What Experts Say 2

Social media may disturb and negatively change your point of view on the world and yourself. Constant exposure to artificially styled and photoshopped pictures in media may have a serious impact on one’s mental health and decrease your self-esteem. Using underweight, flawless and photoshopped models can start self-esteem problems and self-degradation in life. According to a survey of 1,500 participants, more than half of them reported that social media make them feel inadequate and unattractive. People tend to compare their pictures and lives to the ones they see online. At the moment they are not able to realize that the pictures are edited and changed to look perfect. People seek for recognition and appreciation. Comparing our lives to the ones which seem successful or happy and to people who meet the society’s standard of beauty, may make us feel that we are not that successful, not that happy or not that beautiful. The frustrations start to grow and the feeling of not enough takes over people. Therefore, lies in social media have a negative impact on human life.

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Brown, J. (2018, January 5). Is social media bad for you? The evidence and the unknowns. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns.