can body-acceptance and social-media exposure coexist?

The growth of social media utilisation in today's society has many effects on how we view our body given how much we are exposed to unrealistic beauty standards dictated by our soulless society. Many researches have undoubtedly shown the correlation between social media consumption and eating disorders since individuals, especially teenagers, tend to compare themselves to instagram and tiktok models or fitness instructors while endlessly scrolling down these apps. These analogies can cause unrealistic expectations about how our bodies should and shouldn’t look which often develops to unhealthy eating habits and eating disorders. However it’s important to realize that celebrities or models beforehand of posting on social media they usually edit their photos with filters or even with photoshop, consequently they create unattainable standards. It is extremely necessary to find a positive way to use social media with the purpose of avoiding a negative body image. For example, we can try unfollowing accounts that make us doubt our self-worth based on our looks. We can find body positive accounts on social media and also countless podcasts on these particular subjects that can make us realise how wrong it is to compare ourselves to what we see on social media and they can help us shift our perspective on what is right and wrong for our specific body type. In conclusion, we can affirm that nowadays social media are endangering body acceptance but ideally they could coexist and even help us.