A Series of Old FB Posts

In the spirit of me responding to things no one asked me about I want to talk about the idea that everybody's putting up phony happiness on their social media. It occurs to me that since the beginning of memory making, most photographs taken are of happy times. Back in the day you wouldn't really go through a photo album of someone else's and see photos of EVERYTHING that ever happened in their lives; usually people are taking photographs of good times, happy times, events and celebratory occasions. So it strikes me that the perceptions of what people put on social media so often include the idea that people are just being fake about their happiness. Of course some people may be doing that, but on the whole the beholder is who makes the assumptions, right? If I had a good time with friends of mine and took photos and posted them that is in no way saying "look how great my life is" That is merely me showing what a good time we had this one time at this occasion where I took these pictures. It might be incumbent upon us to stop thinking beyond that regarding any kind of message someone's trying to send about their happy existence. Then maybe the psychological distress of social media might decrease a little. If we stop assuming people are trying to convince us that their worlds are perfect then we won't feel the pressure of trying to compete or compare ourselves or having sad supposed realizations about how not happy our lives may be. Everybody's going through stuff all the time. Everybody has ups and downs. Everybody's living all kinds of lives and people take pictures of happy times and then they share them and I think that's really all that is.