By
Cole Bascome-Duong
Dr. Dan Siegel scientists at UCLA did research on how the social media is it it's affecting our brains and how we have social interactions. In real life when people have interruptions we need to use the right side of the brain, which is more attached to emotion and allows you the ability to recognize the tone and posture of the people you're connecting. I'm like in real life social media uses the left side of your brain, which detaches the communication that your having from a motion. Our next generation and our current generation are going to have a lot more surface-level interactions and relationships because people aren't meeting, and conversing in real life.
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This video by Buzzfeed, who had a handful of employees undergo a week without social media. Which is slightly ironic because all of the publishing platforms for the company are you there on social media or on the website. In the city are you all see the people count call much of their time with taking up a social media commons how much time they actually hide when they didn't use it. They also noticed how common social media was what are friends and how to receive information and news, Which put a real toll on their daily lives, and preventing these people from having real world interactions juxtaposed to online.
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“American Girls” By Nancy Jo Saves, describes how common and present social media is among children. More specifically about the sexualization adolescent girls around the age of 13 or older. At this age girls feel pressured to post provocative photos online, which ends up attracting slut shamming on and offline. Saves research for her book “How social media is disrupting the lives of teenagers” and interviewed over 200 girls from 10 different states and ask them about their experience with the sexualization of women in social media. Children in the this day and age are exposed to extremely sexual content as well as exposing content a fairly young age. One specific point that she consistently brought up was the use of social media among the group of teenagers to post and share nude images of themselves commonly known at school's slut pages. This article goes on to sayMore about the sexual exposure the girls are having an how to their relationship with themselves has evolved.
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Although in the past few years social media has been promoting body acceptance ideals, but still constantly promote the idea .One body type is the best. There've been a multitude of shows as well as websites that promote thinspiration for their the girls of this generation. Watching the shows and visiting these websites promote eating disorders which can play someone for the rest of their life, From promoting eating disorders, to encouraging people to try these fad diets, and techniques to tell if you have excess Weight on your body. . Instead of leading a healthy lifestyle girls are posting pictures with #Pro-Ana short for pro-anorexia. These young girls that are being affected are viewing unrealistic ideals that celebrities in the staying age are depicting.
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Dr Snapchat or Dr. Michael Salzhauer, is a famous plastic surgeon that is based in Miami whose known best for his curve enhancing procedures that he publicly displays on Snapchat. He is especially and attraction to younger clients, because he has famous clients famous for their curves such as Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lopez. These procedure encourage women of all ages to expose their imperfections, and gives a more realistic outlook of plastic surgery and what really happens with Breast Augmentations, labiaplasties and butt lifts. Which his average client around the age of 23 and getting four invasive surgeries in one go. Although he blames it boosts the confidence of the women receiving these procedure, it broadcast to a younger audience that they should and need to change their own bodies to be accepted. This is extremely alarming because women have always faced a myriad of body image issues, and this is only adding to the problem.
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This article by Corine Gatti, explains why low self-esteem cannot really take a toll on any sort of relationship that you're having, More specifically a romantic relationship.If your self-worth is in the toilet, your relationship will follow it down the drain. Whatever baggage you have now will follow you into the relationship. Having a low self-esteem has at home unless someone's ability to communicate effectively, Just to have a healthy relationship in general. People who have low self-esteem typically become and more toxic person to be around, By sabotaging the relationship by questioning it. When people are running away from conflict 12 they really should be having open communication and talking things out. A lot of these self-esteem issues peoples exposure to social media, and typically affects women.
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Dr. Cal Newport, has never had social media, and watch how addicted his friends were and he saw it would be ”dangerous”. Although social media is one of the 21 century “fundamental technology”, but really it is just a source of entertainment that people just bottle up and sell. Newport compared to the average millennial he has rejected the use of social media. He has also found research that social media is addictive and fragments emotions, and economic ability, along with the ability to focus. This is really taking a toll on the latest generation, since it is the most saturated with it. Without social media, people have a load of free time, along with the ability to do task over task, and the ability to enjoy the similar things in life. Not only does it effect your social life and productivity, it also effect what content you see, and the subdued messages that people receive about what to aspire to.
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Essena O'Neill is a 20 year old model who had half a million Instagram followers and earned an income from social media who boldly lifted the lid on the addictive and "contrived" sense of beauty that is promoted online to shine light on an unspoken problem affecting her generation.She had more than 574,000 Instagram followers, around 250,000 subscribers on YouTube and close to 60,000 dedicated Snapchat contacts when she chose to give up her career as a "social media celebrity". In January 2016 O’Neill has announced that she is writing a satirical book called How to Be Social Media Famous.
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This article by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman dictates how the role of women in the professional world has changes. More women that ever are earning more college and graduate degrees juxtaposed to men, and undoing so are earning more jobs. More specifically how companies have a predominately female have more economic success, and and are more productive than their male counterparts. However there is one factor that men truly excel and compared to women, confidence. The lack of confidence is due to. Lacking confidence, Both in one's ability as well as capacity for growth can really take a toll on someone's self-worth and self-image, Due to the stereotypes that women are put under they have held back on their abilities and potential, so they don't fulfill said stereotypes.
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This article showcases how effects of female magazine models on the self-esteem and body image of college-age women. Millions of women all around the world are constantly bombarded West side deal the all women should be the size of a model. The average size of an American model is 5 foot 11 and the 117 pounds, this is an incredibly unrealistic to the average American woman who is roughly 5 foot for anyways around 140 pounds. Every year magazines pay billions took Post unrealistic ideals for a ones body type in magazines and causing self-esteem and body image issues among the everyday woman.
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