Digital life can turn comparison into background noise.

Comparison used to require an occasion. Now it runs continuously and quietly, dozens of times a day, mostly below the level where you would name it as comparison. The result is a low ambient dissatisfaction that has no identifiable source because it has hundreds.

Notice how you feel after twenty minutes of scrolling rather than during. If the answer is consistently worse, that is data about the activity rather than about your life. Changing what you look at is easier than arguing yourself out of the effect.