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If that's a problem you're experiencing consider speaking with a mental health professional. That is not normal.

I considered it, but honestly, social media just tends to have that effect on many people. I don't think humans were built to have this much awareness of how everyone's life is going.
This is totally normal, especially if one is following social-media content related to travel or consumption (e.g. hobbies requiring the purchase of gear). It’s so normal that it is often expressed by the widely understood acronym FOMO, and indeed, it’s commonly talked about as one of the drawbacks of social media today.
Not only is it quite common, a large motivation of many social authors is to induce this feeling in others.

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