If we take the social media to be a swing and we as children know the swing screaming 'mama look at me! See how high I can go!' it might make some sense.
The social media is really an attention seeking platform and to get the attention we so desire everyone has to be fluent in exaggerating things whether positively or negatively. We have to do this because the social media gives you the impression that is all about you; likes, comments, follows, share. But the truth is no one really cares, we actually liking, commenting, following and sharing ourselves. As a result we want the best us out there; the best dressed, well fed, happy us. We are focused on ourselves only.
There is this Beyonce's song Pretty Hurts that I feel applies in a certain sense to how we are on social media. We smile, we take selfies, we bask in the adulations of our followers but are we happy?
For at the end of the day, when your phone and laptop powers down and you are alone in your room, do you feel happiness within you? Are you happy with were you are in your life?
We will never know anyone fully especially the people we meet on social media.