…or looking up people you used to know on the internet…and seeing how fucking happy everyone is and how great their lives are.
Am I angry and bitter that my life sucks and they’re all happy? Why, yes, yes I am.
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“seeing how fucking happy everyone is and how great their lives are.”
… or how fucking happy everyone is *trying desperately to appear to others*, and how great their lives *have the appearance of being, on camera*.
If you could enter the minds and life situations of one of these Facebook divas who have 10,000 so called “followers” or “friends” or ass-lickers, your envy would come to a loud and screeching halt.
Think of how much energy these people have to constantly waste, just to artificially uphold the glossy appearance of their lives ?
They can’t even enjoy a simple outing without needing to capture it and putting it on the internet. They *MISS IT ALL*. Like I said before, in the time it takes to pull out a camera and open the Facebook app, the dolphin has ducked under the water, and you have missed it all 🙂
P.S. Your title is absolutely 100% correct, but your reasons for it are entirely wrong 🙂
Not everyone is pretending and putting up a facade. The chick I looked up a few days ago- we met in college- anyhoo, she is one of the few who genuinely is blissfully happy- and I mean BLISSFULLY happy, which makes it more annoying. She met the guy of her dreams while we were in college (we all went to different schools, but we are all relatively the same age). I knew her before she met the guy and after- you could totally see it in her face/demeanor/attitude- she totally loved him. Anyway, I graduated, didn’t talk to her much save for a few emails here and there. They eventually got married. Sent her a gift, didn’t really talk to her much after that as she had kids and got busy.
Anyhoo- so she’s got 3 kids now, and has gotten some culinary degree/certification/job thing and everything is fucking wonderful in her life. That’s why I’m bitter. I mean, I’m happy for her- she’s a nice girl- but ugh. She’s got a great husband who supports her through everything, she has the kids she’s always wanted, and she’s got the career path she’s always wanted. So yeah, she’s bloody happy and I’m bloody jealous as hell.
Oh, and she was able to achieve those things because of her bf/husband. If he hadn’t supported her all those years, she wouldn’t have been able to achieve her career goals.
Anyway, I’m well aware a lot of phony people put up false facades. Especially all the people I’ve met the last few years in this city I’m in now. But I knew this girl from way back, and I know she is one of the people that’s genuinely happy.
Yes, and I’ve also seen two assholes go to prison.
Believing others have happy lives is generally as unfounded as thinking you, yourself, are the suxxorz.
Social Media sucks the life out of people. It is building up an unrealistic image, and seeing the happy faces only develops more anxiety and depression.
I had a panic attack when I was checking on my bf in social media. The jerka$$ was cheatin on me, when we planned a time apart for few months, and I had no warning he was doing this. He seems to be really happy – high paid job in NY, married to the B of his life, with no trace of guilt. What can I say? I now don’t exist in the social web at all. I can’t deal with the annoying fake happy faces either.
but if it wasn’t for checking social media, you wouldn’t have found out about him cheating and likely stayed with the jerk longer. So it’s a good thing you found out on SM.
Yea, but takin a peek at his profile later made me extremely anxious and do crazy things. Can’t help it.
Not just that, when we’re depressed about everything that happened or that didn’t happen, scrolling through the happy moments of others can get us really paranoid. And, then invades us with all the related negative feelings.
I have a complete control on myself when it comes to SM now. I don’t exist anywhere and in no circumstance will I try to check on anyone.
Isn’t this a form of social media..
Yeah, I know this girl whose life is entirely perfect. Even when she doubts herself, her family supports her in every way. She has the time to do what she loves because her family supports her.
And when I compare myself to her I feel like shit. It is horrible.
Right. No one knows the hardship and pain of someone who’s completely and utterly alone, with not a single person to help or shoulder to cry on.