Luxury Lifestyle Posts on Instagram Fueling a False Sense of Poverty

A PhD in sociology said that displaying a luxury lifestyle in cyberspace can create feelings of poverty and backwardness in individuals. She added that the gap between people's real lives and the mental image formed of others' lives leads to reduced life satisfaction, increased deviant behaviors, and weakened social capital.

A PhD in sociology stated that showing luxury lifestyles in cyberspace can create a feeling of poverty and backwardness in people, and said: the gap between the reality of people's lives and the mental image formed from the lives of others leads to a decrease in life satisfaction, an increase in deviant behaviors, and a weakening of social capital.