facebook perfect lives

We are so consumed, as a society, to appear to 'have it all'.

We are driven, fashion conscience, wealthy, healthy, happy and to top it all off...excited about sharing it with the rest of the world.

Normally, this would be a good thing, as it wouldn't be blatantly done to the extreme.

It would be a private matter shared with family and friends, on the phone, via email or at gatherings with loved ones.

Instead, with the change in social media, we see it every minute updated on facebook.

Live news feeds, status updates, 'liking' and commenting, instant messenger and other 'faceyfeatures' make it nearly impossible to go seconds without hearing about someone's 'happiness'.

But is it genuine?

Or are we busy creating facebook perfect lives so that everyone else is aware just how good you've got it?

I often wonder how much of it is truth, or if they are posting it to make themselves believe it, bored or even trying to prove to others that their life is really, so much better then everyone else's.

Do you ever see people saying how it really is? For example:

Today I'm feeling sad and don't feel like getting out of bed... no idea why. Thanks emotions.

My ovaries and uterus appear to be strangling each other, so now I look bloated and pregnant even though I'm not. Great.

Or even, my boyfriend has got PMS worse then I do, what's with that?

None of these humours, yet honest and refreshing comments are ever seen.

Why is that? Because it might, God forbid, show people that life is not always grand?

Yet I think it would create the opposite effect - it would reassure people that's it is NORMAL to not have perfection 24/7. NORMAL to feel a little lost or low. NORMAL to worry about money and where it's going to come from next month with no work. NORMAL to realise that we sometimes, don't have it all.

So stop with the bullshit and the 'creating' of great lives on facebook.

Live your lives with all that comes with it - and don't feel the need to conform to the 'update' of things that you think other people would find interesting.