While it's easy to blame Instagram for teen girls' anxiety and low self-satisfaction, we're forgetting that these issues existed prior to social media. Here's what really needs to change.
and unhappiness. Even as psychologists admit that correlation of teen girls’ depression rates with the rise of social media does not prove social media causes this rise, their approach is often, “Social media must be the cause, because I don’t see what else it could be.” [2]
Teens are exquisitely sensitive to social comparisons. Long before teen girls used social media, and a decade before the first widely available smartphone, girls looked at images of girls and women in magazines and on TV programs and ended up feeling low as they compared themselves to the models. In 2001, parents, teachers, and politicians in the UK called for a “Summit” to address what they saw as a self-image crisis in teen girls caused by unrealistic models.
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