>> "Really, it sounds like you just know a lot of unpleasant people."
Feeling guilt, anger, and envy reading a social network sounds like a personal problem and not entirely the fault of the people posting updates.
Feeling guilt, anger, and envy reading a social network sounds like a personal problem and not entirely the fault of the people posting updates.
You may argue that the above is merely a cynical point of view (Or that the author just has emotional issues), but you risk missing the opportunity to (attempt to) objectively think about what motivates people/yourself to post on social networks with such wide audiences.
The emotions I felt when reading my facebook news feed were not the same emotions I had when hanging out with these people in real life.
Before I called it quits I found myself hiding and deleting people because of the things they were willing to say and do on Facebook that they would never say or do in-person.
So, maybe it was a personal problem for me too. But the solution was to get rid of the medium.
I don't agree. On facebook you see idealized lives of others and it can be pretty depressing. You see others going on vacation but you don't see them fighting with relatives ( ok, I see that, it just annoys me) and you can start thinking that their lives are better than yours.
I don't know if this is an accurate source, but I think this can be a problem for not so (mentally) stable people: (They could suffer from this without facebook too, but the dose on facebook is much bigger than in a close friend circle.)
http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/2011/moreno20... - FEELING BAD ON FACEBOOK: DEPRESSION DISCLOSURES BY COLLEGE STUDENTS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE
I'm very sorry that you feel this way, but if you feel depressed for other peoples idealized lives, you have a problem that has nothing to do with your friends or Facebook.