A Deceptive Outward Apperance

When we think of deceptions we think only psychopaths are capable of being deceptive; we believe for someone to be successfully deceptive they must be either psychopaths or pathological liars; just people who don't belong to 'normal' society. For people to knowingly deceive a group of people they must be untrustworthy; we must keep away from these social deviants, this is the general census surrounding facades and deceptions.

While for many deception does come naturally for others it has become almost a necessary part of survival, they deceive for a multitude of reasons. But for the most part it's to dress up the truth, make it presentable, palatable, prettier by altering it's appearance even if it slightly. This type of deception is not to benefit personally from the deception, this deception is to design to make others comfortable first by removing the nitty gritty parts of reality and just sugar coating them. 

I personally dislike the way that social media works by pitting people against each other, through the great art of showing off. This need to appear better than your peers has bred a type of people hell bent on ensuring their lives are dressed up so nicely so sparkly and just wonderful. It wasn't until I got Instagram that my blissful ignorance was shattered. I began to understand and sympathise with the reasons why social media breeds people talented in building facades. If you have a huge online following you are first and foremost going to be approached by a number of businesses selling everything from clothes to teeth whitening products,  you inevitably you will say yes and you will start to share more of your life so that people are hooked, and you will continue to sell. Now if you are in this situation you have a duty to your followers; misery doesn't sell, you begin to actively construct your image online, sometimes it might not match what is reality. There has been a number of a social media users who have straight out come out and admitted to doing so, there is a sense of normalcy when it comes to people with huge online following doing this.  

However everything changes ever so slightly when you don't have a huge online following, and yet you feel the need to create a facade with certain or all aspects of your life. The problem with this type of deception is the fact that eventually it starts to crumble and the people around you start to the number of inconsistencies within your life. Your online life and your real life just stop resembling the same person, the online pressures sometimes can be self imposed. Once people start realising that there is no need to pretend online their conscious will thank them for it, the people we are fronting for online just don't care that intimately about you for us to start fabricating aspects of our lives.

-Mal
'5k to couch'

p.s If you spend so much time fabricating your life you lose so much time that could be spent enjoying your present.