Social media has made a huge impact on every generation, especially Generation Z. While social media has many positive effects, such as giving people the ability to express themselves creatively and even provide jobs such as being an influencer. With the positives come some negatives such as putting pressure on young women to look a certain way and strive for perfection. The use of plastic surgery and photoshop make instagram influencers seem like the perfect human being. This makes women strive for an unachievable body standards. FaceTune is a photo editing app that can help to reshape facial features and your body as well as smooth out any imperfections. It can also fix lighting in photos and add filters to the picture as well. I do not see any issue with adding filters in a photo or fixing the lighting but the issue arises when it becomes taboo to see imperfections posted online. Many women and men will often get hate on their posts if the public sees any flaws in them such as having acne or not being the “ideal” body type. While this is problematic, there has also been a rise in the body positive movement on social media which challenges beauty standards seen and does not conform to the pressure of social media. Overall, social media has its pros and cons but it is important to shed light on the negative aspects of it.

