Within a few minutes you can see relationships, trips, bodies, homes, careers and achievements from dozens of people. Comparison becomes almost automatic.

The difficulty is that you are comparing your full lived experience with a selected part of somebody else’s life. You may know this logically, while emotion forgets it.

If certain accounts repeatedly leave you feeling smaller, behind or inadequate, it may be worth looking at the role this exposure has in your daily life.

The boundary does not need to be dramatic. It can mean less time, different content choices or simply reminding yourself: “I am not seeing the whole story.”