Friday write #4: How social media influenced me

Scrolling through my phone looking at all these pretty models and Instagram influencers, with their perfect bodies and how nothing ever looks wrong with them, their makeup looks so perfect, clothes always have no wrinkles in them. Social media has influenced my life in a negative way I would and everyone’s life, all these girls on social media always look perfect, and nothing looks off with them ever. It has made me feel like I need to be like that, and nothing can ever look off, I found myself always looking if my makeup is good no lines or marks, making sure my lips are always glossed, and killing my curly hair because how could I wear it when most girls have curly hair. I just wanted to fit in with everyone else and not have something different, I found myself more often caring about what other people think and wanted other people to like me like me for my looks and not my personality. So, I started going to the gym to get the curves like them and, so that I would look like them in a bikini and not have belly rolls because no one likes that, no guys will be interested if you have that. Seeing all these girls looking like this made me torture myself. I went on all these stupid diets that were not good for me because I was barely old enough to be on these diets. Still, I went on it, and let me say it did not help at all, well as it did nothing for me, it honestly made my body worse because I was not eating full meals or meals with the right nutrients, so it was not helping me in any way possible. I thought eating just lettuce would make me lose fat and make me look like them seeing them eat all their salads, and if they did eat something like a treat nothing would happen to them, no bloating or anything, they looked like how they did before. I would say I have learned over the years of loving myself more and learning more about everything to not care what people think about you, this is a big one for me I used to care so much and I truly thought about it and now I honestly don’t care what people think about me, so many people I said things that now it just does not bother me at all, which I feel much happier this way. The second thing I have learned which was a shock to me at the time all those girls who are TikTok as well as Instagram influencers not all but some or most of their bodies aren’t real, they get edited in pictures or they have gotten Botox, and surgeries to look that way which I did not believe because In TikTok’s or anything, I would not have thought that because they look so natural, but they weren’t. So, I decided to embrace my natural hair and take care of it, so my hair does not end up dead and wear my curly hair more or at least I have not straightened my hair as much, as I used to and am now taking more care and protecting it more. I started going to the gym not to look like the models, but to look good for myself mostly because I wanted to get into the gym as a hobby because it is good for your health, and doing weight training is something that can help your body and cardio is good for your heart, so it makes your overall body health better. Social media has taught me so much so what I took away from it was that I should not care about what people say about me which has helped me better, and made me a better person, as well as not everybody is natural some people do fake things to themselves and not real they might fix or want something bigger on their bodies which not all of them some of them might feel more confident that way.

For English, I used critical thinking for my Friday write #4 when I was talking about how social media influenced me, I took critical thinking as I needed to develop an idea to write about and come up with a plan and how I was going to write it and make people see what I was trying to say. I had I question, and I answered it and I investigated it and made sure I had the right amount of knowledge about the topic, as I have been through this, I wanted to write about something that I had a passion for, and that other people had experienced it too. I analyzed and went back and forth on how this topic made me feel and wanted to put my judgment out there about how this topic made me feel and other girls. This topic was important to me so I wanted to write about something that I had a passion for and that I have felt, so I chose this topic and I think it goes with critical thinking very well.