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Do we try to make ourselves look better than we really are?  While some may argue no, I believe that we as people consume our lives into doing this very thing.  Just look at many of the things people desire to have: big houses, fancy cars, expensive clothing.  All of these things are attempts to make one appear better.  

One of the biggest examples of this phenomenon is a person's Facebook profile.  On ever person profile, only the best photos are posted.  When people post statuses on Facebook, if they do not get a certain amount of likes, they delete the post all together.  Why is this?  It all roots back to the basic idea that people try to make themselves appear better than they really are.  When a status does not obtain a "satisfactory" amount of likes, it is deleted because to the poster, it makes them look bad, as if people do not care about what they have posted.  In order to maintain their higher appearance, they delete it in hopes that no one has noticed this lack of attention.

Another example of this is done by colleges and universities.  Colleges and universities but thousands and probably millions of dollars into making their sports teams and stadiums look amazing.  All of this is done to try to attract more students to their school.  Even if the school's academics are of low or high quality, one of their main focuses is to make their sports teams perform well to make the college or university appear a lot better than it actually may be.  All in all, almost everyone tries to make himself look better than they actually are at some point in their life.