Are you on social media? Do you compare yourself to others? Have you ever sat down and thought about why you do that? Social comparison is when you compare yourself to others doing better or worse than you. Okay, so let’s stop there… Now ask yourself again, why do we humans like to compare ourselves to others, especially when it’s not a comparable comparison? What’s my point? All I hear about nowadays is everyone talking about popular social media figures on Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook. I am not writing this article to bash social media, new technology and our current culture, I’m focusing on you and every other human out there. I want you all to stop comparing yourselves to these so-called perfect accounts, the perfect bodies, the perfect bank accounts, the perfect marriages, the perfect lives or whatever other assumption you might have made from such little information.
do you really think that every picture, post, update or snap you see on social media is 100% real? I will help with you with that, NO! Social media is not only a new platform for networking, staying in touch with friends and keeping up with the latest news and trends, but it is a game. It’s also a business and people know how to play that type of game too. What’s bothering me though is that I keep hearing many men and women talking about people on social media, either bashing on their perfectly airbrushed good looks, deeply jealous from their ‘oh so perfect lives’, wish they could have all that money or saddened by their ‘happiness,’ but why all the assumptions? Do you really know if this person is really happy? Are they actually living the life they portray on social media? Let me answer that one for you too, NO!