For various reasons I won’t go into, I’m currently socially isolated and struggling at work (and in general), and every time I log in to social media I feel like I see someone who has got another career accolade or is being praised and loved by all their followers (sometimes both). Not to mention the people who somehow have thousands of followers while I have tens. It makes me feel absolutely terrible.
I know everyone feels like this to an extent, and I know the way social media makes you constantly compare and despair is a good reason to come off it. But as I’m socially isolated anyway, it does sort of feel like coming off will leave me even more socially disconnected, and it has career implications too as a lot of people do use it to promote their work and themselves. What do you do? How would you handle this?
YABU - suck it up, and work on yourself so you have more things to boast about on social media like everybody else
YANBU - leave and don’t look back