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'Selfie' body image warning issued

• wanda 13y ago
  > Spending lots of time on Facebook looking at pictures of friends could make women insecure about their body image, research suggests. http://i.imgur.com/8xmRqKM.png http://i.imgur.com/8xmRqKM.png Extra extra! Read all about it! Hot off the press!
• QuantumChaos 13y ago
  >The research, presented at a conference in Seattle, found no link with eating disorders. >But it did find a link between time spent on social networks and negative comparisons about body image. Funny how Bayesian updating works here: this study is taken as evidence that Facebook is harmful to women's body image, but not that evidence against the fact that poor body image causes eating disorders. This is typical of academic research that pushes a political agenda, in this case feminism.