"Aww babes you look totez beautz"
"Aww fanks! but you must be talking about your sex pot self"
"OMG awww! but seriously-this is such a nice pic!"
400 "awwws" later and some people who dislike each other are still pretending to be best mates who genuinely think each other are "beauts". The fact is that for every 200 likes, your edited selfie picture becomes less and less real. You become an object of the internet- only liked because you popped up on someone's newsfeed, only complimented because your photo is air brushed and filtered. Your photoshopped, social networking face is not who you really are at all. The person you really are is a ordinary enough human being with eyes, nose and mouth all arranged in a normal enough way. You probably have a spot or scar on your forehead. You probably have bags under your eyes. You probably don't look anything like your profile picture that everyone says is so "stunning". urgh.
You probably aren't friends with 600 people and you probably, if we're honest, don't think "Babyjustwantstolivelovelaugh pink_rabbit xx :*:*" is that pretty. In fact you probably don't even know her real name. You probably sit at home, eating a digestive thinking "urgh. she's such a poser! and she's such a bitch." but as you click the like button you know that if you weren't frenemies with her you would probably have far fewer friends and far more enemies. You probably don't want to comment "awww" but you do because it's what everyone does. She probably doesn't want to respond to your comment by saying "awww-but you!" She'd rather write "and why are you commenting you ugly cow?" but she won't.
Most of us do it. Most of us pretend to be friends with people who we don't know that well, don't like that much and don't really care about. It occurred even before Facebook and twitter and all of those sites provided a platform for it. It's present in the way we civilly talk to colleagues, to friends of friends and even in the way we talk to our families. We are constantly acting. Constantly trying to keep up the pretence of our popularity, social status and intelligence. As humans it's only natural to want to be seen from the best angle, in the best light, at your best. But as friends, family members, colleagues it's also important for us to be honest with ourselves and with each other. We have to learn to accept and deal with our faults- maybe learn to love them. We have to realise that pretending to be friends with someone is no substitute for a real friendship.
Tip: Be a bit more honest with yourself. That's all. Oh and please stop saying "aww babes you are such a hotty omg aww :*"- no one needs it in their life. It is a waste of pixels.
(in response to http://amyand7billion.blogspot.co.uk/)
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