“I’m going to be taking a break from social media for a bit. Just didn’t want you to worry if you didn’t see me on there.” said a text from one of my dearest friends. “I get social media anxiety. If I post a picture and no one likes…
Late last night I was scrolling mindlessly through my friends’ Instagram stories and one of my friends was poking fun at fashion bloggers. She was doing what I had been doing earlier in the evening – identifying where she purchased her outfit she was currently wearing. Except instead of Target…
I would love to blame social media on my comparison mind-games, but I think it started for me when I was in middle school. It was 1994 and I lived in a small town north of Tampa, Florida. At the time every single “cool” girl in my grade wore BONGO…