I'm thankful that my childhood was full of imagination and bruises from playing outside instead of apps and how many likes I got on my pictures.

In a world where everyone is over-exposed, the coolest thing you can do is maintain your mystery.

The older I get, the more I understand and realize the true value of privacy. I've learned that you need to cultivate your circle and not let everyone in at once. You can be open, honest and real while still understanding that not everyone deserves an open seat at the table of your life.

David Amerland once said, "Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something that the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction and value as an individual." How crazy is that? We seek individual value through the opinions of those that see us ONLY through the looking glass that social media provides.

Being famous on Instagram is basically the same thing as being rich in Monopoly...

If that doesn't help put some perspective on it for you, I don't know what will. I remember going through a phase where I would think to myself, "I haven't posted on Instagram today, I need to find something to post." How lame is that?

Never before has a generation so diligently recorded themselves accomplishing so little. We sit on our phones and Snapchat, "Like" or Tweet our day away, but what for? For our followers? We all know they don't really care how many likes or views you get, so why do we put so much effort into impressing them through posts all the damn time?

We don't need to broadcast every high and low of our lives.

When I had my first reality-check with this topic, I realized that I was focusing on the wrong thing altogether. My experiences are MINE, and I don't need toconvince the world that Ihave a life.

Honestly, don't even give people the privilege of knowing everything about you. Sure, posting some stuff is totally acceptable, but remember that just because you didn't post it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Your biggest advantage in social media is to quietly progress and succeed without broadcasting it to the world. Save the little moments for yourself and your closest friends. As I said before, not everyone deserves an open seat at your table or deserves to know what is happening in your life at all times.

The point is, you can't upload love. You can't download time. You can't Google all of life's answers (no matter how much we'd like to think we can). You must actually live some of your life without the fear/desire of an audience's opinion.

Everything you post on social media impacts your personal brand. So, how do you want to be known?