The Effect Of Social Media On Body Image

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Social media affects both guys and girl but mostly the girls. Social media today is affecting young women's body image. All over social media you see body image girls modeling . adds on how to lose pounds, how to make yourself look more skinny. Why try to change a body if you are perfect the way you are. You never see bigger girls modeling or showing there body because if they do that's ugly and not cute . social media thin-ideal image increases women's dissatisfaction with their body. Young womens from age 18-29 stay on social media and that's the age girl get depressed because they want a perfect body because that's all they see on social media.

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