Social Media And The Problem Of Comparison
- Social media helps us create a fake image of ourselves that we work hard to refine and curate, attempting to make ourselves into a brand.
- This narcissistic tendency in many of us does not incorporate any ethical or moral values.
- Social media encourages comparison, which impacts our psychological health as it sucks our happiness.
- When we see people having a ‘great’ life on their Instagram posts, we continue to scroll, hoping to find something else to counteract the envy.
- We end up posting something great about our lives in a semi-fake status update.
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