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Originally Posted by just_some_girl
Facebook isn't a great place to go for me when I'm feeling depressed, it just feels like everyone is 'rubbing it in' that they have better more exciting and fulfilling lives than me!  I don't want to read status updates about their happy marriages, great careers, exotic holidays, their new cars, how they just got the latest iPhone, what a great time they're having on a Saturday night...or. about. every. Last. Little. Thing. Their. Kid. Does!! And I never know what to post anymore because I don't want to seem pathetic and boring. I don't even KNOW most of these people beyond 'oh yeah, I used to go to school with them..' - and I'm pretty sure they don't even like me. Facebook just reminds me of how little I fit in... Yet, I can't bring myself to delete my account... |
Ditto with me. I deactivated a couple of weeks ago but reactivated before it actually kicked in. The neglected lonely me wondered if maybe I might have a message but alas nothing. I deactivated again and I am resisting as best I can to stay away.
I had recently reconnected with a bunch of people from highschool. I am 57 so it goes back away. Highschool was one of the best times in my life. At least at school. It was my escape. Reconnected did not go well for me.
Like you guys it just made me feel horrible to compare our lives. I should have been where they are and feel so much shame for how far off the mark I am. I had to get off before they found me out.
What sealed the deal was when I snooped on my son's account (he left it open by mistake.... he won't friend me... I might embarrass him)... I saw pictures of family and family friends. I realized too that none of them were on my friends list. Out of sight out of mind kind of thing.
Pictures of family events and social gatherings.... see all the love and laughter. They are so happy. It just made me sad. It was just more evidence how far I have sunk and how detached I am from living. It was like being dead and looking down at the life I once had and the people who once loved me. It was disturbing to say the least.
Facebook is not the place for people like me.