Social Medias Influence on Image

Continuing the theme from my previous blogs, I will be discussing my thoughts on the influence of social media and its specific impact upon children.

It can also be seen that social media applications impact younger generations by influencing their image of people, including themselves, should look. This influence can be seen to have positive and negative effects of the younger generation.

Applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and especially Instagram, each have account which anyone can follow. These accounts can often be based on fitness. These accounts often post pictures of fit people, healthy foods, and exercise routines. It can be found that this is beneficial for younger people are it ensures that they are cautious of their weight and care about the way they look. It can be good for people from young ages to have a goal for which they would like to look like. Therefore, these accounts can be seen to be motivational tools to support people throughout weight loss or maintaining their image.

However, it can also be seen that these social media accounts can cause people to become addict and obsessed with their image. These accounts can also tend to be found to post altered photos of photo shopped women, who’s figures have been edited to look appealing for those following the social media accounts. This can cause people, especially children who don’t understand that the images have been modified, to obsesses over their bodies and become upset and frustrated over not looking like the fitness models in the pictures. Therefore, although these social media accounts can provide fitness inspiration and motivation for young people, they can also be seen to drive them into poor eating habits to lose weight and have the potential to cause them to develop eating disorders.

Therefore, we can see that social media accounts have the power to provide positive, as well as negative effects on the way which we view ourselves and how we think people should look.

Type again soon, Anna