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> I've always suspected journalists can get a biased impression from sources like social media, because normal people don't go on social media to brag about how good they have it

> I'm highly paid with interesting work and great conditions

Isn't bragging the main thing people do on Social Media?

Even when we don't set out to brag, we still end up doing it often...



> Isn't bragging the main thing people do on Social Media?

start following more interesting people


But this same tendency can explain the escalations of misery being professed on social media. It is, itself, a point of bragging to show that you had a worse thing.




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