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This Website Provides You With The Tools To Be Instagram Famous

A new website called Life Faker has arrived to make having Instagram worthy photos easier.

In 2017, Instagram was ranked as the worst social media app for young people’s mental health and well being, according to a survey by the Royal Society of Public Health.

It makes a lot of sense actually in a world where an increasing amount of people feel the need to endlessly scrutinize themselves. We’re all guilty of this; examining and reexamining every single photo we take to find the one that looks perfect.

A campaign by mental health awareness organisation Sanctus decided to solve this problem by creating a website that has categories of photos which can be purchased for as little as $1 a month.

 

They’re here to curb the onslaught of social media anxiety induced anytime you feel compelled to give your friends or followers a little update on your oh so perfect life. The idea is simple: for an extremely reasonable $1 a month, you get a selection of pre-shot, curated and captioned ‘grams that align the lifestyle you aspire to, but obviously can’t afford.

 

Founder and CEO Oli Frost discussed how this idea surfaced.

“Last year I fractured both my knees falling off a chair I’d stood on to take an aerial photo of my rainbow bowl,” CEO and founder Oli Frost tells us. “I was under a lot of pressure from friends at the time — all of whom made a mean guacamole and shared them on Instagram regularly. After the accident I thought about quitting social media for a while. And then I had a better idea: Lifefaker.com.”

Lifefaker’s, mission is to normalize conversations around the traditionally taboo topic. Which, in a world where we spend about 94% of our days gazing at a screen, means tackling social media.

 

“Social media is an amazing tool to connect us all,” Oli Frost says, “but it’s really easy for people to chase short term dopamine hits that can affect their mental health in the long run.”

 

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