A Depressing Look at Life on Facebook [Video]

If our lives aren’t unfulfilling enough with traditional advertisers telling us what we don’t need and cannot afford, we can count on our Facebook friends to reaffirm our feelings of inadequacy by convincing us that they do, in fact, have it all.

Norwegian filmmakers The Higton Bros have made a YouTube video that portrays how social media dangles the good life in front of us without any hope for a payment plan.

The film takes its name from the question Facebook asks its users each time they log on: What’s On Your Mind? In it, a man compares a drab evening at home with his girlfriend to the self-aggrandizing updates of his Facebook friends.

“Everything he sees devalues his reality, eventually driving him to just make some shit up in order to seem less lame–to himself, as well as to anyone who might be paying attention,” explains Fast Company.

“He is validated in return, with...