Topic chosen: Social Media and Eating Disorders:

The topic I decided to write about is the Effects social media plays on eating disorders. I will talk about in further detail how social media influencers impact specifically teenage girls and their body images over Instagram. In addition, I will research the psychological effects social media plays on the youth.

What I would like to research is how social media can cause insecurities which eventually can lead to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Individuals with eating disorders constantly compare themselves to others, which is a main factor in social media. When a person with an eating disorder sees a photo on Instagram of their favorite model in a bikini looking extremely thin, they can begin to compare themselves and obsess over the image of looking exactly like that model even if it is not realistic to their body type. People become fixated on looking a certain way. 

Some research that I found interesting was on pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia and how there are places on social media that encourage eating disorders. People on this platform can compare body images and give harmful advice to hurt their bodies by not eating.