Weekly New and Digital Homework

Friends’ pictures on social media have biggest impact on body image

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/05/friends-pictures-on-social-media-biggest-impact-body-image

Summary:

The academics will be publishing a magazine for schools to teach young people on how to react to posts and comments on social media, which are aimed to harm their self-esteem. Academics found that young women are likely to compare images of themselves amongst their peers rather than celebrities. Women are also more likely to diet and do exercise when negative comparisons take place on sites such as Facebook or Instagram.

Statistics:

• Around 70% of women aged 18 to 35 regularly edit their images before posting them
• The study, which questioned about 150 young women who completed five daily surveys over a five-day period

Own view:

The bigger picture is, for what intention? Is it for their own health? Or is it for their social media portrayal, to aim and get as many likes, comments and followers as possible? This desire of sorts has become the norm, as social media such as Instagram are filled with this type of content. Their has also been a notice of this form of content, and has been subjected to a meme. The influence that the internet has on people's lives has now gone to the next level; it is changing the way are seen as well as the ways their live their lives. This is apparent through largely social media, where numerous posts of young people and adults surround the content with their body, showing their curves or muscles.