Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’

Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/18/teenage-girls-body-image-and-instagrams-perfect-storm

The suffering of the photo-sharing app’s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook’s internal research

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.