Is it dangerous to have a public Instagram account
Advantageously filtered selfies, dreamy sunsets or snow-capped peaks, seemingly perfect lives… On Instagram, everything looks marvelous and impeccable. To the point of causing anxiety and low self-esteem in some users.
This is the result of a study by British researchers from the Royal Society for Public Health of nearly 1,500 teenagers and young adults using social networks. Her conclusion: Instagram is the most harmful social network for mental health and well-being.
Based on the art of staging (necessarily advantageous) of one's own life, the app maintains this feeling specific to the time: the FOMO, or “fear of missing out”, that is to say the fear of missing an inescapable moment. (one of our journalists suffers). Not to mention the social anxiety and the devaluation of your own body, given the protruding abs and #healthy parade on the homepage. Conversely, YouTube appears to be the social network with the most beneficial effects: reduced anxiety, depression and feelings of loneliness.
One of the researchers concludes in the report: “Young people have told us that social media has both a positive and negative impact on their mental state. It's interesting to see Instagram and Snapchat ranked lowest in terms of impact on mental health and well-being; both of these platforms are very image-centric and it seems they arouse feelings of anxiety, and out of place, in young people. "
Fanny Georges, semiologist and lecturer at the Sorbonne, specialist in self-representation and digital identity, explains: “Instagram is an application very much linked to affect. Its presentation in the form of images, with little or no wording, implies a very emotional relationship to the content, not necessarily rationalized. Instagram's pernicious side, she says, is its home page, which puts everything on the same level; personal photos and other posts. “We compare,” she summarizes, “we see the number of likes of others. "...
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