the social pressure to not post on social media

We talk often about how there's the constant need to post about ourselves on social media, and how we bend over backwards to try to put out more content, but I think there's a reverse social pressure at play as well. There's so much riding on every single Instagram post these days, it's a common feeling to feel this overwhelming pressure to put out *good* content. So the pressure is not so much on quantity as it is on quality. Instagram is a very different landscape from what it was ten years ago when you could just post whatever you felt like that looked nice. Now with hyper-curation and the possibility of monetization, everything is completely different.

I've been trying more to romanticize my own life, and I love making videos out of trips for the fun of it. I sort of want to post them on social media, but I always hesitate. Would people be interested in this? Would people be impressed by this? So I don't post anything at all. The thing is, I am not interested in the lives and posts of many of the people I follow, and maybe that is the problem. So I post very little on my own account, afraid that other people will find content about my life boring. And so a healthy resolution would be to start posting more for ourselves and our close friends, or whoever is interested in us, and normalize unfollowing people. And not following people when we're not interested.

So bucking the social pressure for me has been to actually post more often. To not worry about being boring to people, and posting because it's something I like that I want to share.