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How do you think you look? The answers to this question form our body perception. Body image is a mental representation that we create with our ideas about our body. This representation may or may not be about how we actually look.

Body image can be affected and deteriorated by the attitudes of the individual's parents, early life experiences, emotions and other factors. If we do a survey today and ask, "What do you think affects our body image the most?" What would you say if we asked you? I think the first answer most people would think of would be social media, specifically the app called Instagram.

While surfing social media during the day, we consume the images that are published continuously. Exposure to these images inevitably affects the way we perceive our own physical appearance, for better or worse.

“Only 7 minutes of Instagram use reduced body satisfaction in young women”

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