Most twentysomethings know better than to compare their liv… - Meg Jay

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Most twentysomethings know better than to compare their lives to celebrity microblogs, yet they treat Facebook images and posts from their peers as real. We don’t recognize that most everyone is keeping their troubles hidden. This underestimation of how much other twentysomethings are struggling makes everything feel like an upward social comparison, one where our not-so-perfect lives look low compared to the high life everyone else seems to be living.

Meg Jay

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now · April 17, 2012 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Most twentysomethings know better than to compare their lives to celebrity microblogs, yet they treat Facebook images and posts from their peers as r… - Meg Jay

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