Why Men Should Stop Following Hot Women On Instagram
We've all done it, you see a random photo of a beautiful girl on instagram, you decide to follow her. Suddenly you get recommended another profile - wow she's stunning! Another follow... and another
Now for the next 6-12 months every time you open instagram, you see her photos... Give it a like, maybe follow a few more.
This is so harmless right?
I don't think so. Here's why men should unfollow every single random "instagram model."
1. WASTE OF TIME & ATTENTION
The two most important things in life is how you spend your time and what you give your attention to. Attention is very limited & people seem to forget that when you give something attention you're inversely denying attention from other things. You can't look at the sky & the ground at the same time.
Following women on instagram you will never meet, never learn anything from, won't inspire you to do anything is a big fat waste of your time.
It's also pretty cringe when you think about it - you're a fucking grown man and you're spending your time gawking at women on the internet. Grow up.
Would you go to a restaurant and stare at food when you're hungry?
2. IT'S A BIG SCAM ANYWAY
Most of these girls not only use massive filters, but even use apps that literally warp the shape of their body & face. The images they are showing are not even *remotely* close to the reality.
This phenomenon is so common there's an entire subreddit dedicated to documenting it. Spend a few hours on here and see what i'm talking about. https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/top/
I've even met girls who did this right in front of me! One girl warped her stomach to look smaller, made her legs smaller, slapped on a filter - it was insane.
3. BAD FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH
When you spend so much time looking at fake & filtered Instagram women, you end up comparing girls in your life with them. You scroll through the profile of that girl you met last week, then scroll down to "random hot girl" and it just is impossible not to compare them.
It's a natural human tendency to compare. We compare ourselves to others, and we compare what we have to others. As men, it's impossible not to compare women to each other, or compare what women we've dated with our friends. When you spend a lot of time following women who's beauty is impossible to actually have in real life due to filters & body warping apps, it's going to make us falsey think the women in our life are not as beautiful as they really are.
Also this probably won't apply to most guys, but me personally - if I see a girl who's really attractive to me and I don't make some kind of effort to meet her, I get this anxiety about it. It's this unsettling feeling of not trying. This same thing happens if I see a girl I want to meet in real life & don't approach - this dark feeling hits the pit of my stomach knowing I did not at least try.
Overall I think men don't think of the small effects following dozens of impossibly beautiful women has on their mental health because most guys do it.
4. FOLLOW PEOPLE & PROFILES WHO INSPIRE YOU
Your mind is like a garden, and the way you feed that garden is by what you give your attention to. Your mood, feelings, thoughts & attitudes can be shaped by what we consume on social media.
If you spent all day watching animal cruelty videos, you'll likely to be in a different mood than if you spent all day watching inspirational lectures.
Instagram is something some of us open multiple times a day, we give it our attention so why not make an effort to follow profiles which inspire us, teach us something or motivate us?
If you're into photography, follow photographers, or artists, or camera tips profiles.
If you want to be successful in real estate, follow some real estate personalities, or business people.
If you someday want to travel, follow digital nomads, travel bloggers, or pages dedicated to beautiful travel photography.
Following CherryLala99 with the 700cc fake tits who went to Dubai last week teaches you nothing. She doesn't inspire you to achieve anything. She just posts cute highly filtered photos of herself in the mirror.
Unfollow CherryLala99 - instead follow me https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntertravel/
What does the Bitcoin Cash community look like to a newbie? My honest feedback
So I'm totally new to the Bitcoin world (less than 6 months) and I wanted to give the Bitcoin Cash community some feedback from the perspective of someone who's new to all of this stuff.
I'm not an expert on cryptocurrency but I do know a few things about marketing & sales, and there's a few things the Bitcoin Cash community does/says that is **not helping the mission of "peer to peer electronic cash for the world"**
**1. Stop saying bad things about BTC**
People who are new don't know enough yet to understand or even care what you have to say about BTC - **all they will hear is "Bitcoin is bad"** which will push people away since to most new people "bitcoin" is synonymous with cryptocurrency.
Think of it like this - let's say your **65 year old Mom** wants to buy her first computer, she knows absolutely nothing about computers but wants to learn. If the first thing you do when she tells you she wants to buy a computer is go on a long RANT about why "Windows 10 sucks" because the "latest patch includes a buggy version of Java" she's going to get scared and confused. She has no idea what you're even saying, all she knows is you're saying something is BAD and that makes her FEEL BAD. People who feel bad, scared & confused are less likely to try something new.
The goal should be to educate people, get them interested, show them what makes this stuff really cool - if that means helping your friend buy some BTC then do it! Instead of telling him why BTC is bad, tell him why BCH is good & let him play with both.
**2. Embrace the term BCASH**
I once onboarded this bar owner here in bangkok and watched him teach his staff how to start accepting Bitcoin Cash - during this short employee training he called Bitcoin Cash "**Bitcash**" https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/dha9gg/bar_owner_overhears_me_talking_about_bitcoincash/
Why? Because saying "Bitcoin Cash" is 3 syllables and kinda hard to say.
This is why people say "Shouldn't" instead of "Should not" - and fighting this normal human tendency to gravitate towards the easiest simplest way of speaking is a losing battle. Let people say bcash, don't get upset over something this trivial.
People who are brand new to this don't know the nefarious history of the term, they don't care, they just want to say what's easiest to say.
Instead of fighting "Bcash" just turn it into a meme, make it funny & most importantly don't let new people see you getting upset over something this small.
**3. Focus on building not fighting**
Some random BTC guy on twitter said something stupid? New people don't care.
You got blocked by a BTC guy? New people don't care.
Your post was deleted from r/bitcoin? New people don't care.
Focus more on the POSITIVE things, spend more time MAKING something cool than talking badly about BTC or people. When a community spends most of it's time talking badly about people and projects it does not help your community.
Show people that cool app you found, that coin swapping service, the crypto debit card, the website you found that let's you book hotels with BCH - that's what get's people excited - not posting negativity.
https://youtu.be/tuZGBVXu9_o
BTC is often the first thing many of us use, spend, earn or buy - and what's good for BTC is good for BCH since it means more people are entering the ecosystem of cryptocurrency. People will find out on their own that BTC fees are high and transactions are slow, when this happens they will discover BCH... That's what happend to me, and it will probably happen to them.
I'm a YouTuber thinking of doing a video featuring read.cash, does this even work?
Hey guys, my name is David Bond and I have a YouTube channel... https://youtu.be/VymgAMqiTz0
I'm going to make a video on cypto and making a list of awesome things you can do with and on cypto and **I'm thinking of including read.cash in that list.**
I'm extremely impressed with how creative & positive the Bitcoin Cash community and am especially impressed with how many neat websites & tools are made on top of BCH.
Anyway, the purpose of this post is to see how much engagement there is here.
If you're a human, leave a comment or something lol.
ps. here's proof this is the real me https://www.youtube.com/post/UgzkTD1cUfBB_kgaBvZ4AaABCQ
@DavidBond