Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life

In the 1920s, parenting experts counselled to never hug or kiss your children, and in the 1950s pregnant women were encouraged to smoke. So, you know, there’s a precedence for at least a margin of error.

democratization of the types of men and women we see in aspirational positions.

Each and every fault can be erased and replaced with new and increasingly homogenous upgrades to make you feel like the very best version of yourself

It’s so easy to think, ‘she’s glowing’, or ‘she obviously got pregnant on her first try’. We can very quickly persuade ourselves that she never struggled.

Women on Instagram that you don’t know aren’t any different from a stranger on the street. She may have had a stillbirth. She may have spent $100,000 on fertility treatment to get her child. She may have had an egg donor. We don’t know anything. When we see these images on social media, it tends to stir feelings that everybody else’s life is perfec

story entitled “The Goddess Myth”, most of the women surveyed said a natural birth was extremely or very important, yet 43 per cent ended up needing drugs or an epidural, and 22 per cent had unplanned C-sections. Is it any wonder they might feel as if they’d failed?

The hypocrisy is stunning – all sorts of sexually charged images of girls in bikinis revealing their derrieres and hoicked-up cleavages are fine, but a woman feeding her child in the most nonsexual setting possible is somehow unacceptable.

Now I’m back working for myself again, life isn’t straightforward; I feel a huge amount of angst about money, which a secure salary would mitigate.

Instead of diversity and originality, what the majority of people on social media appear to want is more of the same. Conformity is rewarded by both the community and the system – what we “like” most drives the algorithms, which in turn feed us more indistinguishable content which we happily consume.