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Wow,

I merely do Facebook and few of my friends post very many "personal experience" pictures. A few do and it feels like no one gets judged that much. Other corners of the site may have a different ethos.

But this seems like a disturbing way to exist.

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Social media is like alcohol, enjoy it for what it is and don't abuse it.

If you become hooked don't be surprised when it's a net negative in your life.

I found my withdrawal from social media and alcohol was very similar. The difference is that there is no one tinkering with alcohol’s chemical composition to make sure it is configured just to fit my personal body chemistry.

Social media has a bunch of really smart people whose only job is to make it personally addictive to me specifically.

I totally agree. I've got Facebook, which I use very sparsely, and Instagram which I use a bit more often to post images for my closest family and friends. Thus I don't feel a need to post images displaying how "perfect" my life is. They already know what flaws, and what good things, I have in my life, so to try to pretend something else would be plain out weird.

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