[coldtea]

>If other people find their ideal job, have a tropical vacation, etc. it makes me feel... good?

As if regular people don't compare themselves with others and just enjoy the success of everybody, without considering if they are falling behind or not?

[SyzygistSix]

The healthy spin on that is seeing possibilities for making progress towards one's own goals. Someone losing weight or getting fit/getting a new cert, etc makes me think "I can do that!"

[id]

You can compare yourself and enjoy the success of someone else.

[coldtea]

In limited capacity, in regular life, yes.

In social media, the constant highlights of the successes of other people makes you miserable for yourself, whether you feel happy for others too or not.

Besides an experience many can verify, it's also quite well studied, including in the linked article.

[cortesoft]

> In social media, the constant highlights of the successes of other people makes you miserable for yourself

That might be how it makes you (and others) feel, but that doesn't mean everyone feels that way. There are people on this thread trying to say that it doesn't make them feel that way, but they keep being dismissed. The studies don't say EVERYONE feels that way, so to act like they are WRONG about how they feel is overly dismissive.