A newly published study suggests the phenomenally popular social networking site may be skewing the way users perceive their lives. It finds those carefully selected photos of cheerful, contented people cumulatively convey a self-esteem-shattering message: Our lives are fantastic! What’s wrong with you?
You know there’s nothing wrong with you, right? I say we should all do the virtual world a favor and include more whine in our updates. I mean, when there’s something worth whining about. Otherwise, carry on with your bad, bragging self! It’s all good! Let’s just all remember that Facebook let’s people photoshop their lives and sometimes we need to live that photoshopped fantasy and sometimes we need to remember that it’s photoshop.
Lilian
/ January 13, 2012Thanks for posting this, Dawn! That’s why I just plain don’t like facebook (ironically, I just posted some gleaming, beautiful photos of our family two weeks ago there, taken in a studio and all
& I stick to blogging. And I do whine a lot in my blog, it’s “real life” all the time there. Boring and annoying. 
(hey, are you inching your way back into blogging a bit or are you just teasing us, faithful friends & fans — just kidding!)
Marie
/ February 2, 2012Ha. This is exactly why I limit my time on FB. Or as I like to call it, the place where all your friends tell you how much fun they are having without you.