By Mayo Bayo
Lying on my bed and singing out loudly to Asa’s music-Satan be gone playing in the background, here I was waiting patiently for the pot of rice I left on the cooker to get done. The weekend has just begun and my mood was just good.

A pop sound indicating a new message on Facebook interrupted my song. It was a like notification, a friend just liked my new profile picture .I scrolled through my news feed to catch up on what’s going on around the world with my friends, and I have been offline for like 12 hours.

Scrolling down gradually, I found beautiful pictures of a vacation trip a friend just posted. After flipping through to the last pictures, my mood changed, the happy me all of a sudden became moody. I began yearning for a travel trip. The perception of my friend been happier with those beautiful landmark at his background, took away my mood,. Just to show how “happy” I was, I donated my like on the picture.

This is just among the few people on my friends list whose lives appears to be so perfect that it actually makes me feel bad about my own life.

Am I getting jealous?? Of course yes, is this worth my happiness? Hell No! Comparison is the thief of joy.

I managed to get myself back after I asked myself, do I want to be happy or to feel happier than others.

Using Facebook is not bad for well-being per se, it’s how you relate back. It’s amazing how good a life can look on Facebook. Mr. Zuck did a good job designing Facebook to help make our lives appear perfect.

I like Facebook, I am quite active there and I have learnt lots of stuffs and met quite a number of interesting people. Man is social being, so it shouldn’t be surprising that Facebook became part of our lives. But like every great product, there should always be where to draw the line. Life appears perfect or ideal on Facebook, people are only going to post the “good” things in order to project a certain image/perception of themselves, we all do that or who goes to post about his/her miserable life on Facebook??

There are a lot of people out there that get sad everyday just from their Facebook news feed, for some it’s the like button. A mere button suddenly becomes a common source of dissatisfaction, because he/she believes they are lacking attention judging by the fewer likes compared to some of their friends who had a 1000 likes on a post/picture. Trust me comparison will only lead you to depression. Number of likes on a Facebook picture or post, should remain numbers and not a factor for your happiness. finish reading here-http://www.tlkdrum.com/facebooks-envy-effect/

You nailed it Bro!

Post to ponder... NYC one

Thanks guys

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