Social Media And Its Effects On Society - 1167 Words

Most teens spend time in their rooms on their phones, texting friends, snapchatting their buddies, and on any social media site that they deem entertaining. Over the past 10 years social media has taken over, and has taken teens away from the real world and putting them behind a screen. Social media, a hot and relatively new commodity, is used by all ages. To understand this topic that will be discussed, social media needs to be defined. Most forms â€Å"of social media are electronic, and allow people to communicate and interact with one another using computers, smart phones and the Internet. Social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest) are a subset or particular type of social media† (Walker, L 2013) . Social media has taken†¦show more content†¦When it comes to body image and social media, young women are extremely affected. In this day and age, teen girls tend to focus on social media and the way women are depicted on them. The ideal body image for w omen is slim figure. Now that everything is so easy to access do to smartphones, problems with young women and body images have risen in the past few year. According to an article written by susan scutti,on the Medical Daily, talks about a new trend that hit social media recently, â€Å"Thinspiration† also know as â€Å"Thinspo†.This movement promotes eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia to young adults.. When typing in these hashtags â€Å" Nearly half the images featured headless bodies of women and predominantly focused on the pelvis, abdomen, or thighs, while also tending to be sexually suggestive† (Scutti, S. 2015, May 11). Also when typing in Thinspo immediately â€Å"images of emaciated legs and protruding ribs are flanked by words like â€Å"starving for perfection† and drastic tips to drop weight†(Shalby,2014). Showing a skinny women with a small stomach and a thigh gap makes girls who don t fit into that description take life t hreatening measures to reach that goal, and on top of that they give tips on how to lose weight. Thinspo pages also allow girls who are already suffering to compare â€Å" weights,{ being}together and {help} one another avoid eating†(Rojas,2014). In another article written by Jessica Bellaso