2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The social conditions that emphasize physical appearance appear to be very distinct, and there continues to be a significant lack of support and acceptance in society. Social media reinforces the scenario in which young people are continually assessed based on visual footage of their lives. Facebook has over a billion unique users, and research suggests that social media use engages young people in exploring and demonstrating the various aspects of self that shape their identity. A recent study shows that self-esteem is an important predictor of how young people will demonstrate their real or imaginary selves and, accordingly, try to impress or mislead others. It is argued that the very structure and functioning of Facebook encourages superficiality, a disregard for the content in favor of the popular and original. Essential elements of social media such as status updates, comments, feedback, discussions, images and videos are often grouped together on a single page as documentation of every change in identity. Dana Boyd describes how social media users fit themselves into life through a profile page statement, thus creating a digital body that could potentially fall far short of our actual real selves. As Boone and Sinclair put it, “for some, these digital selves become fragmented chaotic reflections of a personality, not only completely unreal, but also never representing an absolute reality - a visible half-truth."
The explosive development of social media also creates a scenario in which we can often and with increasing ease experience our image as if from the point of view of an external observer. This point of view is often associated with emotional memories that have not been sufficiently worked through. These unprocessed memories tend to be rooted in perceived threats, such as fear of being bullied or emotionally ignored. Without emotional elaboration, the brain can continue to reflect on the problem of appearance.
Thanks to scientific research, it is now understood that when people are confronted with a trigger that is related to appearance, a dysfunctional information processing mode can be activated. Attention shifts, and a person may begin to view himself as an aesthetic object, and not as a person with thoughts and feelings. Such perceptions can also lead to negative beliefs about the importance of appearance in terms of self-esteem, which in turn can lead to negative feelings, in particular shame. For many people, the shame they feel can be overwhelming. As a result, a person's thinking is reoriented towards the struggle for an attractive image, and all his activity revolves around the appearance of the body in an attempt to control external points of view on himself. Thus, the attempt to create the ideal body can be seen as a desire to provide an accepting and loving look for another.
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