Our feeds can function as personal fun-house mirrors, distorting how we view the world and ourselves — and, according to experts, we're ripe for the shaping.
"Filters take the human aspect out of the images people are seeing," explains Dr. Wechsler. "[My patients] ask for plumper cheeks, bigger lips, and a new side profile based on what they see [on social media]," she says. "I have to educate them on why we can't enhance certain things. Or they want the surface of their skin to not have a pore visible, and that's not possible.
, cites Instagram as a prime source of filter-born distortion. Because no matter how critical our thinking or steadfast our self-image, we're still likely to follow the mega-influencer that is familiarity.
appreciation for something after multiple repeated viewings," he explains. "This is how those overly-inflated lips that used to look ridiculous to you become more and more normalized and attractive." For some users, normalization keeps them grounded. "Eighty-five to 95 percent of teenagers have acne, though many of them feel like they're the only ones or that their case is the worst," says Dr. Wechsler. "But if they find a supportive online group or a celebrity who's posted their skin withoutIllustrated by Niege Borgesare looking—or have an algorithm that will offer it up.
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