Social media games and fragile self-esteems

Recently, a school "friend" of mine posted a game on WhatsApp status:

Send me a ❤️ if you think we are friends.

Thanks to my recent addiction to my mobile phone and checking WhatsApp statuses every 2 seconds, I came across this one.

I immediately sent her a yellow heart back. ("I really thought we were friends!"). I asked "ye chalega?" And she apparently was quite bored (FYI: my phone doesn't seem to have that emoticon, nor does my mind!) and sent back two yawns. At that very moment, I found it very funny.

Later on, (thanks to my addiction again) I realized that responses and people were being categorized as Highly expected, Expected and Unexpected. 

And I wondered why I didn't make the Unexpected list. Now let me be clear, I have no qualms about not making anyone's friend list (my therapist is excellent!). But it surely made me wonder what impact would this have made if I had a fragile self-esteem.

Here is the sequence of what my mind may have done: (swirling into an imaginary situation)
Me sends a heart
Gets a yawn in response
My brain has an amygdala hijack!
Oh my God! She finds me boring...Do people find me boring? Am I a boring person?
Oh no...she has started posting photos of other people...
Still no mention of me...
Should I post the same game on my WhatsApp and see how many respond?
I think X also did the same thing...ignored me...
Am I not a good person?
Is this why I am still single? Do guys find me boring too?!!
Will I not have any friends...Will I end up alone without friends?
This is not fair...how come she can put so many pictures as unexpected and not put mine? Should I ask her? Will it look really lame? 
Oh God! What should I do?
(Puts her head in her hands) *stressed*

All this happening in less than 5 seconds...Imagine how it would be if someone's self-esteem depended on others' responses...

Social media is truly not for the weak-minded. It adds an unsaid pressure by comparing yourself and your life with a seemingly happy world. 

It takes a great deal of courage and resilience to not get affected by people's DPs, WhatsApp statuses, Facebook posts and Instagram pictures... 

Maybe it's a part of evolution where the weakest perish! But the point being...

Who creates the strong and weak? 
Who decides how you should feel about yourself?
Whose life is it anyway?

The journey is always about finding yourself, your footing, your strength and your world.
Play the game with yourself...