Always at my best on Instagram

Hello, I am going to talk about Instagram today and how this social media encourages us to only promote the “perfect life”.

Now, I have some questions for you:

Would you post a picture of you totally depressed, lying in bed and eating cold pizza? Of course not.

Would you post a picture of you sick, with runny nose and watery eyes? Nope.

Would you upload a selfie on Instagram with no makeup so everybody can see your pimples?

No way.

Why? Because everybody can see your pictures, even people you’re not very close to and people you don’t like. You don’t want them to think that your life is normal (a normal life is not perfect at all). You don’t want them to judge you in a bad way. You want them to look at your pictures and think “Oh my God, she must have so much fun last night!”, “Woah, her life is so cool, she smiles on every picture!”, “She is so pretty all the time!”.

You are feeding our ego by showing everybody how happy, pretty, rich… you are. You, me, and almost everybody who upload pictures of themselves or their life.

It is kind of a spiral: you feel envious and you make people feel envious too…

But when you’re not feeling confident, when you’re in a bad mood or when you are facing difficulties, seeing all of these people posting cool stuffs on Instagram might make you think that your life is not as great as theirs.

BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE.

Instagram is not reality. The girl you envy has maybe health problems, recently got through a heartbreak or lost her job last month! You don’t know what’s happening in people’s life so don’t believe what you see on their account.

See you

Alexandra