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Summary Of Teenage Girls, Body Image And Instagram's Perfect Storm '

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In the article “Teenage Girls, Body Image and Instagram’s ‘Perfect Storm’, the author Dan Milmo and Clea Skopeliti discuss the negative impact that Instagram has on teenage girls. The author is writing to teenagers in order to persuade them to delete social media and show them how negative it is to society. The article touches on a teenagers’ person experience with Instagrams negative effects. It makes people to acknowledge that instagrams models use editing apps and it is not realistic at all. They show percentages of the amount of girls who are affected by social media. The article speaks negatively on Instagram and they disagree with what the app is doing to society.An anecdote is used at the beginning of the article, the article states …show more content…

The purpose is for more people agree with them and make them feel sympathetic to those who suffer from these negative impacts. This article speaks on how many apps that we use in modern days causes many individuals to feel negatively about their mental and physical self. They give examples on how some individuals who dealt with à negative perspective of themselves learned that social media is not real and there is no point in making yourself miserable. They also state how it is sad that many children are not able to enjoy their childhood because they are too busy trying to change themselves in order to fit societies standards.Appeal to emotion is used in this article, they argue that “kids are not being able to live their childhood anymore because theyre trying to achieve this perfect standard, youre having kids worry so much about their appearance and how they seem to other people that they can't be kids anymore” (Milmore …show more content…

White speaks on all sides of body image, she speaks on the roots of it and how anyone can improve their body image. The author is writing to anyone who wants to know what positive or negative body image is. The purpose is to learn what causes it and how individuals can control negative body image. The article touches on the definition of body image and what can be associated with. It lists behaviors of a positive and a negative body image. It discusses treatment if someone is struggling with their body image. Lastly, it touches on how negative body image can be more common in certain groups of people for example, the LGBT community. The author uses hasty generalization when they state that “many people have concerns about their body image. These concerns often focus on weight, skin, hair, or the shape or sixe of à certain body part” (White

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