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Donny Osmond talks about the anxieties that arose from a need to appear perfect, and the impossibility of admitting in public to flaws or errors.
The pressure to appear perfect is greater than ever, while the once‑protective screen no longer reliably separates the domains of the real and the virtual.
The expectation to appear perfect has created a deadly cocktail of FOMO (fear of missing out), jealousy, cyber bullying, death threats and depression; highlighted most recently by blogger Essena O'Neil, who berated social media publicly after she quit Instagram.
"Social media allows us to make our families appear perfect but at the same time we're always a bit relieved when we find out that things weren't quite as wonderful as presented," says Gilly Macmillan, whose much-anticipated debut novel Burnt Paper Sky focuses on the prolonged fallout after a child disappears.
Snow fell for the first time during the Games and unlike other days, visibility did not appear perfect on on the Rosa Khutor Alpine Centre.
My parents kept feelings bottled up so everything would appear perfect.
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