Human Envy on Social Networks
The article "How to be happy when everyone else ‘ s life looks perfect" written by Moya Sarner is devoted to the discussion of the problem of human envy. First, the author draws our attention to envy on social networks.As we all know, social networks, such as Instagram, Vk, Facebook and so on were created not only for communication between people, but also for sharing news, photos or videos with them. Being on social networks, we expect people to see their actual life on their accounts but it is not always so.... In most cases we face to a photoshopped life on social networks or, in other words, just an edited verson of reality. The author analyzes that ordinary users take these photoshopped pictures at face value and start being depressed or even envious about it. Moya Sarner gives an example of women who begin to follow certain beauty gurus on Instagram just to find new techniques in make-up, hair, nails and end up envying the women they fol...