Social media may stir up a lot of insecurities but it can also be good for facing them. If you are insecure about something and you post something online facing that insecurity depending on your followers they can help you get through that insecurity. Another reason why it is good is because it can make you feel better about yourself if you post something say a selfie and you get these comments like " wow you look amazing ", or if they comment a heart eyes it can actually make you feel better about your self and boost your self confidence. So although many people may perceive social media as something to just make you more insecure it can actually have some perks to make your feel better about yourself and feel better and boost your self esteem.
Imagine your sitting at home all of the time and you never go out but you always see the people you know your friends going out 24/7 and always posting about it on social media sites like Instagram, and you are never invited, how would you feel about that? That is exactly what a lot of teenagers feel today. "High school students who feel they do not fit in are less likely to attend college" phys.org. This is an example of how social media can effect you in the future and how if you let it consume you it can take away your hopes and dreams. "Particularly at risk were girls who are obese, who are 78 percent less likely to attend college than non-obese girls, and those who are gay, who are 50 percent less likely to attend." News.utexas.edu.com. And this also shows the type of people that it primarily effects and and the percentages of those people. So having the feeling of not fitting in is one of the main insecurities with in social media because you are seeing people post of going out all the time and you not being invited can make you and the people around you very insecure.
Another big thing that teens get insecure about is their looks and body image on social media. But it's not just seeing other peoples nice body that makes teens insecure but it can also be the stages of puberty that we are going in. "The changes of puberty and resulting sexual maturation often make adolescents feel self-conscious and awkward about their bodies." Education.com. This gives us a insight of another thing that majorly influences teens feelings of insecurities of their body, and how it's not by seeing other people making us feel insecure but it's from with in ourselves and how this contributes to also seeing people's nice body's and then looking at yours and feeling ashamed. "A study found that adolescent girls were more fearful of gaining weight than getting cancer, nuclear war or losing their parents" justsayyes.org. This shows how bad teens worry about their size or how big they are because socia media has brought upon this almost rules on how you should look and how skinny or muscular you must be and it is sad to see that this frightens teens this much and that they have to even worry about it.
Although social media can be a good thing for us by making us feel better about our selfs but it has mostly a negative effect on teens for insecurities. It shows proof that it makes teens insecure about their body's it also shows proof that it makes teens feel like they don't fit in. Insecurities has become a bigger issue with in the last few years and it's been growing at increasingly fast rate and has shown no sign of slowing down. And the only possible ways to stop this now is for parents to instill a sense of self worth in their children from a young age. And hopefully if everyone does that the percentage of insecurities with in teens about social media may go down.
CITATIONS:
"Teenagers Who Feel like They Don't Fit in Less Likely to Attend College, Sociologist Finds." Teenagers Who Feel like They Don't Fit in Less Likely to Attend College, Sociologist Finds. N.p., 5 Apr. 2011. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
"Teenagers Who Feel Like They Don't Fit In Less Likely to Attend College, Sociologist Finds." UT News. N.p., 04 Apr. 2011. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
"Self Image Media Influences - Just Say Yes." Just Say YES. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.
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