【Global Times Comprehensive Report】 A survey found that "excessive beauty" on social media is likely to cause great psychological harm to users, and even make them have the idea of taking their own lives.
According to the British "Guardian" reported on the 2nd, the short video lover under the pseudonym "Mia" is herself a "plus size girl" with a weight of 200 pounds. Once, one of her short videos after beauty accidentally became popular, and the number of plays reached a million times. Since then, her beauty addiction has almost reached the point of "not being able to go out of the picture without filters". After the habit became natural, she once looked in the mirror and collapsed on the spot, she said: "I am so ugly... The moment I saw myself was horrible. I don't even dare look in the mirror! She said she often cried at night and was frustrated by her looks.
Mia's experience is by no means unique. Fardully, a body expert at the University of New South Wales in Australia, said the effect created by the filter was a kind of beauty that ordinary people "could not reach"; there are plenty of examples showing that the more young people over-pursue this beauty, the more vulnerable they are. A British beauty magazine also said that previous studies have shown that social software with beauty functions is more likely to collapse the user's mentality, so that they face inferiority, anxiety, depression, disgust with their bodies, and even suicidal thoughts. The principle is simple: the more many users use beauty, the more they know that they are actually "not good-looking", and this negative idea will continue to be reinforced.
To this end, some social media platforms have launched coping strategies. For example, Instgram has raised the threshold for the use of beauty features, making filter functions no longer "within reach". (Liu Haoran)
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