Analyzing The Shopping Horrors Of Teenagers In America

Photo Shopping Horrors In order to grab society’s attentions, the media will go to any measure to get people drawn into the details of celebrity’s lives. The way the media and advertising companies display models in magazines and even on television sends a negative message to American society. These pictures and images are altered to make the women models appear to be thinner, have perfect complexion, or have larger breasts. The women are not at all what they seem. The problem is that young teenagers oftentimes take these pictures too seriously and immediately believe that that is how they are supposed to look and feel. Too many girls are falling into the traps and lies that the media presents to society and since the media is such a
I myself have come to idolize the women in magazines today, who are seen as beautiful, and I have created my definition of “pretty” based on these leading figures. Everyday, people look up to their role models, whether they are siblings, friends or people they see in magazines and television. Because of this, the images that the media and advertising companies puts out into society, strongly affect the way teenagers live their lives. Especially young girls who are more naïve and more susceptible to believe anything they hear are affected most. These are the girls who are also more likely to do anything they can in order to be happy and beautiful. In that stage of life many do not realize the other factors that can truly make one happy. If someone is not content with the life they live, they tend to rely on fashion magazines for the answers. When they see famous people, happy and beautiful in pictures, they want to imitate their lives and everything detail about them. This sends the message that in order to be happy and beautiful, a person therefore needs to have a perfect complexion, body, clothes and smile, just like those models. These thoughts run through people’s minds on a daily basis and cause them to make decisions that can real to rational habits and
Americans are so dependent on the media that if it is lying to us, there is no way there can be a positive outcome for the people, when they do not know whom they should trust. Since the media is in our everyday lives, it is almost impossible to avoid listening and believing everything they tell us and show us. Understanding how unrealistic photos of perfect models are is an important consciousness that teenagers should have. By educating them at young ages about how models and other important people in the media are exposed, they would feel less pressured to fall into unhealthy and dangerous lifestyles. Parents and teachers should focus on training these teenagers at younger ages so that the media does not take control of how people live their lives. People can therefore strive to fully accept themselves for who they are and stray from the idea of looking as flawless as a photo-shopped