Rise Of Social Media

Have you ever been online looking for information on a research paper and BAM on the side of the page is an ad on the trends in celebrity gossip? More and more often if you go to your yahoo homepage one of the top stories will about who 's dating who, the new diet secret, or the speculation of "is she pregnant or just fat?!?". We live in a digital society where everything is blown up and made bigger than it needs to be. Social media is more than just celebrity gossip and plastic surgery, it has now turned into the younger generation guide book to life. The only way we can help broaden their horizons on the reality of life is to help them see that there is more to life than social media. If you have a facebook or instagram you 've …show more content…
Instead of focusing on bettering themselves it has become more important to be a size 0 and have an amazing physique that in the long run is taking a toll on your body that is unhealthy. I 've seen this exact health issue and body obsession happen first hand with a friend of mine, it 's not something you would ever want to see happen to anyone. Her health diminished quickly, she refused to eat anything basically starving herself, did not want to accept that what was happening to her was a dire issue and health concern. No one ever tells you about the healthy lifestyle paired up with the unhealthy obsession to get slim quick. The reality that my friend was suffering through looking at constant pictures making herself feel bad that she wasn 't like the models. She tried the clean eating and exercising regularly but the results were not coming quick enough for her liking and she realized that by just throwing up her meals she could faster results. This went on for half a year, little by little no one really noticed because we all saw on a regular basis from her pictures she posted that she was at the gym working out. Then things took a turn for the worse, her weight dropped dramatically she was a walking skeleton. It took alot of interventions to make her realize that she was putting her life in danger by what she was doing to her body. Her response was she was on her way to look like a model that she saw on social media. Once the doctor told her she was at a health risk that she wouldn 't live more than a couple months, she realize the terrors of how she wanted the dream body, at the harms of her health. My friend was diagnosed with Anorexia, for those unfamiliar with this illness; Anorexia is a psychological eating disorder in which people obsess about their weight and what they eat. No one