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Essay / Reflecting on Eating Disorders - 1207
Currently, adolescents are more likely to spend time on social media than watching television or reading magazines (Cohen and Blaszczynski, 2015); personally, I spend 99.9% of my free time on SNS. Given that social networking sites connect “friends…who are generally very similar and socially relevant…”, it is not incredible that SNSs can elicit more meaningful comparative processes; the link “between Facebook and EDs…[is stronger] compared to viewing “Barbie”-type models on television and in magazines” (Cohen & Blaszczynski,