Friday, January 6, 2017

Trend Alert! | Everyone Hates Themselves

A new theme I have noticed through media is that people really hate themselves. They are constantly judging themselves and posting about it. Whether they are seeking sympathy or not, I don't know. But because it is so easy to send hate to someone through a screen, that happens a lot, which will just perpetuate a cycle. A constant "I hate myself" and "We hate you too." Not only are these people getting judged without asking, some are even asking for it.
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 Just the other day, my friend posted on their Snapchat story, "Swipe up and tell me how attractive I am on a scale of 1 - 10." Shocked by this, I swiped up and just typed "omg." I couldn't believe someone would ask the "public" what they thought of them. It is not really the public because it is only people they add as well, they know each other so they may be more biased to not want to hurt their feelings. 

Image result for 1 - 10I got a reply back saying, "what." To which I replied with a spiel about how you shouldn't put yourself out there to be judge. And the answer I got in return really shocked me. They told me that they believed that they were a 3 on the 10 scale and gave reasons why. They were too fat to be attractive and too ugly for anyone to have a crush on them. So want to have others tell them what they believed and then he could find an average number for him. My automatic response was to say look at who you are talking to. My way of being empathetic was to bash myself.


It has taken me a long time to be okay with my body and know I probably will never have the "perfect" body. But even still I can feel insecure about thing no one else notices. Social media has caused not only ourselves to be our worst critic, but to allow for many other individuals to do so, just to make their flaws seem lesser.
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  1. AshleyMJanuary 8, 2017 at 1:46 PM

    I've noticed an increase in these types of self-hate posts on the Internet as well. At first it was concerning to most people, but now it's just something that everyone does. What's stranger is that people have be starting to say these type of things more frequently in real life. I have plenty of friends who constantly pick apart themselves and say really awful things. It really isn't healthy, and causes other people around them to be very concerned, and also become more critical of themselves.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 11, 2017 at 7:07 PM

    Finally someone is saying this!! Every time I see a "I hate myself" tweet or story, it upsets me because I know that they are such great people and I want them to think about themselves the way their friends think about them. People are always so judgmental of themselves (I'm guilty of this also), and it's just really sad.

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