I have always struggled with social media and its impact on my self image. I am an anxious person by nature and I have poor self esteem. Facebook provided a form of escapism for me when I first signed up, but even back then I noticed that being on it ultimately left me feeling worse about my own life.
Constant comparisons with people who are much more popular than me don't help. The thing is that I refuse to believe what I see on Facebook is a facade. I work alone as a freelance writer and upon logging in to Facebook yesterday, I immediately saw pictures of former work colleagues out enjoying drinks together. This made me feel shit.
I guess Facebook reinforces how wrongly I'm living my own life. If I didn't take the risk to become a freelancer in a completely different field, I'd have the great social life that my former colleagues seem to have.
Ultimately, I feel deleting Facebook won't help me because I've already seen the evidence in the form of photos, that other people are much more popular and live more fun lives than me. I am just curious to get some thoughts on whether Facebook impacts others similarly?
I feel like there is no way for me to use Facebook healthily without deleting everyone on it. I have a news feed eradicator but I can easily bypass that and just view the profiles of people who post regularly. It's like a form of self sabotage; why do I car so much how these other people live their lives?
Submitted November 22, 2019 at 08:06PM by throawayarsebiscuits https://ift.tt/2D9y2vH
