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Old Feb 05, 2015, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by IndestructibleGirl View Post
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.

I know I shouldn't look. I know it's bad for me.
But sometimes I feel disconnected from her, or afraid or simply just bored (usually at work) and then I end up looking them up on social media even though I know for a fact it will hurt me.
It's like I need to punish myself, to atone or something.
Ugh.