Relationships and TMI
In a world bursting with images of in-your-face happy couples whose relationships are often labelled as "couple goals" on Social Media, not posting much, or anything at all, about your relationship, could be perceived as being a sign of 'trouble in paradise'. This is especially true if, in your younger years, your platform was known to contain 'love-struck' posts or pictures of you and your significant other most of, if not all, the time.
As we grow older, some of us begin to realise that our happiness doesn't always have to be broadcast to the rest of the world, even though it is normal to want to share good news with as many people as possible. Unfortunately, not everyone you share your good news with will be happy for you and, on the other hand, if you stop posting as consistently as you used to, this may garner unnecessary, negative attention towards your relationship, or whatever else you used to boast about.
What some of us forget is that no news doesn't necessarily mean bad news and that just because someone is consistently posting pictures of how happy they are in a relationship, it isn't necessarily a reflection of their reality. Perhaps they feel some type of pressure to prevent themselves as a perfect couple to the world for whatever reason. But, as most of us know, there is no such thing as a perfect relationship, and the older one gets, the more apparent it becomes that it takes a lot of work to sustain one.
Society does have that tendency to make people feel unnecessary pressure. The pressure of being at the top of one's class, being an honorary student, getting the best grades, being the best child, the best friend, the best partner, being the best at almost everything. What adult life reveals to a lot of us is that being everyone's friend or being amazing at everything is almost impossible. And, yes, it may come with the territory, the public's feeling of entitlement to be informed about every up and down of people's relationships if posts about their lives used to dominate their pages in the past and have suddenly come to a halt. However, no one owes it to anyone to share what's going on in their personal life if they don't feel like it, regardless of how many times someone has gone public with their life events in the past.
No one shows up to a job interview dressed in their pyjamas bottoms (unless it's a Skype interview I suppose), so it's only natural to want to present one's best side on Social Media. It has, nevertheless, become increasingly more common to share info about break-ups online due to societal pressure. Some audiences simply feel that if you first share anything about your life with them, they automatically become entitled to know the rest of it or to be a part of every step of it. It does beg the question about where one draws the line in terms of what they choose to share with the world.
Since everything has become extremely digital and people live half of their lives online, it has become an increasingly popular thing for people to share what's going on behind closed doors, but, then again, what is shown in as twelve-minute clip, for example, doesn't have to be an accurate representation of someone's life. When it comes to earning money online, people have become very creative and we can't be sure that what we see online is reality anymore.
Stepping away from Social Media and deciding not to share as much as one was used to could mean that they are just going through a period of maturing, where they might be realising that choosing to make some things personal can be just as special as sharing good news with the world.
As we grow older, some of us begin to realise that our happiness doesn't always have to be broadcast to the rest of the world, even though it is normal to want to share good news with as many people as possible. Unfortunately, not everyone you share your good news with will be happy for you and, on the other hand, if you stop posting as consistently as you used to, this may garner unnecessary, negative attention towards your relationship, or whatever else you used to boast about.
What some of us forget is that no news doesn't necessarily mean bad news and that just because someone is consistently posting pictures of how happy they are in a relationship, it isn't necessarily a reflection of their reality. Perhaps they feel some type of pressure to prevent themselves as a perfect couple to the world for whatever reason. But, as most of us know, there is no such thing as a perfect relationship, and the older one gets, the more apparent it becomes that it takes a lot of work to sustain one.
Society does have that tendency to make people feel unnecessary pressure. The pressure of being at the top of one's class, being an honorary student, getting the best grades, being the best child, the best friend, the best partner, being the best at almost everything. What adult life reveals to a lot of us is that being everyone's friend or being amazing at everything is almost impossible. And, yes, it may come with the territory, the public's feeling of entitlement to be informed about every up and down of people's relationships if posts about their lives used to dominate their pages in the past and have suddenly come to a halt. However, no one owes it to anyone to share what's going on in their personal life if they don't feel like it, regardless of how many times someone has gone public with their life events in the past.
No one shows up to a job interview dressed in their pyjamas bottoms (unless it's a Skype interview I suppose), so it's only natural to want to present one's best side on Social Media. It has, nevertheless, become increasingly more common to share info about break-ups online due to societal pressure. Some audiences simply feel that if you first share anything about your life with them, they automatically become entitled to know the rest of it or to be a part of every step of it. It does beg the question about where one draws the line in terms of what they choose to share with the world.
Since everything has become extremely digital and people live half of their lives online, it has become an increasingly popular thing for people to share what's going on behind closed doors, but, then again, what is shown in as twelve-minute clip, for example, doesn't have to be an accurate representation of someone's life. When it comes to earning money online, people have become very creative and we can't be sure that what we see online is reality anymore.
Stepping away from Social Media and deciding not to share as much as one was used to could mean that they are just going through a period of maturing, where they might be realising that choosing to make some things personal can be just as special as sharing good news with the world.
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