In this day age for most of us social media is just a part of life. It has so many incredible uses and connects us to people that we may not have physically seen in years. It can bring families together that live in different countries or let you get in contact with that one best friend from the fifth grade. It lets us share our life events and see what’s going on in the lives of people like celebs who we know we will never meet. Despite this fact and the fact that overall I truly believe that social media is a positive thing and a powerful tool ,we often times forget that any version of a person that we see on lives is simply that, a version. Social media gives us an incredible amount of control over what others can know about us and unsurprisingly very few of us want the whole world to see the bad stuff. While this is nothing new and everyone knows to take what they see on social media with a grain of salt, it is especially important to remember when you are a college student. Students who are entering college are always told that it is going to be the “best years of their lives” and while that very well may be true and college is truly an incredible experience it also means that there is a lot of pressure to live it up while you can. And while everyone seems to constantly be posting pictures of them at wild parties or doing the other countless things that you associate with fun in college the truth of the matter is that for most college students that isn’t what everyday looks like. Even though we all seem to know that it is hard to not feel like you are missing out on something anytime you are in your room studying or simply just spending a night with yourself. It is easy to compare your own experience to that of others or at least what you can assume It is from their photos and that does nothing good in the long term.