The next time you scroll through social media, take a look. What are people posting? Let’s take some wild guesses: photos of their dogs, photos of their friends, photos of themselves by themselves.
Take a look at the captions, too. What are they saying? Some even *wilder* guesses: their opinions, their likes, dislikes, rants about things happening in their lives. Every time most of us post online, we’re just *dying* to tell everyone about the latest thing in our lives. We under this under the assumption that people genuinely cares about our opinion.We’re constantly preening ourselves, because we believe that everyone cares so much about us and our opinion(/s). Saying that out loud feels weird and wrong, doesn’t it?
Well then, I’m gonna say …show more content…
Social media is SOCIAL for a reason. If we are always thinking about how others view us, we are going to think about ourselves as the most important people in everyone’s life, we get trapped in this cycle of being obsessed with what others think about us. Of course they are a l w a y s thinking about us, what else do they have to do? In likewise, they think exactly the same of …show more content…
Don’t like, don’t comment, don’t respond to absolutely anything. Go fully dark. See how people react, if they react at all, that is. Does anyone notice, ask what's going on? Does anyone notice that you no longer provide them the tiniest slice of your time? See who does. At most, maybe 3 people will notice or care. Maybe the people who notice ARE your true friends.(Or maybe they’re just some creepy-ass stalkers.)The point is, what about the rest of your 500, your 1,000 followers?Are they people who truly value your opinion? Or do they also pay only the most flippant of attention towards you, as you do to
Take a look at the captions, too. What are they saying? Some even *wilder* guesses: their opinions, their likes, dislikes, rants about things happening in their lives. Every time most of us post online, we’re just *dying* to tell everyone about the latest thing in our lives. We under this under the assumption that people genuinely cares about our opinion.We’re constantly preening ourselves, because we believe that everyone cares so much about us and our opinion(/s). Saying that out loud feels weird and wrong, doesn’t it?
Well then, I’m gonna say …show more content…
Social media is SOCIAL for a reason. If we are always thinking about how others view us, we are going to think about ourselves as the most important people in everyone’s life, we get trapped in this cycle of being obsessed with what others think about us. Of course they are a l w a y s thinking about us, what else do they have to do? In likewise, they think exactly the same of …show more content…
Don’t like, don’t comment, don’t respond to absolutely anything. Go fully dark. See how people react, if they react at all, that is. Does anyone notice, ask what's going on? Does anyone notice that you no longer provide them the tiniest slice of your time? See who does. At most, maybe 3 people will notice or care. Maybe the people who notice ARE your true friends.(Or maybe they’re just some creepy-ass stalkers.)The point is, what about the rest of your 500, your 1,000 followers?Are they people who truly value your opinion? Or do they also pay only the most flippant of attention towards you, as you do to