How Social Media Filters Are Destroying Our Mental Health | The Daily Show Throwback

A lot of the people who help design social media platforms won’t let their children use social media. That tells you enough there.

I’m a therapist working with youth and not only do I struggle with this but the kids are even worse. It’s sooooo sad

"nose can appear wider and larger" me, a Black man, wondering why that's bad...

It's truly ridiculous when you meet a person who you've only known online for the first time and can't even tell its them because of all the filtering they used on their photos

There's going to be a whole generation that's going to wonder why they don't look like their parents.

With a filter or not. Everything and everyone look better in real life. Use the internet, don't let the internet use you.

Social media has been wild for awhile now and it’s only getting worse

And as a photographer I don’t offer photoshopping on any of my clients. And when they see themselves with no filter or photoshopping and they can’t believe how beautiful they are it both makes me happy they see themselves finally but sad that it took having a professional photographer with the proper lenses to show that what they actually look like

We also need to educate our kids that such photo manipulation is happening and not to believe what they see. It is becoming affordable to do the same to video in real time so we have to start questioning everything we watch in all contexts.

Hey Trevor, I enjoy the way you speak about these serious issues in our community and also make us laugh at the same time. Thanks for this man