Past research offers significant support that SNS-enabled outcomes are contingent on user demographic characteristics. For example, women were found to emphasize relational uses of SNSs more than men, which make women particularly likely to engage in upward social comparison [37]. Hence, we include gender as a control variable. Additionally, age differences may also intervene with SNS-enabled outcomes and envy processes. This is because older people are likely to have more experience in coping with envy-inducing incidents, which helps them minimize the impact of invidious emotions [11]. Hence, we also integrate age as another control variable. Further, size, and structure of one’s friend list has often been used as a predictor of SNS-enabled outcomes [4]. Therefore, we integrate number of friends as the third control variable into our model. Finally, users who actively participate on a SNS by sharing status updates, links, and comments may simultaneously be eager consumers of social information. In this case, both active and passive participation can impact the reported level of life satisfaction. To discern the confounding influence of these variables, active participation was additionally controlled for