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Social media is such a weird thing. You feel envy even when you're doing pretty well. Like I would see some old school friend sharing vacation pictures on Inst
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Social media is such a weird thing. You feel envy even when you're doing pretty well.
Like I would see some old school friend sharing vacation pictures on Instagram and I would somehow feel an instant pang of envy. Even though I had been on a vacation literally a month back.
I concluded that I was getting absolutely nothing out of social media. The entertainment is middling at best. The connections are shallow. And the feeling of envy can be overwhelming.
Deleted Instagram and Facebook. Kept WhatsApp because that has actual friends and family. Kept Twitter because shitposting on anonymous accounts is actually fun and has no impact on my state of wellbeing.
Also, I don't know what TikTok is like because its banned in my country, but Facebook and Instagram (especially Instagram) seem to be the most mentally damaging of all social media apps. Maybe its because of its culture or maybe its designed to be that way, but it really, truly is awful.
- is_true 4y agoI think we should focus on not feeling envy when others are doing well. I always like to think that if everyone around me is rich, no one is gonna ask me money, haha.
- piaste 4y agoIt's not quite envy, it's expectations. It's like being at a dinner party full of people dressed up to the nines while you're just there in a clean but unremarkable shirt and blazer. You can genuinely like everybody at the table, you'll still feel an undercurrent of discomfort. And that dinner party lasts 24/7.