Social media is a scary place. It can be used for good, but lets all be honest here – it’s not always the case that it is used for good.
In todays society trolls make the internet a hard place to be.
I can’t imagine what it is like for Hailey Bieber. The world is on her every move, judging and criticizing her every move. She does anything and the world is judging it.
Especially the internet.
The super model addressed the issue of the mean and negative things said on the internet on her Instagram.
“I would say my most favorite part of existing is human connection. I absolutely love connecting with other people, I love finding common interests between me and others, hearing people’s story, I love laughing with others, and I love crying with others. I feel so very very deeply. My heart explodes with happiness when my friends and family are happy and my heart feels crushed when they are hurting and sad,” she wrote.
She continued, “The reason I say all of this is: because I love to connect, I do my best to expose my heart which means I love freely and I empathize deeply, and because of that I also hurt very easily when I feel like people don’t see my heart and see me for who I am and the reason I’m even sharing this, is because Instagram, Twitter etc is SUCH a breeding ground for cruelty towards each other, and because people don’t take the time to connect with each other on an honest level before they resort to hatred, it starts to damage what could be really beautiful human interaction and connection.”
“I could sit here all day and say the hate doesn’t bug me, that the words that are said don’t affect me. But NEWS FLASH: it hurts to be torn apart on the internet!!! It hurts to be compared to other human beings every single day, it hurts for people to jump to conclusions and make assumptions. It hurts to be called names, and to feel like you don’t measure up to a certain standard.. the list goes on and on. I share this only because it weighs often on my heart and because it’s important to be honest about how these things affect us mentally and emotionally. Hopefully it speaks to someone struggling with the same.
with that being said Happy New Year. Let’s connect more in 2020 :)” she said finishing up the post.
Hailey’s words are definitely powerful and true. We all definitely struggle with the same.
See the powerful and moving post below –
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