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[quote=Anonymous]I get why people do this but I also think there are consequences far beyond their reasons for doing it and it’s a net negative.

Lots of people saw that photo and caption and probably felt bad because the photo looked so nice and the caption was so loving (I’m guessing) and that’s not how their family is and that’s not how their holiday went. Sure, they should remind themselves that you can’t trust the image projected on Facebook. But when you are aching from sadness over what your family is not, that image impacts you no matter how much you tell yourself it’s not real.

I know because I used to be one of those people. I left Facebook because so often when I was on there, I’d just feel so sad not to have this perfect family and life that everyone else was pretending to have. It didn’t matter that I knew they were pretending. Just seeing those images a lot was bad for me. The fakery was bad for me.

So I get why people do it but we’d all be better off if they didn’t. We could empathize with each other instead of competing. But Facebook doesn’t encourage empathy. They want you feeling a little less than all the time, it’s good for their bottom line.[/quote]

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