Social Media Causes Self-Esteem Issues

Self-Esteem plays a really big role in the world we live in. We can be the most beautiful person and still feel ugly.  I was telling one of my moms customers about this school blog I am writing and how my next topic was how social media affects people self-esteem and she told me how this a very string topic. She mentioned how one thing that she thinks about a lot is how her parents relationship was/is built so strongly yet she cant even get on second base. Then she bought up this really good point how back in the olden days, they didn’t have 800-900 people judging them on their significant others looks or liking pictures in their disposal when their marriage or relationship didn’t work out. She said that back then a guy didn’t care how skinny or fat you were; how much acne you have; how much makeup you were; stretch marks or not; Goth or not. NONE of that mattered and nowadays that’s all that seems to matter!

Teresa Newsome in her article, 7 ways social media can affect your self-esteem, brings up really good points on how today’s struggles are “tenfold, as not only do you have to look good and be interesting, but you have to be good at things and appear successful and you have to also seem to have an interesting life.”

I am only going to talk about 2 of the 7 topics she has mentioned and touch up on how those 3 things affect our self-esteem. The first one is “The Ads.”  We may not notice it but we compare our self to Ads all the time. For example if we see the Kendall Jenner or Gigi Hadid is on a cover of Vogue magazine for a swim shoot then we will think, “why can’t I look like that?” Also a really good impact on EVERY girl’s life is Victoria Secret.  Whatever social media you open up, you will find VS somewhere whether it be there pink line, bathing suit line, or the fashion show. And we all know how there expectations for their models are super high so that bring us down in so many levels. One last example Newsome uses is “The Folly of the Tutorial.” This means that social media is filled with how to do things like makeup, shop, brands. Brands and individuals post tutorials on everything from how to get the perfect eyebrows to what high company brands we should wear.

Basically the social media builds up who we are and if we don’t do what to media tells us then we have low self-esteem because everyone is so quick to judge.

"7 Ways Social Media Can Affect You Self-Esteem." Bustle. Teresa Newsome, 26 Jan. 2015, Web. 07 May 2016.