Nollywood actor, Mike Ezuruonye, has said that social media has created a system where people live fake lifestyles to become products of both public success and private failure.
The actor said, unfortunately, such people only show their successes but not their failures in the social media space.
The actor said over the years he has witnessed fake-life habits where people claim to be something but turned out to the opposite.
Ezuruonye further said several people feel they have to make an impression to be accepted by the public.
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Speaking during an interview with NAN, he stressed that maintaining a fake-lifestyle could be expensive and mentally tasking.
Ezuruonye said;
“The advent of the internet and social media has put unnecessary pressures on the youth of this country to live fake lifestyles that should not have been the case.
“You meet several people who feel they have to make an impression to be accepted by the public.
“On a personal level, I have experienced many fake-life habits where people claim to be something but turned out to the opposite.
“We are in a system where the social media has made people leading fake lifestyles to become products of both public success and private failure.
“Such people only show their successes but not their failures on the social media,” he said.
“There are a lot of people who drive flashy cars but do not have a house; people who prefer to stay in hotels where they owe bills but creating false images about themselves before the public.”
Ezuruonye further advised the public not to put undue pressures on themselves under the pretext that they wanted to maintain high societal profiles.
He warned that such could lead them to depression.
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The actor who is also a director, however, disclosed that he used to live a fake-lifestyle while acting to create suspense among his fans.
The 35-year-old actor said;
“The truth is that I live a fake-lifestyle while acting to also interpret the cast assigned to me by my director.
“That may mean faking a character that is not really me.”
The director said that for him to attain such class or level in real life would require him to work hard and be determined.
