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Single Women Should Ditch Facebook Because Seeing Friends’ Weddings And Babies Is Bad For Their Health-Says Relationship Expert

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Last week, a GC Staff writer shared with us her experience from using various social media platforms and why she DELETED her facebook account.

According to her article; “Facebook or Instagram is an online world where people can claim to be anything they want with words and photos.” and that she was not far from depression because of the sort of things she read and saw on these platforms.

Today, a different article is suggesting that single women should ditch Facebook because the ‘perfect lives’ of their friends are bad for their health. And we know some of the ‘perfect lives’ are not even real—they are presented as such but they can be false.

READ ALSO: Why I DELETED My Facebook & Instagram Accounts | An Online Life Ruled By Deceit

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According to DailyMail;

Author Zoe Strimpel (, a relationship expert) says the social media site bombards singletons with pictures of ‘perfect’ weddings and babies which causes envy and voyeurism.

She said: ‘What [Facebook] does is it enhances the sense that your life is lacking and specifically, when you are single, you focus in on all those pictures of perfect weddings, perfect babies, perfect couples.

She urged single women to cut down or get rid of Facebook completely during a lecture at Cambridge’s Festival of Ideas.

She said getting rid of your profile will help ‘limit that delicious but yucky feeling of voyeurism, slight envy, maybe even narcissism.’

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