Read this, if you use FB a lot.

in #facebook9 years ago

Read this, if you use FB a lot.
This post is dedicated to all the FB people who sacrifice their life for photoshoots, bike poses (show that their bike is their life😆) and dressing up for Mr. Zuckerberg. :p
There's been a lot said about the danger of consuming social media. After all the sites are designed to be more addictive than Crack. The articles do little more than waste your time and the misrepresentation of how people live can lead to depression with the state of your own life.
But the real danger of Facebook and other social media sites is not in what we consume but in what we create think of it.This way every time you post a photo you are contributing to the creation of a persona. The problem arises when you get attached to that persona when you look at your Instagram photos or your Facebook profile and you say that is me at that point. The persona the mask that you have decided to show people becomes your identity you protect it.
Every selfie needs to be pretty enough and every caption needs to be funny enough with every single post you are saying - “this is who I am, judge me” and that is when you doom yourself because that constructed identity isn't who you are. Sure, you're in that photo but that's not how you look all the time and sure you did write that caption but you're probably not that clever all the time. Those moments are fragments of your life carefully selected to make you appear a certain way. They aren't the whole you and so even though you crave the validation from the strangers in the comments. They don't really make you happy in fact the more that you care about those likes the more that I can guarantee you will be unhappy.
Why?
Well, first off it takes a lot of energy to create and manage an identity. Think of all the photos that you've ever taken and deleted, the time you spend filtering, editing plus the work you put into getting dressed up knowing that you'll be seen later on Instagram. Think of the time spent crafting woody tweets and captions you are trying to control how strangers perceive your reality. When you do this and it is incredibly taxing second you sacrifice your own experience to promote your identity.
Note: Newsfeed is designed for mindless consumption of shit, use "Newsfeed eradicator".

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