• Dr. SANGEETA MAKKAD

This paper examines various issues concerned with body image and usage of social media. Indeed Social media has made forefronts in being the most popular sources of communication in the current generations. The youth of today explores various platforms of social media and is flooded by content in pictures and comments. These create an unrealistic images in mind about beauty and linear weight and thus the self-obsession to match up those ideal images and pictures. Further to this the comparisons to these images create an erosion of self-image. These forms of self-destructing thought patterns influence the youth to an extent that extreme steps in some cases, are towards death. Thus the heavy usage of social media and body image creates a negative image in many men and women and the relationship strongly indicates that.

social media, body image, negative, self-objectification, beauty

"ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN BODY IMAGE ISSUES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no.188-194, October-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRF006031.pdf

"ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN BODY IMAGE ISSUES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no. pp188-194, October-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRF006031.pdf