Challenge Accepted
There are so many ways to share what we are up to these days. We don't have to email a picture to so and so, we can just post it and all our friends and friends of friends can see it. In many ways this is awesome. It's so much easier just to share and know that all those people who are family or may as well be (you know who you are) can feel that much closer to being in my life. And the other way around, I get to see the moments you choose to share. Win-win.
However I was recently having a convo with a friend about the more serious side of all this sharing and it really made me think. It was discussed that sharing is wonderful but what do people choose to share? Well no one likes to post an unflattering pic, so typically pictures you look good in, pictures showing off what awesome things you do or did.
And I thought, how interesting, especially for us girls, who habitually compare each other out the wazoo!
"If a not-a-movie-star can look so stunning what is wrong with me?!?"
"Why does she look that thin/tan/fashionable?"
Which is incredibly insecure but if we are honest, ladies, we all struggle with the comparison thing to a degree.
So am I saying Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc are bad and shouldn't be used to share what you are up to? Not at all...
What I felt challenged by, after my discussion, was to really think about the why part of what I was posting.
Am I doing it for attention?
Am I doing it to make myself look amazing?
Am I being real?
Am I being sensitive to others?
I was blown away with people responses when I have posted messes and tough days and how thankful they were to see that I don't have it all together because I am so guilty of posting that my life is together, and it's sooo not. (I love my life but oh man...)
Happy perky positive energetic smiling Julia is not always this way (ha, just ask Nik!) Not that posting should be a Debbie Downer complain sesh either. Finding that balance is key.
So I guess my challenge is stop before you post, and think about why you are posting another selfie, or check the why you are posting.
I am the first one to encourage people to post pictures and statuses so I can keep up, but maybe we are reaching for a little too much self-praise when our statuses are primarily how much we work out, do good things and how awesome we are.
In short, stop the bragging and keep on with the sharing. Take pics of the sunset without your face in it. Lets take pics of our messes. Lets share some real.
A challenge, from yours truly.
(Ooo. Fancy-shmancy.
Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone)
However I was recently having a convo with a friend about the more serious side of all this sharing and it really made me think. It was discussed that sharing is wonderful but what do people choose to share? Well no one likes to post an unflattering pic, so typically pictures you look good in, pictures showing off what awesome things you do or did.
And I thought, how interesting, especially for us girls, who habitually compare each other out the wazoo!
"If a not-a-movie-star can look so stunning what is wrong with me?!?"
"Why does she look that thin/tan/fashionable?"
Which is incredibly insecure but if we are honest, ladies, we all struggle with the comparison thing to a degree.
So am I saying Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc are bad and shouldn't be used to share what you are up to? Not at all...
What I felt challenged by, after my discussion, was to really think about the why part of what I was posting.
Am I doing it for attention?
Am I doing it to make myself look amazing?
Am I being real?
Am I being sensitive to others?
I was blown away with people responses when I have posted messes and tough days and how thankful they were to see that I don't have it all together because I am so guilty of posting that my life is together, and it's sooo not. (I love my life but oh man...)
Happy perky positive energetic smiling Julia is not always this way (ha, just ask Nik!) Not that posting should be a Debbie Downer complain sesh either. Finding that balance is key.
So I guess my challenge is stop before you post, and think about why you are posting another selfie, or check the why you are posting.
I am the first one to encourage people to post pictures and statuses so I can keep up, but maybe we are reaching for a little too much self-praise when our statuses are primarily how much we work out, do good things and how awesome we are.
In short, stop the bragging and keep on with the sharing. Take pics of the sunset without your face in it. Lets take pics of our messes. Lets share some real.
A challenge, from yours truly.
(Ooo. Fancy-shmancy.
Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone)
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