Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life

all. But that’s how I pay my bills, and you have to respect the work as much as the rewards.

It might look like you’re busy and important as you flip between devices, but the reality is that you’re not. You’re inattentive, less productive, and driving yourself round the bend trying to split your focus in too many directions.

So the identity you formulate online actually becomes your personal key into this matrix.

But that’s the trade-off – I’d prefer to earn less, be my own boss and have control over my time.

I realised how complicit I was in the mass glamorization of our lives; it started to make me feel really culpable.

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

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

If you google “The postpartum body”

Stop making presumptions about other people’s finances