future. I mostly have that, and there is very little limitations I will consider in achieving that. It sounds like you have that.
- neilalexander 6y agoThe "success" that you see on social media is probably exaggerated at any rate.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIt's not necessarily even exaggeration as much as selection bias. If you have enough "friends" on social media, statistically every other day one of them will post something they're proud/happy about, making your feed a constant stream of other people's "success". But the brain is having a hard time dividing these streams by the number of people in your feed; it feels as if it was a small group of people who have it all.
- chrisjarvis 6y agoNo offense but why are you on social media at all lol. >I haven't set an alarm for work in years, can buy what I want without too much consideration, mostly work when I feel like it, and the work I do is often interesting. You are doing better than 99% of people who have ever lived!
- k__ 6y agoI'm a professional blogger.
- chrisjarvis 6y agothat's a good answer!
- syndacks 6y agoHey there -- I had my come to Jesus moment (aka gtfo) with Social Media when I realized that people I didn't even know and care about were evoking feelings of shame, guilt, and/or anger within me. And then I left. Read your comment. You're fine! You're more than fine! To thine oneself be true.
- k__ 6y agoThank you.