In Social Media Affordances of Ephemerality and Permanence: Social Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Body Image Concerns by D. Kim and S. Kim, they focus on the impacts of ephemeral versus permanent content on social channels like Instagram (more permanent but some ephemeral content in stories) and Snapchat (largely ephemeral). It presented research which assessed this concept through multiple hypotheses to find a correlation between various independent, dependent, and controlled variables. The findings were fascinating and emphasized the impacts of the introduction of social media, specifically Instagram and Snapchat, and the adoption of elements like filters for photos. The filters and ability to adjust the reality of images is one of the reasons there are higher instances of low self-esteem, body concerns, feelings of envy, ungratefulness, and a desire to have an ideal self-image presented. This did not exist before the adoption of social media. The more time people obsess and f...
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