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interaction in the flesh; when the social delusion produced by media fades
and we realize we are alone the depression sets in because our social needs
are not truly being met.
Feeling alone can inspire a feeling of unease that may be triggered by
the self-perception of being unloved. Accordingly, a socially isolated person
feeling this way may be inclined towards thoughts of worthlessness, rejecting
himself since everyone else has seemingly rejected him. Now imagine the
effects of this phenomenon on someone with an elevated level of
vulnerability, such as a hormonal young girl constantly viewing Social Media
and Pop Cultures erroneous assessment of how young women are supposed
to look. Technology exposes this generation to a relentless distortion of selfperception, which needless to say, is another universal trigger for
depression. Unrealistic standards set by the media make young people,
particularly teenage girls and boys, so much more susceptible to intensified
negative body images. Furthermore, if an individual viewer is even remotely
biologically predisposed to developing one, these distortions of self-image
can be directly responsible for causing various eating disorders. And since
our culture has adopted a passion for vanity, dangerously unrealistic
depictions of beauty are incessantly reinforced to the world of Social Media
and Pop Culture, reminding us to contribute to the growth of each multimillion dollar beauty industry.
Our societys Media induced Vanity Phenomenon creates its own kind of
human, a media bred version of an insecure person. A person without the
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