How Snapchat and Instagram beauty filters destroy our self-confidence – TRT World

Social media apps encourage perfectionism and damage human psychology, particularly affecting teenagers, and can even push them to the point of suicide. ”I just hate this blue eyes filter! As if it’s ugly to have brown eyes,” says Berra Demir, a 19-year-old student from Istanbul, as she took an Instagram selfie with one of its filters on that gave her brown eyes a bluish effect.  When asked to take a picture without a filter, she said she is not confident enough with the way she looks.”I don’t find my normal self beautiful.”Demir’s answer reveals a deep complexity many men and women face in general today. In our “screen time” period, we express ourselves with the pictures we put on social media applications such as Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. But the edits that we make to our photos – from changing the complexion of our face to the colour of our eyes – tempts us to hide our ”normal” selves. Think a little, how many filters can you count? Blue eyes, small noses, a perfectly shaped face, a thinner body, lighter skin tone, flushed cheeks, and even gender reassignment… Apart from these, there are now also apps that only consist of filters to…
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