If your Facebook feed is anything like mine, it’s filled with crazy relatives ranting about the U.S. election, pictures of all your friends’ kids, and all sorts of other mindless content that gets scrolled past in lieu of doing actual work.
Among all of those shared memes are pictures of your friends spending money. A lot of money.
Every vacation gets immortalized on Facebook, complete with dozens of pictures. The comments underneath are filled with jealousy and envy. After seeing the third family go to Disneyland or a beautiful beach in Mexico, we’ve decided we want to go too.
It’s the same thing with cars, boats, or other extravagant purchases. I even know a family that hires a professional photographer once a year to take pictures of everyone. Those pictures always end up on Facebook and the family looks terrific. That can’t be cheap.
We often forget that people are posting the best version of themselves on social media. Nobody is posting pictures of that time they ate ice cream for dinner while not wearing pants.
And then there’s the time wasting aspect of it. I’ve spent too many hours scrolling mindlessly through both Facebook and Twitter feeds, time that would have been far better spent on just about anything.
To counteract this, I deleted Facebook on my phone. I found it was too easy to use there, causing me to both waste time and be envious of my friends. Perhaps you should do so too.
