I experienced this with Facebook too, but not because I felt envious of other peoples' social highlights and I was comparing myself to that.
Facebook often shows you posts and photos from the same time in previous years, like memories but not particularly authentic. I found myself getting into a worse state of mind when I started comparing who I am now to who I was a year ago, two years ago... because my own highlight reel back then was far more exciting and vibrant than it has been more recently. Or that's what Facebook will have you believe, because it's just a one-dimensional window into a vast and diverse existence. It won't show you anything from your past that doesn't unambiguously register as 'happy'.
It makes it really easy to forget that there are positive notes to things you can't share so easily, so the comparison is as misleading as it is damaging.
I've experienced negativity from comparing my past self to the present, but because that self was too similar to the current. As in I wasn't experiencing enough progress as I liked. Fortunately comparing past to present GitHub shows a better trend.
Facebook often shows you posts and photos from the same time in previous years, like memories but not particularly authentic. I found myself getting into a worse state of mind when I started comparing who I am now to who I was a year ago, two years ago... because my own highlight reel back then was far more exciting and vibrant than it has been more recently. Or that's what Facebook will have you believe, because it's just a one-dimensional window into a vast and diverse existence. It won't show you anything from your past that doesn't unambiguously register as 'happy'.
It makes it really easy to forget that there are positive notes to things you can't share so easily, so the comparison is as misleading as it is damaging.