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Originally Posted by ChipperMonkey
Maybe start off by realizing that Facebook is pretty fake to begin with? That way you can stop feeling pressure to post things. Many people are private and don't feel the need to broadcast every moment of their lives....in that sense, not being active on social media doesn't make you an antisocial loner, rather, it just means you like privacy. I think that if you really start to use Facebook more and more, you'll see what I mean. People only post the good stuff, the happy stuff and make themselves look perfect, or use it as a way to complain about the most idiotic things in the world (which just makes them look stupid). I have stopped using Facebook a number of times, but stupidly I go back....only to MAJORLY regret it later. Then again, I'm a pretty honest person and I hate any hint of fakery, so social media really isn't my cup o tea.
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On the one hand I would agree that
people on facebook can be fake and put up only happy things and good things at times but that is not unlike people in social circles IRL. There are fake people wherever you go and we all put on personas no matter what the medium is or if it is RL. The people that are fake on fb are the same people that would act nice and be fake to your face more than likely.
If one realizes it is never an accurate picture of anyone's entire life and keeps that fact in reference to what they see on FB you'll be fine, but if you take everything to heart and believe that you are seeing the whole person, you're going to be mislead and get into trouble. But again this is the same as if you look at any online connections. There is just far too much you don't know aobut the people you connect to only while on the internet.
I don't think this is the biggest problem with fb at all, because that idea is inherent on the internet across the board.