Snapchat Dysmorphia: the impact of Social Media on the Selfie-Generation
The world of social media is dominated by Millenials (those born between 1981 and 1996 and aged 23 to 38 in 2019) and Post-Millenials (those born from 1997 onwards and aged 0 to 22 in 2019). These teenagers and young adults have grown up in an era of great freedom and technological advancement in terms of the internet, digital and mobile phone technology and social media. Because of the widespread use of camera phones and digital enhancement applications, Millenials and Post-Millenials have also come to be known as the Selfie Generation. But the benefits today’s digital world have not come without cost. Along with the good things that technology has given us have also come new problems. One of them is Snapchat Dysmorphia. What is Snapchat Dysmorphia? Snapchat Dysmorphia is a colloquial, unofficial and non-medical term that has been coined in recent times to describe a fixation on perceived flaws in one’s physical appearance caused by seeing too many filtered photos of themselves ...