Social media use among adolescents, particularly girls, significantly increases stress levels and mental health issues. Starting as early as age 12, girls are exposed to detrimental comparisons and feelings of inadequacy. The prevalence of rejection through various platforms, including dating apps and social media likes, intensifies their experiences of public judgment and performance. On average, girls allocate over five hours daily to social media, where they encounter unrealistic beauty standards that heighten their anxiety. This environment fosters feelings of inferiority, leading many to perceive themselves negatively.
Social media exacerbates a unique kind of social stress-of feeling left out, inferior, and inadequate, especially as you compare yourself to others.
From Instagram likes to college rejections to dating apps, today's adolescents are navigating more social rejection in a week than a Boomer may have experienced in a lifetime.
Girls spend, on average, nearly five and a half hours a day on social media, where they're continually besieged and beguiled by unrealistic images of female beauty.
Many girls complain that they see themselves as a collection of unacceptable body parts. They are caught in a culture of feeling they have to be 'hot' to matter at all.
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