All of that humblebragging and oversharing – and my obsessive checking of it – was driving me insane. Why did I stay so long?
Quite how insidiously some social media had altered my brain wasn’t apparent until I kicked the habit.
You could live your very best life on Facebook. Just as long as it wasn’t complete – or was, at best, the tip of a more complex reality, as human existence tends to be.The anomalous truth behind this was that, IRL, I liked these people and they knew and I knew – we all knew! – that this lifestyle PR of theirs was a veneer. A chimera that refracted and reshaped reality.I never posted much of note. Occasionally an article I’d written. Mostly though it was whimsical stuff about my dogs and city.
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