thepuppyclub:

The best advice I could give to the young girls for whom social media is a part of their daily life is that it is necessary to stop trying to find themselves through their feed. Stop taking elaborate selfies. Stop using filters that change your facial structure and your skin tone. Stop putting on makeup just for the sake of taking a picture. Stop trying out different angles. Stop faking confidence to curate an aloof online personality. Stop waiting for likes and comments to temporarily make you feel better. It really isn’t worth it, and all it does is create an alternate version of yourself that you can only attain at the price of meticulous efforts, which ultimately shatters your sense of self and places you between a fantasized, but not less real, you on a screen, and the real you, who becomes more and more fictional.