For the past few years social media has played a big part in the way girls look at their body and their self confidence.  Social media shows inaccurate images of girls’ bodies.  People tend to look at famous idols and compare himself harshly to them when in reality they paid thousands of dollars to look how they do.  From puberty and on girls try to fit into the criteria of how men or boys want girls.  Self confidence is a necessity especially in stages of growing up.  The question asked was, “Do you think social media determines the way girls or people look at himself?”  

Mia Benzinger, sophomore, said, “Your self image of yourself plays a huge part because girls tend to focus on how many people like their posts and who follows them.  When in reality they should be looking at who they are for their self-image not others opinions of themselves.”  Your focus should be on the positives of yourself only.  

Maddy Sanford, sophomore, said, “I do not think that media does because a lot of girls are not focused on looking like a model.  I think people try harder to be more like their surroundings and to fit in.  Girls try to look like every other girl to feel confident and like they fit in more.  Being basic if that makes sense.  Fitting in more makes them more confident even though they are not always themselves.  Fitting in to people around does also contribute to self-confidence or self-image.

 Tianna Little had a different look on this topic, “Social media does not have a big part in the way we look at ourselves.  Girls these days and in this generation build a lot of self confidence from just doing their own thing.  I think you get more respect for that for thst but I do not believe in peer pressure and trying to be like someone.  Media has has just become such a natural and normal thing that people don’t go to it for attention anymore.  People only care about what you post for like a cool second but yeah, depending on what you post, you can put yourself image out there.”