Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life

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.

You just can’t buy contentment, no matter what it might look like when you scroll through your feeds.

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

just like any other businessmen, only dressed up in sweatpants and logo tees.

But by only presenting half of the story – the rewards without the strife – something which social media explicitly and implicitly encourages, we are all misrepresenting the expectations for both our peers and younger women looking at our lives.

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.

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.

As the curated imagery of social media has become more and more prominent, the space devoted to real-life issues and collective empathy around life’s challenges, both extraordinary and universal, has diminished.