Living the Facebook Life

People have often complained that the biggest problem with sites like Facebook are that people are not genuine on them. They always act like everything is wonderful, while you sit around and wonder why your life is such a failure in comparison.

But what happens when real life starts to mimic social media? When you only share the good things about yourself, so that everyone has a certain perception of you, who you are, and how you treat other people? But they never get to see the other uglier side, which you reserve exclusively for family? And then these people tell me how lucky I am to have a so-and-so like that, because they’re so amazing. While I'm wondering if we're talking about the same person.

I call this phenomenon, “Living the Facebook Life.” Because perception is not reality…even if the subject at the middle of it believes it too.