The digital age has caused a lot of body confidence issues in young people. They are growing up with photoshopped images and ‘Instagram perfect’ lives on their screens every day.
Looking after young adults and informing them that social media does not depict real life will help them to see that the ‘perfect’ bodies they see online are also not real.
A short video to watch how photoshop for magazines and adverts is done can be found below.
Good articles to read/share:
- Instagram vs Reality – https://www.boredpanda.com/instagram-vs-reality-kim-britt/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
- How Photoshop affects body image – https://medium.com/@agleigh1999/how-does-photoshop-affect-womens-personal-body-image-927b3ddf37d
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