The Conversation

Social media has big power and influence over our lives. It does not always show the full, true story of what someone’s life is actually like because people only show what they want and choose to show on social media. Most people put the most happiest and exciting times of their lives out for people to see to give the illusion that their lives are perfect, but people do not ever think about what happens behind the screen in between the times that each picture or status is posted. Social media has been linked to more people having bad anxiety, depression, feeling lonely and make people feel like they are not good enough. Instagram models give off the perception to young girls that ones certain body type is the ideal body type that women are “supposed to have” to be considered beautiful, which definitely is not true. Social media should do more praising of all body types instead of focusing on one particular kind that society says is “more attractive”. In other words, some people believe that social media is bad for people’s self esteem and confidence in themselves. While people in other sources believe that social media is good and not bad at all, in their opinion. Those kind of people think that it is good because people can connect with their friends and families better. It supposedly also gives good opportunities for advertising businesses and even job opportunities. My view is on all of this is that just because social media does good for those sorts of reasons, those people from those sources do not think about the health of kids and even adults especially mentally. Also, people who are affected by it mentally might even have it influence them physically. Young women for example, if their body does not look like this Instagram social media model then a lot of girls will start to do unhealthy things to try to reach that same body goal. It is incredibly sad how this world is today with social media, body shame, bullying on media, comparison of lives that aren’t even the full picture. I wish life was more like how it was back in the 80’s or 90’s because today’s beauty standards are made to be almost impossible to reach.

https://uqora.com/blogs/news/does-social-media-hold-too-much-power-over-us

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/social-media-good-thing-or-bad-thing