Social Media's Influence On Teenage Girls In Fiji

Of the research found in Fiji they had found that even the teenage girls that were not directly exposed to the western media had also been affected. It was their peers that had passed along the media's influence to the unexposed teenage girls. In the end, Anne Becker and her team had found this “So social networks — school friends, conversations at school and interactions with social media — could introduce a girl to the attitudes about leanness popular in Western media, the study found. In fact, they found a stronger link between social networks and dangerous eating behaviors than if a girl had watched Western TV shows and ads herself.” As you can see media can affect anyone and everyone even with very little access.
Although a majority of studies are conducted on women when it comes to how media …show more content…
Instead of convincing herself to become, she started to diet again. She would specifically look up the caloric content of everything that she ate and kept mental notes in her head. She had refused to eat any kind dessert and instead focused on all of the healthier, and more diet friendly foods in the dining hall. She looked up various ways to burn extra calories, and believed those blog posts and magazine articles she had read that supposedly revealed secrets about “fat burning foods.” At the same time, she was also exercising at least twice a day every day.
Consequently, she had developed an eating disorder called EDNOS. “I spent hours looking at pictures of bodies online – Taylor Swift’s legs, Jennifer Anniston’s arms, and anyone’s abs but my own. I suffered from EDNOS. EDNOS, or Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, is a relatively new eating disorder (ED) that has been added to the spectrum along with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. I was not starving myself, nor was I binging and purging, yet I was going to unhealthy extremes to maintain a very low body weight” (Klein