It’s bad because it can be so subtle. Most of my feed, ads and random reels aside, is just friends being happy and having fun. Thing is, a lot post only when they travel or do fun stuff, and some have the money or the terrible financial skills to make that a habit. The end result is that, very subtly, you start thinking everyone has it better than you. Everyone just skips or skims through the boring or bad parts of their life, while you live every moment of yours as you keep comparing it to what you see on Instagram.

It can be a happy place if you don’t frequent it too much and don’t have very toxic friends (and if you can get past the ads and the random stuff that meta throws at you in the feed), but it tends to not go that way.

Edit: I’m not above this, I only post trips as well, as basic as basic bitches get.