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Instagram vs. real life

Social media today is playing a central role in our lives. Living in this digital age where virtual reality is seen as more paramount than our actual real life. Whatever we do, whether we go out for a meal with a friend or to a fancy wedding, always picture ready for our social life.

Instagram, which is the most popular social platform with a billion active users and is growing at the fastest rate than any other major social platforms. It has revolutionized the idea of sharing images and has become the most popular visual platform which communicates through catchy pictures and captions. 

It has influenced new behaviors among people around the world. A meal is incomplete without taking a perfect #brunch-goals picture
This platform has led people to lose a sense of reality; they have come to ignorantly believe that our online persona is more important than working on ourselves.

People are more focused on how to enhance the quality of the picture to display on the social platform in order to represent their ‘best life’ through edited and filtered pictures. So much time and energy get invested in creating the online fantasy world, which could never match the real world, and all these efforts to gain likes and followers.

Around 68 percent of the people admit to editing their daily posts to make it more delightful, in such a scenario, a doubt casts over the authenticity of lives we see on Instagram.

‘Insta lie’ was a term used by Ditch The Label in their video highlighting some of the lies posted on Instagram. We are growing up in the false world through Instagram, where we have become accustomed to filtering ad editing every aspect of our lives to create a perfect illusion. Our obsession with looking perfect has breached onto unnatural creepy.

The flooded pictures harm us mentally and psychologically. The perception of the perfect body and body goals has left many under-confident about their shape and body figure and taking them to a depressing life, beauty filters, and diversified beauty standards, making girls conscious about their looks. 
Some spend a lot of time and money in order to achieve the filtered beauty pictures of Instagram; it has changed the experience of traveling, sparkled food trends all reflecting the false reality which leads to messing up of energy, depressing minds, distracted lives and wasting time in admiring the things that never exist in reality. It has created jealous behavior over illusion. 

It has trained us to compare our lives instead of appreciating everything we are, and we have. It brought mental disorder, which is diagnosed as ‘Selfitis.’ The term coined in 2014 is an actual mental health condition where people have an obsessive need to post selfies.
The idea of this platform is to relax and entertain, but instead, we are scrolling over thousands of pictures-and disturbing our minds by comparing our lives with the virtual world, according to research conducted by the Royal Society for public health and young health movement. Instagram is the worst social media platform for mental health.

We are growing up in a false world through this social platform Instagram, and we need to manage its negative impact on our real life. The first thing one should know about oneself and should know he or she is excellent and complete in themselves. A great message has been delivered out by the movie ‘Bala’; we must stop caring about what others think of our looks - that once we begin valuing ourselves, the world will too. 

In the movie, also we see a scene in which the heroine BHumi Pendnekar is playing the role of a dark complexion girl who faces criticism whole life for dark complexion but is happy the way she is. One of her relatives gets her Instagram photos edited to-make her look fair, about she comes to know later on and gets angry about it. So one should feel great about oneself irrespective of what others say. Limiting the time spent on the social platform can also help. One can put reminders on Instagram. 

To check how much time is spent and monitor the screen time. Removing toxic accounts and maintaining a few followers who are genuinely well-wishers. . unlist toxic accounts that instinct to compare daily life. Think before posting. Skip the editing and post the real-life, the real person. Show the real version, not the edited version of yourself.

Remember, one is born to be real, not to be perfect.

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