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RE: This is for those not doing anything particularly splendid or exciting today

in #life8 years ago

Social media has created a culture where people feel the need to one-up each other. I can think of all sorts of examples of this: taking the most exotic travel photos to get the high of 100+ likes, moms throwing lavish birthday parties for their kids so that they can take photos to prove to their friends that they're the best "supermom", I could go on.

It's easy to lose yourself in all of this, join the stupid competition and forget to live your life for yourself and those you love. I think we need to praise normality a bit more and it's great to see posts like this that do that exact thing.

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Very true. It is easy to lose yourself in it all. I stopped watching commercial TV years ago because I decided that advertising agencies paid millions to know how to crack through to me and even if I thought I wasn't being affected by advertising - I was. I think the same thing goes with social media, you can see 'image crafting' in action, know it exists, think we are not affected by it, but we are.