Re:How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself
by SmellTheGlove on Monday August 22, 2016 @08:33AM
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Right there's my problem. I don't have a Facebook account at all, and my Twitter account has been rotting idle for a few years now. All I really stay active with is LinkedIn, but I've been in the corporate world long enough to not really care where people are on the pyramid any longer. You're telling me I need to make a FB account to feel like shit about myself? :)
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Re:How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself
by WalterSear on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:26AM
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IMHO, the hypothesis that 'social media makes you compare yourself to others more', while true, is overblown. I'd hazard that the overreliance on college undergrads as study subjects may have something to do with it.
Re:How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself
by Practicality on Monday August 22, 2016 @10:05AM
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True. My Facebook feed has a lot of contacts from my high school class and believe me they don't make me feel inadequate. (Nothing against them, their highlights are just regular life) So it's all in who you are comparing to.