<story><title>Why people believe others&apos; social lives are richer than their own</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29189037</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bufferoverflow</author><text>A lot of it is just so fake. Pretty much everyone I know does the fake smile for the selfie, and then they immediately stop smiling.&lt;p&gt;Many people I know, when traveling, have a check list of the selfies they want to make to show everyone else how great their life is, when I know it isn&amp;#x27;t. And they miss the actual fun of experiencing traveling - to them it&amp;#x27;s just a series of selfies.&lt;p&gt;This was 99% of my Facebook, and that&amp;#x27;s why I quit. There was only one guy who was regularly posting interesting articles (tech, space, futurism). I ended up deciding a diamond in a pile of sh#t wasn&amp;#x27;t worth it, and HN&amp;#x2F;Reddit are better.&lt;p&gt;As for the social aspect, most people&amp;#x27;s lives are boring, and most people are boring, they only look at what&amp;#x27;s happening today, worry about what other people think of them, and other boring drivel.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;Rant over</text></comment>
<story><title>Why people believe others&apos; social lives are richer than their own</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29189037</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lxr</author><text>On average, people actually do have fewer friends than their friends have (also works for sexual partners).&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Friendship_paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Friendship_paradox&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>