I wish our life is like facebook.
I wish our life has no filter.
People nowadays are too obsessed with social media & their phones. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter... you name it.
How many of these posts or photos on social media are reflected? From a psychological point of view, social media is projecting an "ideal self" of users. Ideal in a way that you will touch up your photo, always uploading travel photos & being a foodie... some might upload pictures of some trivial side like taking medicine, or staying in hospital... in which they treat social media as a way of drawing public attention or a record of their life. Sadly I do not get that behavior.
Anyhow, ultimately people tend to twist a bit of their life when they upload those photos - high contrast/tone up / make it colorful... most importantly, beautify effect! It gives better-quality photos after applying the filter. It's like giving a different mood. Sometimes even a different look than your real self. After we applied those filters, there's a new projection or mood. It's like giving you a fantasy in your life. How much true color yourself you are willing to share with others after we apply those filters?
I wonder if we can live in a world where there's no filter. Just enjoying a disconnected & non-filtered human life, can we? My experience of traveling abroad without a smartphone is way more happy & relaxing. That's the true life without filter, without caring what others think about you - reflecting the "true self". Plus if we don't blur and touch up the photo, it's way more natural and real. Sometimes blurriness can be moody but still not reflect the true side of yourself.
Try to upload raw pictures or disconnect yourself today.
That's the way it is - detox in social media!
No filter, no mask, no covering.
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The Psychology Of Social Media: How Our Online Lives Are Harming Real-Life Happiness
