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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of this can be summed up as "know your audience."

I think if you are on social media mostly with people at your same SES level, the travel pics can simply be a way of sharing what you are up to and yes, a good way to get ideas for where to go. This especially applies if you are relatively high SES, most of your contacts are too, and you are mostly just connected to friends and family on social media. It's a somewhat closed setting where everyone is mostly on the same page and if people in this setup are competitive or jealous about it, that really on them.

But some people have much larger and more diverse social media networks, use Facebook and Instagram for work networking, connect to neighbors and other families at a diverse public schools etc. I think if you do this, you have to edit your posts a big more and consider that many of the people who view your posts might not have the same opportunities to travel. It's just practical. You might think your best friends and school classmates will be delighted to see your trip to Patagonia or Tahiti or whatever. But your kid's classmates parents who are scraping by just to afford a rental IB for your good public school will likely be less enthusiastic about it. It's not a personal failing if they experience jealousy or resentment in that situation. And yes, they can always just mute you if it bothers them. But you could also just have some self-awareness.

As a general rule, I think it's obnoxious to share a lot of info about travel or other conspicuous consumption with people who don't have as much money as you. It doesn't mean hide it, but maybe don't detail all the very expensive restaurants you went to or hotels you stayed at or namecheck the very high end cruise company or whatever. I have seen people do these things in "mixed company" if you will, and I think it's tacky. And I say that as someone pretty well off who travels a lot.

Know your audience.[/quote]

That’s a rather paternalistic and judgmental view based on assumptions.

I’m not rich, but I allocate a big percentage of my resources to travel.

I have friends and family who have less disposable income than I do, yet they take nice vacations (and post).

Interestingly, some of my more affluent friends and family rarely travel and have made snide remarks about how nice it must be to travel. Some have invested their disposable income in nice houses/things, private school, etc. or are likely prioritizing things like organic everything or saving for retirement. Others have vacation homes but don’t really travel elsewhere.

Instead of making assumptions of your audience, why not simply recognize social media for what it is? I post travel pics without text. Just pics. No clue what else I would post beyond pics every now and then. [/quote]

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