YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook (for those who still use it) are wonderful places to engage, interact with and keep in touch with those you love and are friends with. They can be great platforms to be a part of - but there's a fine line between healthy relationships with social media and toxicity.

If you're anything like I am, you might have people that you like to especially keep up with on social media because their lives matter to you. I have lots of these types of people that I follow along to. It can be a wonderful thing to see them succeed, have lots of money to buy designer with, and slowly rise to more and more fame. But there's a not-so-good path to go down with these people.

I can count at least 20 or more influencers that I follow. Yes, you heard right. Influencers.

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Here's a little background on them.

The thing that needs to be understood about these people - most of them - is that they're getting paid to flaunt their stuff in front of your face in pictures from far away…

Hence why they get their name "influencers." These "beautiful" and "amazing" people can have a full-full-time job being on social media, advertising brands that sponsor them and creating their own merchandise. Even YouTube pays their users for having a given amount of subscribers and followers on other social media.

Their lives seem so perfect; but as you probably could see from the title of this article, that is far from the truth.

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Because your favorite influencers are being paid and sponsored to post certain things, pose in certain ways, wear certain clothes and travel to places you wish that you could go, you're probably thinking along the lines of the fact that their lives are perfect and that only good things come to them.

I'm going to be blatant about this: they're no different from you.

They're human beings on the same Earth as you are, and they had to start from the bottom. This is aside from the point.

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Most influencers don't display any sad or frustrating parts of their lives. Go to your favorite influencer's Instagram and scroll through their photos. Is there a single post that contains sadness, anger or difficulty? Most likely not.

On the other hand, there are influencers nowadays that are actually honest with their followers about their lives, and make it obvious that they also experience hardships and problems that we don't anticipate or see without them saying so. I appreciate those influencers and their structure and organization. It makes me feel like more of a normal person and not a low-life loser.

The bottom line is: don't let these gorgeous and stunning people ruin your morale. You're also gorgeous and stunning, and you deserve the best. We have to work for the wonderful things that we have, and that's okay. So do our influencers.

Don't let yourself be fooled by all of their fame and fortune. That's what their lives are all about. They can hide behind their social media and contain their sadness without exposing it. Remember that.

We are one and the same, so appreciate yourself as much as you appreciate the ones who inspire you.

Photo by Joshua Rawson-Harris