"You only see the highlights online"

The day before I took the bus home for winter break (first year at University of Wisconsin Madison, freshman). 17th December, 2024. Added 16th January, 2025.

I've heard the argument that social media is toxic because it makes everybody's lives look perfect, flawless, with no troubles whatsoever. So then when you compare to that, well, it's easy to feel...bad.

Kind-of but also nah, it depends on the person. Like on this blog, I share a lot of tough things, problems. That doesn't sound so flawless.

I think that some people represent themselves the way that they are, things the way that they are...

If you make the argument that you can never be inside somebody's head well yeah...you'll never actually know their struggles.

But given social media or not, we wouldn't be able to do that either way.

And people who say they want to be inside somebody's head, aka, read people's minds, actually, why in the world would you want to do that?