Just realized my biggest digital nomad mistake after a conversation in Medellin

I was chatting with this guy at a coworking space in Medellin last month, and he straight up told me my Instagram feed looked like I was faking the lifestyle. He said all my posts were just beach shots and laptop on a table pics, nothing real about the grind or the loneliness. Honestly, it stung at first but then I thought about it. I realized I was curating everything to look perfect and missing the actual messy parts of being a nomad like dealing with bad WiFi or getting scammed by a hostel. So I changed my whole approach. Now I post more about the annoying stuff like how I spent 3 hours fixing my VPN in a random cafe in Bogota. Has anyone else had someone call them out on portraying this lifestyle wrong?

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wade7671mo ago

Man that's a solid point about the highlight reel thing. I had a similar wakeup call when my buddy back home asked why all my photos looked like stock images from a travel ad. Now I just snap the random stuff like the time my SIM card died in the middle of a video call and I had to explain to my mom I wasn't ghosting her.

the_skyler1mo ago

Wow that's a brutal but honest wake up call. I feel you on that though, it's so easy to fall into the trap of only showing the highlight reel to make yourself feel better about the whole thing. Did changing your approach make you enjoy the actual experience more?