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Old Feb 05, 2015, 06:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Salmon77 View Post
Well, it's not really that you hate her kids, right? You don't actually know them personally. And what you see on FB etc. isn't reality--people don't post their bad, ugly moments, so their lives might look perfect, but chances are they're not.
Yeah, this. Facebook (and the like) can be a real button-pusher if you are in the wrong sort of mood to see the edited highlights of everyone's gleaming exciting life.

Nobody posts on Facebook when their boiler bursts and they're freezing their arse off for three days. Nobody Instagrams pictures of being in hospital (again) because their mundane and unglamorous chronic health condition needs them to be admitted for a few days. Actually I do and a lot of my friends do, which is maybe why I find my social media a pretty grounded place to be - but I have friends who definitely don't post the boring, squalid bits of life. It's all modelling contracts, recording albums, jetting between London and LA and Sydney. Because I know them in real life as well, I know that they have a fair chunk of boring **** go on as well, even if they don't have mental health problems.

Get off the kids' social media! It's like that saying - Never compare your insides to anybody else's outsides. You don't know the full story.
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