Ever since the first social media sites opened in the early 2000s, there has been a distinct difference in the way people have acted when they are online versus when they are offline, how information spreads, how people choose to display themselves online, and how the standards of beauty have changed. This is because social media has changed the way people behave and act online drastically. It is clear that social media has had a big effect on people’s everyday lives and greatly changed the world, by changing how people act, how people display themselves, the standards of beauty, and how information spreads. Firstly social media has changed the way information has spread in numerous ways, because now it is as easy to post, tweet, retweet, …show more content…
An example of this is, “Strong ties, or close friends, are the root of our self-esteem inflation and determine how we act on Facebook. In the end, they are who we want to impress, why we keep up with digital appearances and what we ultimately base our online identity on”(Huffingtonpost.com). This passage clearly exemplifies how social media has changed the way people depict themselves online. It is clear that social media has changed how people display themselves compared to real …show more content…
This pressures specifically girls to look like “models” no matter how pretty the are, forcing them to go to drastic measures such as starving themselves, putting loads of makeup on, etc. and can’t learn to except who they are. It is clear that social media has changed the standards of beauty. This is perfectly exemplified in the following passage, “We argue that, because people care about the image they present to close friends on social networks, social network use enhances self-esteem in users who are focused on close friends (i.e., strong ties) while browsing their social network”(Hufffingtonpost.com). It is evident that social media has upped the standards of beauty to the point where they can no longer be replicated in real