Unexpected danger of social networks for children discovered - scientists

Cute snouts in Snapchat, nyashnyebig-eyed young ladies after processing in Meitu, an incredible makeie, made right on the smartphone ... What's wrong with the idea? But researchers from the University of Manchester believe that everyone. The council on bioethics urged mercilessly to burn out hot iron from social networks all applications and online games that allow you to change your appearance. "We were shocked when we realized that the makeup applications and the plastic surgeon games are aimed at girls aged eight to ten years," says Jeanette Edwards, professor of social anthropology at Manchester university, who led the study.A photo: GettyImagesAll these applications are an opportunity. And the reason that encourages girls to virtually change their appearance is advertising and glossy: "Social networks are steadily promoting unrealistic and often discriminatory ideas about how people, especially girls and women, should look." Here you can not argue with the professor. Particularly worried about the specialists is the plastic surgeon toy and its numerous clones. It allows you to modify your appearance - both the face and the body. There are other applications that offer to make a monster beauty with the help of all the same plastic. In the role of the monster - a girl and crooked teeth and excess weight. And it's worth sending her under the knife, as soon as the beauty turns out. "And all this is for the sake of the likes! People are sure that beauty will bring them happiness, will make them successful, "lamented Jeanette Edwards. Well and still celebrities. The same Kylie Jenner, sister Kim Kardashian, does not hide that already by the age of 19 she has fairly redecorated her appearance. But it is successful. And, as it seems from the outside, without putting any effort to it. As a result, according to experts, children almost from the cradle begin to dream about plastic, in order to get closer to their ideal. From here it is already a stone's throw to neurosis, bulimia with anorexia and other misfortunes. And it would seem, just lovely mordashki.Drugoe opinionNatalya Gabovskaya, editor of the rubric "Children": - Immediately make a reservation - I have a child, a teenage daughter. And I think the hysteria around social networks is only far-fetched. "Blue whale"? Yes, have mercy, no child who has everything in order at home, will not rush from the roof at 4:20, because someone there is "zombie". A child who has been sincerely told since childhood that he is beautiful, beautiful and wonderful, will not dream of cutting or growing something there. Or, maybe you do not explain to children what social networks are and what kind of people they inhabit? Do not you explain that the doll is only a doll, and not a role model?Photo:GettyImagesYou can destroy the beauty industry by making it an industry of a rich inner world. Or you can teach your little person to believe in themselves and love themselves. Or maybe we want to destroy the desire to become better, stronger, more beautiful in children? You can try to exclude all possible and impossible dangers from the outside world. Or you can teach them to recognize them and resist them. Or do we want to grow a hothouse plant that will be blown away by the first wind? Children will inevitably encounter the outside world, with its standards of beauty and success. And whether they will develop neurosis at the sight of all these ideals or not depends only on ourselves. And applications - God bless them. Better a virtual make-up than my own cosmetics, smeared everywhere possible.