Cyber-Self-Esteem

Awesome quote from my BFF since 3rd grade: “Facebook and MySpace are all about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.” I have to admit she’s right!

In the past, most people had to wait until their high school reunion or rely on accounts from hometown relatives and friends to know who was married, divorced, cheating, had kids, or got fat. Now we can log on 24 hours a day and cyber-spy to our hearts content under the guise of an online “friendship.”

Facebook and MySpace give us an awesome platform from which to present ourselves to the outside world. You can upload only the best pictures of yourself, and use your status updates to proclaim to the world all of the awesome things that are happening to you (and if you’re smart, keep the not-so-great things to yourself). Then you can look up all of your “friends,” especially the ones you weren’t really friends with when you actually knew them in person, compare your profile to theirs, realize your life sounds way cooler, and pretend they are doing the same thing and wishing they had been nicer to you.

Is this healthy? Normal? Probably not. But I just can’t stop…and admit it, you were up until 2:30am last night too, comparing yourself to pics of your high school crush’s spouse and reassuring yourself that they TOTALLY missed out!