All It Is, Is Fakebook

I keep going through the same routine with my friends when we hang out. Even when we are watching TV, we end up on our phones because we get bored. Trying to go to sleep, we are on Facebook. What we end up doing, ends up a status on Facebook. It's like our lives are intertwined with social media. Some of the issues with social media today is that it ruins relationships, brings down ones self-esteem, and that Facebook is very addicting.

Don't get me wrong, I use Facebook too and I'm not totally against social media, but I don't think people need to base their life around it. Social media just causes more stress and heartache because there is a fake idea of “perfection,” impacts relationships in negative ways, and brings down one’s self-esteem. People see things that make them feel worse about their own life. It makes someone feel like people live a better life than them; while they scroll through the news feed.

We post all the beautiful things in life; we don't show what happens behind the scenes. Like the adorable couple pictures everyone wants together, but it doesn't show the fights they get in or the day to day issues, like a girl that tries to come in between the relationship. The beautiful houses we own, but not the bad relationships with our parents we have. The gourmet meal we

eat, but not the bill of how much it costs. People will show all the wonderful things to rub it in others’ faces. I feel like Facebook is just a big competition on who has the best life. All we want to post is the perfect things in our life but not what we actually go through; like the pain we suffer. They just try to make people see what a wonderful life they have and to make the other’s jealous.

“In 2011, there was a study to see approximately how many active Facebook users were active any given day and there are approximately 500,000,000 active users. One in every thirteen people are online. Also 48% of 18 to 34 year olds check their Facebook when they wake up.” These statistics are from Tech Addiction, that believe people are on the internet way too much and don’t spend enough time outside. (Conrad, 2011) So many people will do anything to post the most perfect thing they have. They will put others down to show they are "better" than someone else; by doing this they bring down one’s self-esteem. You might have nicer things but that doesn't create the type of human being you are inside; because in reality everyone is equal. Just by posting the most perfect life on Facebook, doesn't mean you have such a great life. People want to post it just to make others look at how great their life seems; because other people’s fun, beautiful, or glamorous things, for some reason gets under our skin. It makes us want the stuff we see and don’t have, it also makes us feel like our life is not as amazing as someone else’s we see.

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