Social Media As A Source Of Self- Objectification
Self-monitoring is an idea created by Mark Snyder that explains how people regulate their behavior in social situations to accommodate themselves and fit in. People will scrutinize what they say or hold themselves back at certain times. They are more concerned with stating the precise things and fitting in then being your true self. People who self monitor daily, for example at work don't have many close friends there because they don't allow themselves to truly open up. Acquiring numerous friends for different things. People who don't self monitor or do it very rarely, don’t tone down their personality, despite their social environment. The social environment doesn’t alter how they act. Whether you self monitor isn’t a pro or a con it’s just how different people approach others. Some ways work more effective for others, and either approach is better than the other.
Self- objectification is when you think of yourself from the perspective of others as a toy rather than a person. Both of these concepts tie into symbolic interactionism; when people communicate using language. It’s the way people interact otherwise with various symbols. For example, greetings we used to talk to each other would be considered a symbolic interactionism. Different objects or situations acquire different meanings depending upon groups of ethnicity, religion, or class. Social media plays a big role I think in self-objectification and self-monitoring. When there are commercials or magazines where the women face isn’t being shown but her body is, it portrays the notion that the women are to be looked at for pure visual purposes. As a teenager in today's society, it is easy to want to compare and look like people you see on the media but when the media. I have seen my friends personally been affected by these things which lead to things such as fat shaming.
Social media is a platform for things such as self-objectification. On a platform such as Instagram, we can photoshop and filter ourselves to look better. When we put ourselves on social media like this we are objectifying ourselves as an object to be seen for others viewing pleasure. Self-objectification correlates with female competition and how women strive for male attention without even realizing it. It’s become social manner to objectify ourselves and use social media as a platform to do it. To stop this objectification, we need to start seeing our bodies as more than just an object but for its an entire purpose. Media needs to stop putting ads out there telling women “weight-loss" tips. Best product for clear skin. ” These ads are informing people to perfect themselves and how to develop themselves better for society, because according to society there is nothing better than looking good. You are not just your breast, face, legs, or anything else. The entertainment world and reality line have been blurred, and it’s up to us to fix it. Allowing ourselves to compare ourselves and others to the airbrushed women we see on billboards will purely cause us harm.
