captain-olimar replied to your post “don’t get me wrong, i love social media and dislike every article...”
like even socially though? social media is such an outlet to like Be Ourselves and say Our Thoughts like behind the comfort of a smart device or something and like? i know so many times i freak out thinking am i fake? i'm not Exactly like i am online i can never be That Funny in person and when i meet new people who see me online i get so scared thinking i'm gonna disappoint everyone!! because i'm not constantly spewing out memes irl or talking as much
ABSOLUTELY! i struggle with this too! i’m very afraid of meeting people off here because i feel like im gonna disappoint them..
like on tumblr for example, i feel free to post stream of consciousness type of things and not filter myself like i do on other sites. and since we’re writing we can think about what we’re saying more, edit it, make super funny jokes, etc. i’m like an ideal version of myself in a way. but besides my very close friends i do not give people IRL my tumblr ever. so is that fake? am i fake on other sites where i vet myself? idk.. i think of it as other watered down versions of myself. so i don’t think we’re being fake, we’re just presenting incomplete versions of ourselves.
i just wish it was more of a topic of conversation among our age group. like to have a collective understanding that people aren’t the same in real life the way they are online. we’d prob all be better off and have less anxiety u kno!
