I have been starting to see an increasing amount of articles talking about how social media has been deteriorating humanity itself with the “fake” lives that people are portraying.
So you are telling me that all of the problems that this society has is because people can’t see what other human beings are doing with their lives without feeling envious about it?
If you are saying that you are unlucky because you don’t have everything that others have then you are the problem, not the platform or the other people showing their things.
Being sad because you don’t have the Ferrari that X artist has is stupid. Do you know how much things that artist had to in order to buy that car? If you want something like that then you should be working hard right now.
Complaining about life not being fair is a waste of time, what are you accomplishing while doing it?
Nothing.
Something that helped me understand why people are so unhappy sometimes when in social media is seeing what accounts they are following; most of those “negative” users are following a ton of accounts that pump out negative and bad content.
So, of course, you are going to think that life is shit since that’s what you have been reading for a month!
Eliminate all of those people that you are following that keep saying they hate their life and start adding people who want to push forward and want to keep going even if the road is rough.
I don’t think that social media as a platform is a problem. I think that people are following the wrong kind of accounts and ultimately paying for it.
Start following people that you admire and that you can learn from!
If we think of the good things that social media has done for us we would change those comments surrounding those platforms in general.
20 years ago we couldn’t have known what somebody across the world was doing on the same day, now we can even talk with them in real time with video chats.
Some say that social media has separated us apart but I believe the contrary, I feel that it had brought us closer than ever!
Much love to every single one of you!
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Originally published on Medium
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