Social Media Envy: What is it?

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Date: April 9, 2022 (Saturday)

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Social Media is a big thing ever since the rise of technology came in. Through social media, people can connect with their friends, loved ones, or even make friends with strangers wherever they are in the world. Communication and sharing of information is a piece of cake these days. People can connect with anyone in real time as long as the other people have an internet connection and a device to use.

Not to mention, living in an era where anyone can share whatever spins and turns that happens in their lives for free is astounding. In just a click, all the information or events that people wanted to share online will be shown to the world. They can post pictures and videos, and even share our thoughts on certain matters. Whatever that pops up in their minds can be shared as long as they want to to.

However, despite the fact that social media is a useful platform to connect and share information to people, it can also create a negative energy towards the feeling of each one. It can bring up insecurities that was supposed to be asleep as of the moment. It can make anyone feel inferior of themselves after scrolling through social media. It can make anyone upset their stomach after seeing the life updates of their colleagues, friends and even families. They can develop a sense of social media envy.

What is Social Media Envy?

Social Media Envy is a feeling that is formed after watching or hearing positive life updates from anyone in social media. It can happen when people will become envious on the lives of other people. It can make them feel inferior or sad instead of being happy on other people's achievements.

Social Media Envy may be a common thing, but it can yield to a lot of negative things that's why this should not be taken for granted with.

It Will Make You Feel Bad About Yourself

The feeling of envy that's created from within is caused by comparing the life that you have to the life of other people. With this thought in mind, you feel like you're not good enough in this world or you will never succeed in life. With the success that others have reached so far, you tend to question your potential if you can be like them or you can reach your goals in mind. You tend to think of negative things that make you feel down or make you feel upset about. You will then overthink things, questioning your worth, or question the path that you're journeying with. Having said that, it will make you feel bad about yourself as well as your chaotic and jealousy.

There was a song from Olivia Rodrigo entitled,"Jealousy, Jealousy" and it speaks so much about Social Envy. There's a line from the song which anyone could relate especially those who are experiencing envy in their hearts and it says that she's so sick of herself and she'd rather be anyone else as jealousy is following her.

Important Thing to Remember

It's not easy to feel envy towards people especially in social media. It's so easy to compare yourself to others and how much you wanted to have the life that they have. Howbeit, you need to remember this thing before diving and soaking yourself towards that feeling.

People don't post their struggles in Social Media

If you ever think that people have all the rainbows and butterflies in their lives because of the perfect life updates that they have posted, then you should try tweaking your mind towards a different angle.

Social Media is a platform wherein a lot of people can see a lot of things in your life especially the ones that you posted. With that, people tend to post only the great ones that are happening in their lives. They want to show to people that their life is perfect even though at the back of it, there are still a lot of mishaps that's going on.

You see, life is not all about a straight and nicely furnish road ahead, there are a lot of bumps along the way especially when we journey towards our goals in life. With that, don't be blinded with the sharing that other people have shown you. Don't you ever think that you want to have the life of others as you saw in their social media accounts that their lives are perfect. Your life is as wonderful as them. Don't you ever compare the season that you have to the season of other people. You have your own life, you have your own time, you have your own book that God has written for you.

Above all, don't you ever forget that you are a gem, a work in progress, so don't you ever abuse yourself by indulging through envy. And if you ever feel like creating an envy in your heart, try to channel your thoughts that will distract you to that feeling. Again, never tolerate Social Media Envy in your life; be happy for other people instead and be grateful for every blessing that God has given you.


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Obviously everyone would like to show their positive side, no one would post about their dark side. That's why I better , love to write about myself at read.cash instead of making all those things (tiktok, snack etc)

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2 years ago

You're right my friend. It's really easy to compare ourselves to others and it's make us look down to ourself. But we just need to focus on ourself, embrace every flaws we had because we are not perfect.

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2 years ago

This is one of the reason why it is better to dtay away from social media or stop spending so much time on it. People usually post good stuff about their lives and sometimes we can't help but compare it to our own which will eventually give us negative thoughts and energy that can be a threat to our mental health.

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2 years ago

I agree my friend marg, comparison is such a suffocating thing, but we can't help to compare ourselves to others sometimes. To avoid stress, it's better to stay in social media less.

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2 years ago

It is very important that we can connect with each other only and there is nothing bad about that, even though people envy sometimes, sometimes all they can see is just fake fames

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2 years ago

Sometimes guilty of it, especially when I saw how successful they were at my age but look at me now , I'm too far from it. hehhehe but anyway, sometimes I use it as my motivation too

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2 years ago

I love the part where you said people do not post about their struggles, in fact, they don´t post their failures. This is why we must be careful to see only the good side of another person and not see it in another angle, thereby thinking less of ourselves. It´s risky and can make us have bad thoughts about ourselves, making us less grateful for what we have.

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2 years ago

Social media with all its pros has its cons too. It is up to us to control its effect on us. By steering clear of the negatives

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2 years ago

Actually envy occurs because of an excessive response, if we take it for granted eating will not happen envy

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2 years ago

Friend, social media is really important in our lives because through it we will have communications with our other friends and important people in our lives.

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2 years ago

I just simply don't use much social media because of this and other things. Because too seeing the same thing will at some point of time trigger your weak zone and bam there comes stress and comparison. Want a stress free life nowadays, use less social media. Social media life is too perfect and we get intimated by it and expect more from others and even ourselves.

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2 years ago

Indeed my friend, social media feeds a negative energy in our minds especially when we keep seeing achievements from others, but there we are in the corner feeling helpless.

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2 years ago

Before I was like posting my whole life in a social media, but then I realized that it was not good, that is why I deleted all those post that I made..

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2 years ago

I agree to you my friend Dawn, I used to post every update of my life in social media as well before. But I realized it's not worth it, so I stay quiet even until now.

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2 years ago

Yes friend hehe, I can use my grinding here than to stay in a social media platform

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2 years ago

I agree, less stress, plus interacting with supportive people is a wonderful feeling.

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