One interesting thing I found looking at Facebook these last two days is the use of Instagram. Now that Facebook bought Instagram, the use has definitely gone up. It is easy to upload pictures right from the app now and edit any picture you want. One question this raises is why do people edit their pictures? Some may do it because it makes them look better, others may do it to see the different effects that can be put on a picture. Either way, the picture is changed and the image is different, more enhanced, less realistic than the original. How does this affect body image? Having a more tanned, whiter smile, and dark features makes many people look more attractive, some would say. Is this changing the way we view others in reality? Do we feel some kind of deceit when we see these people in real life as opposed to in a picture that has been edited with Instagram? These questions are important to ask because as time goes by, more and more pictures are being edited and Instagram's popularity is taking over.
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