[funkiee]

I think I read it on a Hacker News comment, but to put it simply, You feel bad reading facebook because you're comparing someone's highlight reel to your behind the scenes footage.

Once you realize that, you can just get over it.

[joezydeco]

I believe that's really the key point. It's not just about vacations and people showing off nice things.

It's the fact that while you're viewing pictures of someone's vacations, you are not reading about the 4-hour fight they had in the hotel room the night before, or the fact that the airline lost their luggage, or that wifey is in the bathroom puking her guts out from the tainted seafood at the midnight buffet. That stuff never makes it to the Facebook wall.