Your Turn Staff Editorial

“I feel like social media effects the way teenagers feel they need to diet because they see all these different types of models and want their bodies to look like that. They believe everything that the internet says, but in reality it’s a lot more work to diet than to just accept your body and be happy with yourself.”

- Ariana Smith, 11

“Too much social media can make people think fake becomes reality and so it can mess with people’s minds and they think they need to do or feel certain things others feel. Put down your phone and hang out with others for 7once.” - Michael Grebb, Principal

“Social media has a tendency to portray a lot of what we think we need to be with how modeling looks nowadays. There’s always a push to the need to be skinnier and it brings a lot of issues for growing girls and boys.”

- Ashes Arrieta, 10

“I feel overweight when I see other people on social media with perfect ideal bodies since I don’t have their ideal figure. But since it’s just social media, I don’t let that get to me.”Andrew Rocha, 10

“Dieting is like a beauty standard that some people may not be able to attain so it can create a lot of negativity for people’s confidence because when they are seeing others going on diets and glorifying it, then they can get insecure about it because it’s the unattainable body they don’t have.”

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Natalia

Flores, 11