Sadie Robertson Huff Warns About Social Media: ‘No One Could See The Full Picture’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Sadie Robertson Huff is reminding her followers that social media doesn’t always tell the full story.
“I’ve been reflecting a lot this past week… or maybe that’s just a prettier way of describing the true wrestle I’ve faced with my thoughts!” she captioned a picture of herself.
Huff shared that she and her sisters have been talking about “casual posting” on Instagram again — “You know, how we all used to when this app first started and you just slapped an Instagram filter on a hot dog you were eating and said ‘good lunch’ and if you got to 10 likes you never thought about it again. Those were the days ?”
However, she explained that it was easier to “casual” post when she was younger “because things felt casual. There was no pressure of followers, cancel culture, the meanest comment being the most liked, even the deals that come when the algorithm is going your direction. Not to mention life just isn’t as casual. Our world isn’t casual.”
“The truth is, my life is so sweet right now,” she wrote. “I have an awesome marriage, amazing kids, and doing great things. But a couple weeks ago in the midst all of my fun travel I had so much anxiety. I even told my friends I was sick one night, but in reality I was just dealing with anxiety. My calling felt costly. My stress felt valid. I cried on an airplane listening to a song about missing my family while I do my job. So it felt weird to casually post in all of those destinations when I felt like no one could see the full picture.”
Huff concluded, “I think that’s the thing we have to realize… the picture can never display the full picture. the caption can never articulate the fullness of a 24/7 reality.”
Huff frequently talks about the negative impact social media can have on people.
At the beginning of 2023, she challenged herself to spend less time on social media. In a post updating fans on where she’d been, Huff wrote, “I’m in a season of life that I just do not want to be distracted in!…I’m so thankful for what has been right in front of me, and I’m taking some intentional time to really see all of it, and man, it’s been sweet.”
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Huff explained why she doesn’t feel the need to seek out distractions through things like social media.
“There’s a lot of beautiful things in the world,” she said. “There’s a lot of attractive things in the world, but I am captivated by God. I am captivated by faith. I am captivated by my family, by my husband. And therefore I don’t need to wander out in the world and do other things because I’m content with what I’m captivated by.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Huff’s thoughts on the dangers of social media:
Sadie Robertson Huff recently shared passages from her upcoming book, “Who Are You Following?: Pursuing Jesus in a Social-Media Obsessed World,” ahead of its release date on Feb. 1, 2022.
“While the Like button has trained us to be likable,” Huff writes. “It has prevented us from feeling truly loved. We post our curated lives and edit our true feelings and struggles to maximize the rewards.”
“The desire to be liked in such a way that we filter who we truly are is moving us away from feeling loved because it is making it impossible for us to be truly known,” she continued.
Robertson Huff warned that the desire to be “liked” based on your social media presence will not satisfy.
“Being seen is the cheapest version of being known; visibility will not fill your heart or nourish your spirit,” her book reads. “People want so badly to be seen when their true desire is to be known. Trust me, you could be seen by millions and feel like the loneliest person. Yet you could be known by just a few and feel totally secure.”
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