To feel jealous of Instagrammers lives!

[Redsed]

I've finally redecorating my awful living room and wanted some ideas. A friend suggested I look on Instagram for some ideas. I don't do social media at all and omg after a few days on it and scrolling on some home improvement accounts, I feel so low about my life!

The homes are beautiful, kitchen extensions are gorgeous, the women are beautiful, the husbands with great jobs, the kids look amazing. Then there's the lovely holidays, gifts, days out. It all looks so so perfect.

My life couldn't be more different. I feel so inadequate. I didn't expect to feel like this! Was just going on to get some paint / furniture ideas!

Please tell me I'm not the only one Luke this?!

Not exactly the same but I saw a quote that read ‘it’s not a perfect body if it’s a nightmare to maintain’…. You could exchange body with house/life.

I have a friend who is a ‘instagrammer/ interior designer. Her photos are AMAZING. Her real life, Is not.

she’s lovely though. And we laugh about the state of her house compared to her posted pics

An influencer I follow posted photos of her holiday, it looked glamorous but I recognised the location as the Parkdean resort I stayed at earlier in the year. When I look back at my own photos my life seems much more fun than it is.

So much of it is fake. Also, where children are exploited for producing content, a lot of it is seriously concerning. Look at some of the BS influencers promote. For example, a shocker of a German influencer who dresses up like some sort of Disney princess, promotes Saudi Arabia and constantly films her young son for content, despite him being non verbal and so unable to consent in anyway.

But people seek out these show home people, sure if people naturally see these things I get your point

But following influencers then complaining they are perfect is odd

@Redsed none of it is real. Ignore!

There is one particular instagrammer who goes on holiday every month or every two months and believes she is relatable and down to earth Gemma Markland The Markland Home

I had to stop following her as she's bad for my mental health. Her and Mrs Hinch.

Speaking of Mrs Hinch- the amount of chemicals in her home must be making their way into every cell of her body!

Perfectly said x

Not saying it isn't, but these lifestyle influencers are faking and selecting the highlights.
Exactly this.
There's a difference between:

• A non-influencer choosing to show a handful of nice things they've done and saying "we had a lovely day".

And

• an influencer who totally isn't fake and her account is totally real, except for when she is staging her content and she can't enjoy her friends singing happy birthday because the camera is running, so she runs around yelling about a video, and then makes her friends redo the moment to stage it and film it. There's definitely nothing fake about it though.

Really. Most of these people create narratives that aren't real. Those videos create nothing but hardship for teens who watch them and feel bad for someone's highlight reel. They compare their worst moments with someone's best moments.

It's been proven that it affects people's mental health negatively. No idea why I or anyone should be tolerant of scammers or people with no morals.

As most people on here say, it's not real. It's fake. They say hey you guys but they actually end up making feel their audience worse, most of whom were looking for some sort of guidance.

Before you go "Wow, really?", I said what I said, as did majority on here.

Go and follow @shabazsays instead