Negative Effects Of Social Media On Beauty

Ellen DeGeneres couldn’t have said it better: “Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It 's about knowing and accepting who you are.” Imagine yourself in a world where everyone was confident with his or her looks. How different would life be if there wasn 't a need for makeup or stressing to keep a certain image? Just imagine all the time you’d save by being confident with who you are! Statistics show over 50% of teenage girls are self conscious about their looks. Social Media is negatively affecting confidence in woman and distorting what true beauty is; further, Apps like Instagram and Twitter constantly distort what true beauty is.

Young women now feel the need to change themselves to cover up their own flaws and insecurities.

For example, celebrities lie about getting work done all the time. They convince their fans and peers how they are is all natural, and they were born that way. This negatively impacts those who look up to celebrities because it makes them think they need to change themselves to meet the standards celebrities put on peers. Instagram promotes putting filters on posts to enhance the view on pictures. Before you upload a picture you are presented with the options of editing your photos hence encouraging the user to alter the photo. You rarely come across posts anymore are which filtered free and unedited. It is never known what is real and edited thanks to these editing features. When girls are so made up and fake it makes others believe that’s normal and how it should be. This is a lie social media continues to set forth upon teenage girls and young

Effects such as depression, feelings of insecurities, suicide and many more all have been outcomes because of females’s unrealistic expectations of themselves. Technology has become so clear in society that an immense percentage of women either own a smart phone or are apart of some degree of social media. A Neilson Survey shows that “70 percent of teens aged 13 to 17 now use smartphones, and 79 percent of young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 own a smartphone” (Kerr) .You rarely come across a girl who doesn’t either have smartphone or access to some kind of social media. It is a constant battle over living up to the appearance expectations such sites put on women. These are unnecessary pressures women should not worry about ever. A girl should never be so insecure she feels the need to commit suicide based off of what society tells is beautiful. This just proves the dark world we live in. I personally believe that no one should ever feel any less about himself or herself based off of what someone else may