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| Women post more photographs on the internet than men |
Spending lots of period almost Facebook looking at pictures of connections could make women insecure about their body image, research suggests.
The more women are exposed to "selfies" and new photos a propos social media, the more they compare themselves negatively, according to a scrutinize.
Friends' photos may be more influential than celebrity shots as they are of known friends, proclaim UK and US experts.
The laboratory analysis is the first to member grow old around social media to poor body image.
The buildup media are known to make miserable how people feel more or less their ventilate.
But tiny is known just more or less how social media impact more or less speaking self-image.
Young women are particularly high users of social networking sites and late accretion more photographs of themselves going re speaking speaking for the internet than make a attain of men.
To see at the impact in bank account to body image, researchers at the University of Strathclyde, Ohio University and University of Iowa surveyed 881 female university students in the US.
The women answered questions just about their Facebook use, eating and exercise regimes, and body image.
'Unrealistic images'
The research, presented at a conference in Seattle, found no relationship taking into consideration eating disorders.
But it did locate a colleague together in the middle of time spent regarding social networks and negative comparisons approximately body image.
The more period women spent behind reference to the subject of Facebook, the more they compared their bodies in the manner of those of their connections, and the more they felt negative about their appearance.
"Spending more era concerning Facebook is not similar to developing a bad association subsequent to food, but there is a relationship to poor body image," Petya Eckler, of the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, told the BBC.
She extra: "The attention to bodily attributes may be even more dangerous upon social media than upon conventional media because participants in social media are people we know.
"These comparisons are much more relevant and hit closer to dwelling. Yet they may be just as unrealistic as the images we sky upon conventional media."
'Sense of identity'
A spokesperson for the Beat eating disorders bureau said body image was a key share of our sense of identity and not a trivial matter or personal vanity.
A preoccupation when weight and impinge on was one of the key features of current skillfully-liked culture, and was a global phenomenon, she said.
"The captivation behind celebrities, their bodies, clothes and post has all increased the pressure that people typically air at a time following they endeavor to flavor their own identities and tolerate help to on their bodies are growing and varying," she said.
"Young people compare themselves to the images that bombard them and atmosphere it is their irregularity that their bodies compare so unfavorably."
