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Let's be real and stop living fake lives in 2023

We all know 2022 was one of the most challenging years for most people. Many people lost jobs, many companies wound up, many landlords were left with vacant rooms after tenants moved out as a result of rent distress and many others.

The good thing is it made people go back to reality and stopped faking life. The other thing that made people start accepting the reality of life was the KRA threat that it was keenly following what people post on social media as one way of catching tax cheats. I think that statement brought sanity to social media as many people became more careful about which photos they post. I have always maintained that social media is one place where people really fake things and some of the posts make other people go into depression and even die by suicide.

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