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How trying to be authentic on social media feels fake

I crafted the perfect caption for twenty minutes about feeling grateful and authentic but the whole thing felt like performance and I deleted it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to perform genuineness creates the very artificiality we seek to escape.

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