Instagram Into Eating Disorders

Instagram into Eating Disorders Instagram is causing more young people around the world to start engaging in eating disorders. Instagram is a social media platform that allows people to share pictures of themselves, events and places they are going, and their overall lives. People can choose to follow certain people’s instagrams so that every time they post a picture, they will be able to see it on their feed consisting of people they follow. Instagram has its positive features in sharing others’ lives with each other and keeping in touch with long distance friends and family. However, it allows for many negative things such as causing eating disorders. Instagram causes eating disorders because it allows people to compare themselves, which

People are constantly sharing pictures of themselves looking their best, showing off their accomplishments, and displaying the most interesting parts of their lives. This allows for people to look at their own appearance and their own lives and compare them to the people and things they see on Instagram. Although they may have great lives and be pretty, compared to the other people on Instagram, their lives do not seem as perfect, as well as they do not always look their best. This weighs kind of heavy on many people, not always measuring up to others. However, they do not realize that the people are comparing themselves to, are nowhere close to prefect. As portrayed by the article, Media and Body Dissatisfaction (2015), it talks about how media needs to sell itself and that’s why everything must be perfect and advertisements must have the most appealing models on it, it is all a gimmick to trick people into using their social media. Most people on Instagram only post the best of their appearance and their lives so no one sees their flaws or how their lives are not always perfect, but people continue to compare themselves to others while not realizing

It is only a positive app and there is no way that there is any link from Instagram to eating disorders. While it is possible that Instagram has positive effect, and gives people connections to share their lives, it allows people to share only what they want to share. This leads to people to only being able to see other people’s seemingly perfect lives on Instagram, which causes people to compare themselves to other people, lives, and appearances, not knowing that they do not show the whole story. However, people get desperate to look the way others look by taking drastic measures, such as, eating disorders. Young girls are especially susceptible to eating disorders growing up in a world that expects people to look a certain way in order to be called beautiful. The beauty standard is all they know and it is hard to find themselves beautiful if they do not look exactly like