Fakebook

Fakebook. That’s what they should call it. Facebook is all about putting up your best. Just like Katie Roiphe said, “teenagers’ Facebook pages seem fake and stilted and artificial.” If I disagreed, I would be lying. What is awesome about Facebook is also what is the very worst thing about it at the same time. You can literally make yourself look a certain way to be perceived by others. And with the way people spend their time on Facebook, hours and hours, it is definitely a different way of life. When I think of cliché posts, I think of people saying that they are going to go workout, when in reality, they are probably doing the exact same thing as me; sitting on the couch, eating. But it does not matter because the people that you are “friends” with on Facebook will never know what you do unless you post about it.

This very reason is why I think so many people in our generation (aka Gen. Y) have mixed feelings with where they are in life. People like to put up a front on Facebook. We will never know what is real and what is, in contrast, completely and entirely exaggerated or fictional. With this said, when people post about how great their life is, when in reality, it is  not like that at all, other people who see this become frustrated with where they are in life in comparison to where their Facebook friends are, when in reality, they are at the same point in life as you. They just make themselves look better. They refuse to share all the set backs in their life in order to make their life seem so much better, more interesting, and much more successful. This creates a longing for the rest of the people to be advancing in life more, which in turn, is a disaster zone for Generation Y. We expect to be where everyone else claims they are. It makes me wish Facebook did not exist. Maybe, we would all be much more happy with ourselves and where we are in our lives.