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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree OP. And I participated in this activity 10+ years ago when I was in my late 20s/early 30s. It was absolutely an effort to show people that I was popular and had friends, that I was busy and interesting. It was for exes, coworkers, old classmates, etc., to show them "look at me, my life is very lively and socially successful."

Once I realized that was what I was doing, I stopped. I also discovered that when I stopped posting like this to social media, some of these activities became less appealing to me and I stopped attending some of them. The biggest thing to fall by the wayside was the kind [b]of big group "girls night" dinner where like 10 women of varying levels of friendship get dressed up and dine at a trendy restaurant and take photos and post them. [/b]It turns out I never enjoyed them! They were often unnecessarily expensive, it was common for various people to under-contribute to the bill, and often there would be several people at the dinner who were unpleasant to me or engaged in weird behaviors like competing with me to prove how was better friends with another woman or something stupid. I am so glad I don't participate in this stuff anymore!

I'm glad I stopped participating in this before I had kids, because I now never feel the compulsion to post photos of my kids or family events in order to, again, show how interesting and active we are. When I have the urge to share photos of my kids, I text them to friends and family who I think might actually be interested in, for instance, a pic of them in Halloween costumes or my DD at her ballet recital. I don't try to use my kids to project a personal brand of some kind, and I'm grateful for that.[/quote]

And then every single person tagged in the photo comments “such a fun night!!” one after another. Ugh, the worst.[/quote]

This was circa 2012 and I'm so glad people don't do this now and are probably mortified that they did in the past.[/quote]

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