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Amie Orellana
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Shannon Wales
7 December, 2017
Social Media In our society today, social media is a monster because it has created unrealistic social expectations and unhealthy relationships with ourselves and others. Today social media has created beauty’s expectations that is illusory. Many think that modern day beauty is meant to be thin and beautiful, which is unattainable to a vast majority of people. In the article, Searching Out the Ideal: Awareness of Ideal Body Standards Predicts Lower Global Self-esteem in Women created by Emily Balcetis, Shana Cole, Marie B. Chelberg, and Mark Alicke states, “These changes in sociocultural norms have shifted conceptions of the ideal female form; this shift has created a readily available, yet often unrealistic and …show more content…

There are a large amount of misleading ideas which women think are true, such as, models on social media. Individuals strive for that perfect image which, if not attained, can cause major health problems like depression. They can even resort to plastic surgery to completely change their body forever. The amount of insecurities that social media causes among young women are gradually increasing overtime due to, peer related comments about their weight or parental guidance toward dieting according to Emily Balcetis, Shana Cole, Marie B. Chelberg, and Mark Alicke. In the article written by Emily Balcetis, Shana Cole, Marie B. Chelberg, and Mark Alicke, its states that women are more influenced by famous people that are on tv, “An average of 76 percent of female characters are below the average weight” (Fouts & Burggraf, 2000). Women who look up to their idols on tv and social media are more inclined to try and look like them in respect to their aesthetics.

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