Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable

Re:Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable by k-mcgrady on Saturday May 06, 2017 @07:25PM (#14282866)

Interesting take on Instagram. I'm mid-20's and I find that I don't care at all how many likes I get on Instagram, I'm much more concerned with likes on Facebook. This is one reason I prefer Instagram. As most posts are by 'celebrities' rather than my actual friends I don't feel jealousy or other negative emotions when I see cool photos. I don't pay much attention to likes on Instagram at all actually. I've recently made the decision to delete Facebook from my phone. I find my main use of Facebook is photo sharing and I can do that through Instagram (and those can be sent to Facebook/Twitter automatically without me having to pay attention to those platforms too much). I haven't been doing this long but I've found a noticeable improvement in my happiness. I can't remember the last time I saw something really negative on Instagram, whereas on Facebook every public post is littered with horrible comments. Maybe that's it.

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Re:Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable by drunkkcunt on Sunday May 07, 2017 @09:22AM (#14285332)

You might not care about likes, but others do. As I said in my other post, people judge you and label you on how many likes/followers you get.

Instagram is really toxic.

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Re:Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable by k-mcgrady on Sunday May 07, 2017 @10:13AM (#14285541)

>> people judge you and label you on how many likes/followers you get

I would argue that they don't - you only think they do, and that's the real issue. Not judging as I've been in that mindset myself. I'm a pretty self-concious person but I truly don't think people our age care about likes. You mentioned being mid-20's which I also mentioned in my post in case this issue came up. I understand that children and teenagers care about likes (and I've seen articles with evidence to back that up) but I think by our age that's gone (or didn't ever really exist that strongly as we were too old by the time social media went super mainstream).

Edit: Thought you were the parent who mentioned they were mid-20's, just realised you are not the parent. Curious what age you are (roughly even, if you don't mind) as I think that has a lot of bearing on this conversation.

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