Live And Earn

"Don’t tie your self-worth in with how many ‘followers’ and ‘likes’ you have."  --Amber Dee Do you ever get slightly jealous when you look at someone’s social media page and see that they have more followers than you? It’s natural to feel this way. Actually, there’s a term for it in psychology and they call it the Social Comparison Theory . It states that “we determine our own social and personal worth based on how we stack up against others we perceive as somehow faring better or worse.” Social media is great in that it keeps us so closely connected to our friends, family, and offers us many business opportunities — always staying up to date with what everyone is up to.  But the detrimental side of it occurs when we constantly compare ourselves to others on there, even stacking ourselves up to complete strangers. We compare ourselves to others as a way of fostering self-improvement or self-motivation. But it can also promote judgmental, biased and overly competitive or superior attitudes that in the long-ter