Do you ever feel a little inadequate from social media

[Watermelonsugarhii]

I don't care at all about him now but I saw the woman who a guy I was seeing left me for's Instagram (sorry that was a little long winded)
She's been to every continent, and basically to every famous site/landmark there is, Machu Picchu and so on.
So many pictures of her doing all these 'crazy' adventurous activities, ziplining, mountain climbing, and so on.
Apparently stayed in all these hostels and made 6 million friends.
I mean she's just an example, but has this ever made anyone feel a bit inadequate?
I've worked in 2 other countries and I'm going on my first ever trip to the US this year. I'm also dual nationality and have family in another European country.
I know it's not a case of how many countries you've visited, more what sense of adventure you have and how sociable you are, maybe.
I couldn't ever afford to go travelling for months on end, as I'm sure a lot of people couldn't.
You see it so much on OLD, everybody wants someone who 'loves travelling' 'the outdoors' 'adventurous' and so on. I'm not saying it's why the guy cheated on me, but he was clearly very impressed by her

Don't compare your life to what you see on social media. Just because this other woman has an exciting life travelling she might actually be really unhappy, lonely, have no job or she might be a horrible person! You can't tell that from a photo that's been edited. And as others have said, I now hide people, unfriend people or delete social media all together if it starts getting me down.

No, it doesn’t make me feel like that. I would never look up ex’s girlfriends as I’m simply not interested. I don’t even know what my DH’s exes look like. Why should I care about randoms that mean nothing to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

I really do feel that for some people, insta, Facebook, etc is like a form of self harm. Why would it even cross your mind to find your ex’s girlfriend online? Why would you want to hurt yourself like that? Scrub all of these nobodies from your radar.

Honestly, focus on making this life the best it possibly can be and you won’t care about randoms that don’t play any part in your current, brilliant life.

I agree it can make you feel like you're inadequate. I can't afford a holiday this year, i'm a single mum of one who works part time. Yet seeing all my work colleagues jet off to amazing places makes me feel like a bit of a failure. I try to avoid going on it if it's getting me down. It is however very useful to see people's behaviour on FB, as you can get a measure of what that person is like. The boasters always post about everything and I make a mental note to be careful around them in real life.

Just be very careful who you look at

It is alot of fakeness

I do not share much on it but when i do it always never ceases to amaze me who watches my stories first and within seconds - it is usually the people who are 'living their best life' and have multiple pictures of friends families holidays and adventours - so I think that says it all.

I thought I had loads of friends on social media but recently realised that these "friends" are not. Just randoms that I used to know.
So when i walked past a couple of these women in town neither of us acknowledged the other. I know, I know - me too.
So set about & deleted my SM accounts. Feel more at ease already without lots of memes & stuff filling up my phone