{"id":2885,"date":"2021-09-18T06:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/teenage-girls-body-image-and-instagrams-perfect-storm\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T06:36:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T04:36:54","slug":"teenage-girls-body-image-and-instagrams-perfect-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/teenage-girls-body-image-and-instagrams-perfect-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girls, body image and Instagram\u2019s \u2018perfect storm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suffering of the photo-sharing app\u2019s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook\u2019s internal research<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/sep\/18\/i-felt-my-body-wasnt-good-enough-teenage-troubles-with-instagram\">\u2018I felt my body wasn\u2019t good enough\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used the photo-sharing app to follow fitness influencers, but what began as a constructive relationship with the platform spiralled into a crisis centred on body image. At 19 she was diagnosed with an eating disorder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like my body wasn\u2019t good enough, because even though I did go to the gym a lot, my body still never looked like the bodies of these influencers,\u201d says Emily, now a 20-year-old a student who is in recovery.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/18\/teenage-girls-body-image-and-instagrams-perfect-storm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7d4845d3bd5fa5e26bbeacf4b9a855eaeafc01bc\/0_2419_6496_3898\/master\/6496.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e285f63fa6486dc8651d2fe947e1e01\" title=\"Teenage girls, body image and Instagram\u2019s \u2018perfect storm\u2019\" \/>The suffering of the photo-sharing app\u2019s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook\u2019s internal research<br \/>\n\u2018I felt my body wasn\u2019t good enough\u2019<br \/>\nEmily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used the photo-sharing app to follow fitness influencers, but what began as a constructive relationship with the platform spiralled into a crisis centred on body image. At 19 she was diagnosed with an eating disorder.<br \/>\n\u201cI felt like my body wasn\u2019t good enough, because even though I did go to the gym a lot, my body still never looked like the bodies of these influencers,\u201d says Emily, now a 20-year-old a student who is in recovery. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suffering of the photo-sharing app\u2019s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook\u2019s internal research \u2018I felt my body wasn\u2019t good enough\u2019 Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used the photo-sharing app to follow fitness influencers, but what began as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/teenage-girls-body-image-and-instagrams-perfect-storm\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teenage girls, body image and Instagram\u2019s \u2018perfect storm\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}