The Reality Of Social Media On A Teenager's Body Image By Zainab

Social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram have a significant impact on teenagers' body image. Influencers often post edited or surgically enhanced pictures, creating unrealistic beauty standards. This affects young kids who think they need to look a certain way to be considered beautiful. Teenagers are being brainwashed to emulate celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Madison Beer. This damage needs to be reversed because a teenager's body image affects their life choices, mental health, and social standing. Being unhappy with one's body image can lead to eating disorders and other problems. Social media platforms have created unrealistic perceptions of beauty that are not logical. Young girls are often bullied because of their appearance, leading to cyberbullying. Teenagers use AI to alter their appearance and post appealing pictures online. Solutions include TikTokers showing different body types and limiting screen time. The reality of social media on a teenager's body image. Hello there, my name is Zainab, and today we will be discussing a highly sensitive topic surrounding how social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram impacts teenagers' body images. It can be more impactful than you think. Often influencers post online without realizing the harm they're doing. They don't acknowledge the fact that they are getting plastic surgery done or heavily editing their pictures using certain apps. This ideology is created in young kids that they need to look a certain way to look beautiful or a certain beauty standards, but these teenagers or kids, they don't realize that this image being shown to them is not real. These teenagers are being brainwashed to look like celebrities like Kylie Jenner, Madison Beer. We have failed to realize the damage done needs to be reversed. A teenager's body image, especially in their age of adolescence, is important because it makes them determine how they make certain life choices, their mental health, their social stance in society. Not being able to be happy with your body image leads to eating disorders, body image issues, and further problems. How some young person perceives their attributes psychologically and physically, power of social media, highly influential. According to Amanda Ruffin, an instructor at Howard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a researcher with Stripe, she discusses how platforms like TikTok and Instagram have created unrealistic perceptions on body image and beauty standards that are not logical. Often, young girls are bullied because of how they look, which leads to their fellow peers cyberbullying them and calling them fat, or if a male is perceived as feminine, he is seen as gay. Their classmates do this to fulfill their body image issues and find peace within it. Often, teenagers use AI to look a certain way and post those pictures online to seem appealing. There are issues of these teenagers, but there are also solutions to this, and these problems can be avoided. Many TikTokers should post online and show teenagers different body types and representation of them using your platform in a positive way. A TikToker who does this is Spencer Barbosa. Their screen time should be limited. Teenagers should focus on themselves. I hope this brought awareness to the matter of body image issues.