²⁶As self-evaluation can use social comparison as a baseline (see footnote 2 in Chapter 6), it is also important to question the adequacy of such comparisons. For example, social media platforms may create unrealistically high standards regarding what one should look like and what lifestyle one should have, partly because such content is carefully selected and even fake. When adolescents compare their own life with social media, there may be a huge gap, which may create mental health problems as reported by Verduyn et al. (2015) (but see also Beyens et al. (2020)). How to reduce this kind of suffering: should people avoid using social media platforms? At the very least, it would be useful to understand the futility of such comparisons.