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shortfatbalduglyman
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27 Mar 2025, 7:50 pm

been looking up former coworkers, classmates, and et cetera on facebook and linked in.

some of them look so happy and successful.

i need to stop looking them up.

i'm alone in my house with nothing to do, but i have to do something besides looking up former acquaintenances.

jealous

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28 Mar 2025, 5:29 pm

Yeah, stop that immediately.

None of those sites show the reality of a person's life, just the bits they want other people to see.


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28 Mar 2025, 5:40 pm

Yeah, as DHB implies - you are likely seeing a very curated version of a persons life, however successful (or not) a person is on such a social media website.