Why do people bend to the tyrannical pressures of social media? Let's get real
"It’s a question I ask myself when I hear research revealing that, for millennials, Instagrammability is now the No 1 consideration when deciding where to holiday. Or the news last week that half of cosmetic surgeons in the US say that people are asking for procedures to look better in selfies, and that there is a disconcerting increase in the number of people asking for procedures to make them look more like how they do in Snapchat filters: enhanced cheekbones and digitally smooth skin.
Those holiday Instagrams are not for the benefit of the friends who were there – who know that one lagoon Instagram involved a €150, 30-minute-long boat trip and was preceded by a three-hour-long, airless journey in a car where burnt, bare thighs were sweat-sealed to the upholstery. This isn’t old-fashioned peer pressure, which mostly dissipates as you get older and realise that your friends’ lives are bogged down in their own struggles. It’s a new kind of pressure from another group: the people who only get to see the celebrity version of you"
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