Experts denounced its dangers to the future of adolescents in the world
Photo "filters" on social networks... the "permanent beauty" obsession
With the increase in the obsession with the Internet and the famous social sites, which have become teeming with the lives of individuals, some dangers began to form little by little to threaten the psychological balance of some, and their relationship with themselves and others. A recent published in the "Losservatoire" magazine and "La Croix" magazine, has its detrimental effect on body image and self-esteem, especially among groups less aware of its devastating repercussions on psychological life.
attractive trick
People often refer to the famous “improvements” of the image created by applications, such as “Photoshop” or “Faystone”, but the wave of “filters” that change “our image” today and sweeping everywhere on social media has become questionable and inciting “hoaxes”. The beautiful” and attractive in which we appear, in front of ourselves and in front of others most of the time, better and more beautiful and better than before through thin faces, whiter teeth, smooth skin free of impurities and an “enhanced” aesthetic reality far from reality.
Here the most important question arises, should we question their use?
Do all of us really feel good about using Instagram and TikTok filters, and how much more do we need more natural models for ourselves today?
"Selfie Knot"
One of the attempts to study this danger is British photographer Rankin's attempt to demonstrate the impact of applications, such as filters "Instagram" and "Snapchat", on the mental health of adolescents. For this purpose, the artist drew a series of pictures of 15 young people between the ages of 10 and 18, and then asked them to modify their pictures, to arrive at the result that they were going to post on their social networks. Surprisingly enough, none of them have preserved Rankin's original photo. All of them, without exception, smoothed their skin, while others either enlarged their eyes, or narrowed their noses, and with this matter before and after, and by comparing the results, the “selfie complex” emerges among young people, according to the title of the photographer’s project, which thus denounces “the effects of The harmful effects of social media on people’s self-image.”The phenomenon of "dysmorphophobia", which has long been studied by contemporary medicine, is an obsessive and psychological disorder in which the affected person feels anxious because of a defect in the shape or features of his body, as the use of retouching applications or Instagram filters can be compared to a kind of "virtual plastic surgery". » To hide the actual flawed appearance, (or often even push for real surgery).
From here, the problem of addiction to people’s personal “reality” can be understood. When we stand in front of our screen, “Instagram” sends us, for example, a “corrected” version of ourselves. Is this synonymous with the idea that our face was not beautiful enough, for example, or compatible? With its own beauty codes and standards?
And if the app fixes our faces, there are things that really need to be fixed.
Here, the cycle of obsessions and tension erupts, because these filters confront us with our shortcomings, highlight them by provoking the desire to hide them, and by trying to hide them, they make them more visible and make them visible, stark and disproportionate in the eyes of their user.
alarm
Other studies, in which researchers from Boston University in the United States, warned of the impact of the use of social application filters on the psychological and social balance of American adolescents, some of whom tended to wish for actual plastic surgery to appear, such as the photographs they take of themselves using the filters.
In this regard, Michael Stora, a psychoanalyst specializing in digital technology, pledged to decipher the real risks associated with the use of these “enhancers” and filters on social networks, noting that “modified” images were in the past confined to women’s magazines, but today the networks have contributed Today, everyone is watching the number of teenage girls addicted to “fascist filters” and “social media influencers (who have become real stars on these networks) to become stars like themselves, as this new phenomenon is likely to be born.” Narcissistic teens in the future.
violence against oneself
On the other hand, the same studies, conducted by Boston University, have proven that the idea of teenagers publishing modified pictures of themselves systematically, most of the time reveals a real fragility, as the “modifications” he makes to his appearance highlight hidden discomfort and fear approaching the degree of mania.” Ugliness.”
While the Instagram application and other applications perpetuate the idea of similarity and symmetry in “beauty”, through the entertaining game of directing that its filters play with users who look completely and constantly, imprisoned by the idea of “perfection” and “eternal beauty” in appearing in their best images. And the best of all.
This is contrary to reality and contains a lot of arbitrariness and violence against oneself, because every individual goes through difficult times and needs a space to express his distress, and this is lacking in “Instagram” in particular, which weakens the natural development of the adolescent to be an adult.
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