Healthy Ways to Use IG

Social media is weird. It feels like we all have this bizarre, adversarial love-hate relationship with it.

We love to post. We love the likes, we love to check in and see what our friends are up to…but we also can’t help but hate it.

We hate the desperation for likes; we hate how it makes us feel; we hate the picture-perfect lives other people seem to have.

We can’t seem to crack it. We want to unplug and appreciate the “now,” but we also want to feel included in what’s going on in the world.

We want to show off our lives to our friends when we feel that ours are empty and not good enough.

Is it just me, or does it feel like this brand new social media phenomenon is short-circuiting our brains? What is it doing to us? 

This is a comparison culture. It’s pervasive, it’s intense, and it’s backing us into a corner. It keeps us stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Do we contribute, or do we unplug?

Do…