How do networks manage to influence our lives?

Now we are going to dig a little more about social networks and their influence using Instagram as an example to analyze. For those of you who are not familiar with this social network, it is based on sharing images. On the one hand, you have your profile where you upload your photos, with that profile you can follow friends and be followed, and then on the other hand you have a space where you see photos from other profiles that vary depending on your interests. But not only your friends or people around you have a profile on this network, so do companies, as well as the best-known personalities in the world. So it is common that we are often exposed to images that correspond to a standard of living that is far from ours. This type of application creates beauty standards, for example, that seeing them continuously provokes a much greater influence than that of conventional advertising.

influence on youth

The most affected by this phenomenon are young people. They are the ones who use new technologies the most and at the same time the most easily influenced sector of the population. It is clear that social networks have many positive aspects, but we must also be aware of their dangers.