Essay On Anorexia And Social Media

Social Media helps cause eating disorders because of what we see on T.V., in movies, and online. Social Media and T.V. entertainment promote “thinspiration” by choosing only tall thin men and women for their main characters, advertisements, and commercials. Many people will argue against the fact that Social Media doesn’t help cause eating disorders because it’s no different than walking down the street and seeing any and every body type you could see online. While this is true, Social Media still plays a huge role in the cause of eating disorders. When watching a movie the main character is almost always a tall and thin man or woman, though sometimes the role is filled by an overweight or average person, the movie itself is usually a comedy and often mocks or jokes about the characters …show more content…
“Go online yourself, have a look. Every parent and teacher needs to know that "thinspiration" sites are dangerous. They glamorise anorexia, they promote photogenic waif-like models and starvation, and ignore the breadth and misery of eating disorders. Anorexia is not photogenic or glamorous, not from the inside.” (Emma Woolf) There are many pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia websites that will offer tips on how to avoid food and some will even suggest posting a few "inspirational" photos of your ribcage, shoulder blades, or thigh gap online. It’s hard to get away from these images online even without being on anorexic blogs or websites. All over Instagram, Tumblr, and Facebook are hundreds of skeletal selfies, and the messages of encouragement accompanying them. Certain online bloggers will argue the fact that these sites are just a joke and the people posting on them are only trying to get attention. There are certain blogs and accounts that do post for attention but that doesn’t mean an aspiring anorexic takes it that way. They see it as just another reason to convince themselves what their doing is