The team polled 2,000 American social media users. It revealed:
Jessica DiGiacinto, the lead editor at Forbes Health, commented, “Although social media can have many benefits, such as helping people keep in touch with friends or learn new skills, it can also have harmful elements, such as creating unhealthy ideas of how we should and shouldn’t look. Clinical psychologists have noted that social media can be a trigger for upward social comparison, which is the process of comparing ourselves to people we have put on pedestals and can cause us to set unrealistic expectations for how we should look, dress and behave.
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