{"id":15364,"date":"2021-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/mind-body-facebook-instagram-teen-girls-self-esteem\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:00:00","slug":"mind-body-facebook-instagram-teen-girls-self-esteem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/mind-body-facebook-instagram-teen-girls-self-esteem\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Knows Instagram Makes Body Image Issues Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"
People have openly talked for years about how Instagram isn't really great for body image in teens—or even adults. But now, it seems, the powers that be behind Instagram have been aware of this, too.<\/p>\n
Facebook, which owns Instagram, shared in a 2019 presentation of corporate data obtained by The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>, that it's conducted years of in-depth research and found Instagram isn't helpful for teens' mental health. "We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls," one slide from the presentation said.<\/p>\n "Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression," another read. "This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups."<\/p>\n RELATED: Will the Instagram 'Like Ban' Reduce Anxiety? Here's What Experts Think<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The WSJ also shared corporate Facebook data from 2020 that found that 32% of teen girls said that when they "felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse," adding that "comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves."<\/p>\n Even more disturbing, the company shared data that found that, among teens who said they had suicidal thoughts, 6% of Instagram users in the US blamed the social media platform.<\/p>\n "We're exploring ways to prompt [users] to look at different topics if they're repeatedly looking at this type of content," she said. "We're cautiously optimistic that these nudges will help point people towards content that inspires and uplifts them, and to a larger extent, will shift the part of Instagram's culture that focuses on how people look."<\/p>\n There's other research out there that has suggested Instagram isn't great for mental health in teens in the past. A British study from the Royal Society for Public Health<\/a> published in 2017 surveyed 1,479 young people between the ages of 14 and 24 on the impact of social media on their lives and found that Instagram had the most negative impact on young people out of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and Twitter.<\/p>\n RELATED: This Video Proves How Easy It Is to Edit Your Butt and Boobs in Bikini Photos for Instagram<\/strong><\/p>\n Another study by the Pew Research Center<\/a> that was published in 2018 found that 45% of teens feel overwhelmed by the drama on social media and 43% feel pressure to only post content that will make them look good to others.<\/p>\n Thea Gallagher, Psy.D., a Philadelphia-area psychologist and co-host of the Mind in View<\/a><\/em> podcast<\/a>, tells Health<\/em> that it's "not shocking" that Instagram has a negative impact on teens' mental health. "There are body image concerns, social comparisons—it looks like everyone is doing more and having more fun than you," she says. "Just comparing yourself to other people can be really harmful."<\/p>\n Facebook-Knew-Instagram-Could-Be-Harmful-for-Girls-GettyImages-885269948-1159500434<\/span> that head of public policy, Karina Newton, wrote in response to the WSJ story on Tuesday, in which she noted that the company is trying to steer people away from posts that promote poor body image or bullying.<\/p>\n