We use celebrity ‘news’ to perpetuate this dehumanizing view of women, focused solely on one’s physical appearance” (Anniston). Young girls do not have a mature understanding of how those magazines work and how to make a wise judgment about the standards of beauty diffused by magazines. That leads them to try to imitate the pictures in magazines (most of the time those pictures are photoshopped) and try to be in perfect shape with a skinny body and a flat stomach and a low weight. When they can not reach that body and fulfill the standards, they develop psychological issues and have a health
The television and magazines get into kid’s hands and they have an impact on how kids look at themselves. In television 95% of female actors are thin or underweight whereas only 5% have overweight bodies (Dying to be a Barbie). People have still come a long way from the original impact, but it’s still pretty bad. On Adele’s photoshop they state, “ “It looks like she’s been enhanced,” Anjulie Mittleman of Medford said. “I don’t think it’s a good thing,” said Marion Martin”,(CBS)
Photoshop could somehow be described as an application that gives its users the tools needed to design, edit, and even create photos. It is an application that has been widely spread and used by nearly everyone around the universe but not each person is using it for legal actions. It could be interpreted that using Photoshop could somehow create problems as it is allowing people do use it improperly. A lot of people nowadays are arguing whether or not using Photoshop, especially in advertisements, is ethical or not. There are a lot of misconceptions concerning this particular topic, but surely after all the problems caused by Photoshop, using it is wrong.
This creates pressure. Photoshop increases eating disorders in teenagers. A Girls Scouts of USA survey found that 89% of girls feel like the fashion industry pressures them to be skinnier. That is a huge
When it comes to the topic of the modeling industry, most of us will agree that models are readily looking slimmer and taller. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question: Are our models a bad influence on the youth? Whereas some are convinced that modeling is making individuals question their appearance, others maintain the opinion that people are simply blaming the fashion industry for making models appear “perfect”. Many may argue that models are the face of the advertising world, and without them people wouldn't have a real life example of what the end product looks or works like. However, there is evidence that today’s models have a negative impact on the youth, and are a danger to themselves.
With naive teens constantly being bombarded with anorexic, flawless figures, social pressures result in a distorted mental perception of what they should look like as they begin to constantly compare themselves to unrealistic images resulting in disastrous consequences as they feel inadequate about their own self image which may lead to cutting, drug and alcohol use, sexual addictions and bullying . Body shamers use social media as a platform to talk negatively about others, which strongly affects the emotional wellbeing of individuals who already struggle with their relationship with
What social media is doing to teens Social media is a very dangerous place that makes teens feel insecure. Teens spend more than one-third of their day on social media looking at stereotypical images of “perfect” bodies and people. As a result, they become insecure about themselves because they are not like the people in the pictures. The media states that a perfect person is skinny, tan, has shiny hair, straight teeth, and completely clear skin. However, because teens are going through a lot of physical changes they do not usually look like social media 's definition of perfect and they become insecure.
Kanchan Sogy Safia Ahmad ENGL 108 OP95 Oct 23, 2015 The Disturbing Sexualization of Young Girls In her essay "Why Are We Dressing Our Daughters Like This?” Lianne George writes about how modern day young girls are being plagued by the meaning of beauty. She goes on to describe how she believes that the modern meaning of "beautiful" is befitting a gateway for girls to dress in sexually provocative ways.
Photoshop has been around for centuries. Artist has used it since the early 1500’s, and it has helped pictures, and magazines of celebrities. Even though it might upset some young people, regardless the celebrities may look perfect. For example “Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.” So we try to make every photo look the best for people who read and admire the celebrities.
Photoshop is shaping an outrageously perfect standard that people strive to reach. This computer program is taking away from all natural beauty and making people do extremely damaging things to themselves to reach that “perfect waist line.” Why must Hollywood create such irrational goals for people to achieve? Even some celebrities say that they would rather not have their photos touched up. When teens look at these amazing pictures of other famous teens their self-esteem lowers, and with hormones running wild this can take a negative toll on a teen's confidence.
Photography has been around since the fifth century. Since then, this profession has advanced greatly throughout history. The word “photography” was created by a combination of Greek Root words, “photo”, meaning “light”, and “graphia”, meaning “writing” or “drawing”. We, as humans, have always been fascinated by the concept of being able to capture a moment within a picture and create a memory to keep and look back on. Photographs help us recall our past and can trigger different emotions from that memory.
For example, girls will style their hair to “become more attractive” (Berger 2014), or they will purchase ‘minimizer,’ ‘maximizer,’ ‘training,’ or ‘shaping’ bras, hoping that their breasts will conform to their idealized body image” (Berger 2014). This all appears to be harmless activities, yet when body image is only addressed outwardly and not psychologically, there can be an increase in poor and destructive behaviors. For instance, body image dissatisfaction can lead to poor self-esteem, which can create a cycle of increased body dissatisfaction, followed by decreasing self-esteem (Stapleton et al., 2017). Ultimately, a teenage girl can find herself in a cycle of “depression, eating disorders and obesity” (Stapleton et al., 2017). On study in 2012 revealed, “Two-thirds of U.S. high school girls are trying to lose weight, even though only one-fourth are actually overweight or obese” (Berger 2014).
Although many businesses may earn a lot of money from their photoshopped models or celebrities, they should put labels on their work, telling the public it’s been altered, and be aware of what their photos can do with young children's’ development and how it may cause eating disorders. One cause of
Jamie Jackson Ms Calimlim English 9B September 9, 2015 Negative Effects of Youtube On Teenagers Youtube is full of potentials, especially giving opportunities for young upper comers. With youtube being available on such a big variety of devices, Big trending You tuber’s videos spread around the cities, countries and continents in a matter of minutes from uploading their video. With these big trending videos it creates jealousy and becomes an influences for teens to attempt these daring acts for fame. As Youtube’s popularity is get getting more and more popular the standards of a video to go viral keep getting higher and higher, thus people nowadays attempt to do bigger more dangerous things just for attention.
Living in the modern era makes social media become part of our life. Basically, social media are used for communication and social interaction. Based on the Merriam-Webster, social media are forms of electronic communication (as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos). There are lots of social media that people use nowadays such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Path, and others. Most of people probably have two or more social media’s accounts.
