Society’s Obsession with Perfection: Impact of Media on Self Image Magazine’s line the shelves of nearly every grocery store, enhanced with beautiful models flaunting their skinny frames, big breasts and flawless complexions. Social media feeds are stocked with an endless amount of women boasting about their latest exercise routines and diets they swear by. Television has become nothing but twenty minute long commercials, endorsing their latest beauty product with promise to transform you into a supermodel. It is a thing of the past to catch a model featured on an advertisement with their flaws and all. Instead, we are exposed to models with airbrushed complexions, skinny waists and bronze skin. It is this reality of media in the
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It is an exclusive cyberworld full of young women advocating a lifestyle that revolves around an obsession with getting and staying thin. These communities have been around since the inception of the internet but have become much more prevalent with the expulsion of social media. These online communities use to be exclusive to online forums but social media sites such as facebook, twitter, tumblr and instagram have given these communities a much wider platform to share and encourage destructive behavior. Just google pro ana and communities such as “myproana.com” (and thousand other similar communities) will pop up. Communities like ‘myproana.com’ help fuel and amplify maladaptive behaviors associated with eating disorders. These communities are responsible for also enabling girls to divulge deeper into the depths of their eating disorders, distorting their reality with thinspiration and advice to encourage starving themselves. The media has a tremendous effect on the development of a negative and destructive sense of self. The influence media has on society is becoming greater and more dangerous everyday. They steal one’s love of themselves as they are and offer it back at the price of a product. Social media is driving young women to adopt dangerous behaviors, an excessive preoccupation with their appearance and low self esteem. The media has one intention: to make a profit, however it is at the cost of altering the reality of body image and teaching young vulnerable women to only find value in their physical
It is an exclusive cyberworld full of young women advocating a lifestyle that revolves around an obsession with getting and staying thin. These communities have been around since the inception of the internet but have become much more prevalent with the expulsion of social media. These online communities use to be exclusive to online forums but social media sites such as facebook, twitter, tumblr and instagram have given these communities a much wider platform to share and encourage destructive behavior. Just google pro ana and communities such as “myproana.com” (and thousand other similar communities) will pop up. Communities like ‘myproana.com’ help fuel and amplify maladaptive behaviors associated with eating disorders. These communities are responsible for also enabling girls to divulge deeper into the depths of their eating disorders, distorting their reality with thinspiration and advice to encourage starving themselves. The media has a tremendous effect on the development of a negative and destructive sense of self. The influence media has on society is becoming greater and more dangerous everyday. They steal one’s love of themselves as they are and offer it back at the price of a product. Social media is driving young women to adopt dangerous behaviors, an excessive preoccupation with their appearance and low self esteem. The media has one intention: to make a profit, however it is at the cost of altering the reality of body image and teaching young vulnerable women to only find value in their physical