I haven't had very good experiences on FB. I'm an adult woman and it has really knocked my self esteem. I feel really stupid to even admit this, but it really hit on social insecurities and feelings of not belonging.
I had a very unstable childhood and adolescence so making friends was always a bit tricky. It was not until uni that I managed to keep a group of friends for a longer period of time. However, I emigrated soon afterwards so the contact became more difficult, even though we live in the era of instant communications.
My family is also very fractured so I never felt too comfortable to have certain cousins or be contacted by my in laws or other family members.
Anyway, when my birthdays came, I would get one or two birthday wishes whereas I had to see how other people got hundreds! Even from people who were "in the real world" closer to me than to them. Even some of my friends would wish my partner happy birthday on FB and not me!
I know this all sounds so ridiculous on paper but I kept asking why. Why couldn't/wouldn't my so called friends show more love and affection towards me on that site? I even had a couple of people never accepting my friends' requests!
As it was getting excruciatingly painful to feel so ignored and disengaged from it all, I finally deleted my account.
Only about one or two people of the hundreds in there emailed me to keep in touch. Others, I kept in touch because I see in real life.
It really made me question the quality of my so called friends. Something I never thought I had to question. I felt so hurt and ignored but also so stupid for caring about my image on social media.
Whenever I see other friends showing me stuff on FB, I feel so down. It's like I couldn't even keep up the whole "happy show" going. It was so painful to see I had to go.
Has anybody felt this way about FB?
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Margo3791 · 05/09/2016 17:43
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