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Common
10-25-2018, 10:59 AM
This is sad but this is society today, talk to a screen, be what you want to be, say what you want, do all the things you dont have the balls to do in real time.


By all appearances, social media star Nate Garner has it all: an apartment in Hollywood, an adorable dog, an impossibly fit body and some 2.5 million followers on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/iamnategarner/?hl=en).

The only thing missing? People to share it with.


“Social media … has [made] me become a loner [in the real world],” the 21-year-old vlogger tells The Post. He says that his seven years of online fame have never mirrored popularity in his offline life, and tweeted in March that he’s lost “so many friends” along the way.


“My social media [presence made me] an easy target,” he says, reflecting on his high school years in Brea, Calif. “It got so bad, being so lonely, I would just go to my guidance counselor during lunch.”


It’s surprising for someone awash in online followers and likes, but it’s also painfully common, says Beca Alexander, founder of the New York-based influencer casting agency Socialyte.


“One of the things about this space that no one really talks about … is how sometimes sad some of these influencers are,” says Alexander, who’s worked with thousands of social media stars. She says loneliness is common: partly because influencers have exhausting schedules, packed with travel and intense content creation goals; partly because jealous peers pick on them or ignore them; and partly because many seem more comfortable online than in the real world, something that helps them create their Internet persona in the first place.

https://nypost.com/2018/10/24/social-media-stars-we-have-millions-of-followers-but-no-friends/