I've been thinking a lot about social media lately — about the fact that our generation lives on and for it.
It is impossible for most of the people I know to see, eat, feel... live anything without wondering how it might best be presented to everyone else.
The food you eat must look, not just taste, great. The outfits you wear must not feel, but look good. The places and things you see must not amaze and amuse you, but everyone else in your friend group.
The worst part about it is that very few of us have more than a couple of good friends on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or whatever else. Our lives now revolve around creating an image of ourselves for strangers.
"How will this make me seem?" is a question I'm sure millions of people across the world are asking themselves, and I have to wonder whether we have really stopped living for ourselves because of it.
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