When you hang out with people for a long time they tend to get to know you very well. This includes your weaknesses and faults and those would be common knowled

When you hang out with people for a long time they tend to get to know you very well. This includes your weaknesses and faults and those would be common knowledge in any group you were a part of. Maybe you got made fun for it but eventually settled into the group dynamic making it a comfortable place to just be yourself. Now we spend smaller blocks of time together, a lot of conversation is online where you can selectively present yourself favorably, social media is a selection of your best moments curated to be shared. We don’t spend time with people, so no one knows us and that creates a constant pressure to be “the image” you’ve presented. This is a recipe for anxiety, depression and having no resilience to the daily ups and downs of life.