I'm being completely honest when I say that lately I've been getting aggressive if anyone mentions numbers to me. And why? Because as a marketer, I know what you don't know, which is that likes mean a lot less than you think, that they're easy to influence, and that sooner or later the influencer industry will collapse.
There are many people who delete a picture if it doesn't get the estonia whatsapp list of likes they consider satisfactory after a minute. For many, the number of people who follow them and like their pictures is a complete obsession. Many people measure their worth by numbers. They have no right to, but they do it anyway and feel bad.
I feel overwhelmed.
One of the reasons influencer marketing has succeeded and brands have embraced it so readily is because it promotes unhealthy consumerism. Nowhere do trends change as quickly as on Instagram.
Nowhere is fashion as fast, consumable, and fleeting as on the internet. Never have brands found such sales potential as in influencers and their followers who want everything their idols have.
It has never happened before that today blue is in fashion, yesterday it was black, and tomorrow it will be green. The day after tomorrow, who knows, but the fact is that with so many rapid changes in fashion and trends, people feel tired, overwhelmed, and it becomes difficult for them to keep up with everything.
I feel unloved.
Many people in relationships have the need to constantly post pictures of their significant other, and the need is especially heightened when it comes to influencers. It may sound and look dramatic, but some people are romantic by nature, and some are influencers who know that a little (a lot) of their private life shared with the public will bring them even greater popularity.
Be that as it may, many have complained that social media has made them feel unloved, lonely, dissatisfied in their own relationships that are not like those on Instagram, and have wondered more than once whether they will ever find their other half who writes them romantic messages every morning and buys them 100 red roses.
I feel incompetent.
If there's one trend on Instagram that should be banned, it's the trend of perfect lives. More precisely, of pretending to have a perfect life, because it's clear to everyone that a perfect life doesn't exist. As much as we're aware of this, it's sometimes hard to shake off the impression that everyone on the internet is tidy, organized, successful, and happy.
That they have super smart and clean children. Pets that are perfectly trained and intelligent. Partners who give them flowers every day. Jobs that they are fulfilled in and that make great money from (and by the way, they get every job they apply for, finish college on time, or start their own business from scratch without anyone's help).
They don't get wet in the rain and their hair is always perfect. They wake up with makeup on and no dark circles under their eyes and perfectly fragrant breath. Wake up. Perfection doesn't exist. Instagram pictures are mostly staged and staged, but that doesn't mean that people often feel bad about them, even though deep down they know they can't be true.
I feel angry, sad, depressed and anxious.
If I had a euro every time someone told me they were angry because their partner looked at, liked, or commented on a picture of an ex-lover or someone they "shouldn't have," I would have a Mustang.
Likewise, people often feel bad and sad because of all the above feelings, emotions, and situations, and after a while they also feel angry and dissatisfied because they also want what others have or think they have.
Why does she have this and I don't? Why has someone succeeded in what I've been trying for years and it's not working for me? Why is this person so lucky and nothing works out for me? It's normal, even though it might not seem that way at first glance.
Even the most beautiful, richest, and most successful people admit that they have sometimes felt bad after spending time on social media looking at pictures of other people's "perfect" lives.
So what's the solution? Can we all simultaneously delete social media from our phones and make them fail? No. So what?
Maybe the solution is to view them purely as entertainment and not take Instagram or the people on Instagram too seriously, without being too hard on ourselves?
I feel bad about the number of likes and followers
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