There is no person who never never experienced "virtual envy". Looking at the chic interiors of someone's apartment, we compare A photo of a joyfully laughing and beautifully dressed child and completely plunges into depression: our children are not so happy — we bad parents....
But re really everything is so cloudless in someone life or we don know something about social networks?
- The truth about social media that you don't see on your friends' profiles
- Be careful, your life may be in danger
The truth about social media that you don't see on your friends' profiles
The feeling of one's own inferiority (or the inferiority of one's life) will quickly and pass without leaving a trace, as soon as one understands what is behind these "happy" photos and comments.
The desire to feel better
We can talk for a long time about that someone else opinion does influence our life, but in fact everything is different. Man — social "animal" and how the "members of the pack" appreciate it, is of great importance.
People who defiantly declare their life or personal successes are often guided by the desire to establish themselves in their own importance. At not appreciated? But Instagram subscribers go crazy with envy, looking at photos with a magnificent view from the office window and a chic office interior. Is everything okay in your personal life? But "likes" under the photo from the nightclub they make it clear: hundreds of people dream of such a pastime. And it alleviates the oppressive feeling that the career has not worked out, and we can only dream of a happy family life.
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Boredom
What do you think yourself: a person who has something important in life: family, career, hobbies — will he make endless attempts to attract the attention of complete strangers to himself? Of course not.
And the the who you envy or whom are trying to be, is highly likely just a person who doesn know what to do. His life is often uninteresting and boring, and his activity in social networks — just trying to bring a little bit of fun into your existence.
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Loneliness
It is loneliness that most often pushes us to social networks, where you can for a while feel your community with other people. Here you can talk, argue, discuss interesting topics and do almost everything that we d d d in real life if we have real friends.
And in order to attract as many interlocutors as possible, "network activists" often do not disdain banal lies. They tell stories about non-existent trips to tropical countries with non-existent rich admirers; about awards in international piano competitions that their child receives who actually hardly mastered the Dog Waltz”. And they can even show photos confirming their words, but they"borrowed"these photos on someone else's page....
As long as someone admires their fake life, they feel much better. And will be back soon with a new story and another dose of the drug called “Forget loneliness”.
Business
This is the most honest, but the rarest form of "network activity": the owner or owner of the page in social networks demonstrates its success with pragmatic goals — attract more subscribers to your account and earn money from this. It can be contextual advertising, paid shares or network marketing, but the formula is simple: more friends and followers — higher income.
Be careful, your life may be in danger
The most annoying thing about "virtual envy" — that it threatens your real life. It’s worth getting carried away, and you won’t notice how attention to someone else’s life will overshadow the concern for your own health, interest in the success of children, and your husband’s problems. And the time spent looking looking at photos or reading comments from your idol” very soon it will be calculated not in minutes, but hours. So be careful and remember that the person "following" — this is:
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A stranger whose real life you probably will never know and who doesn everything that happens in your life.
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A person who has not less, but some and more problems than you — he only masks their beautiful landscapes and interiors.
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A person you can look up to if really worth it. But motivation for success should be born from the desire to achieve one's own heights, and not "wipe your nose" someone.
In a word, be smart on social media. Be aware that the time and nerves that you lose on someone else's life,nobody compensates you. And only your real achievements can give you real pleasure, even if only you know about them, and not your subscribers.
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