I think this is true, but they didn’t have every move tracked on social media. Even before I read the article, I said aloud to myself, “It’s the da## Snapchat.” One of my friends who is responsible for overseeing an ad agency’s social media efforts was telling me that teenage girls are expected to get at least 300 likes per each Instagram post or there is pressure to take the post down. Girls will go so far as to create multiple accounts so that they can follow themselves and make it look like they have even more followers. The other day, D20 gave me her phone for a couple of hours while she was studying for a test because she was getting distracted by Snapchat notifications. In that short amount of time I had her phone, she received something like 244 snaps.
I see a lot of my D20 in the article, and yes, she does put way too much pressure on herself to be “perfect” and I can already see some signs of anxiety and depression. I’ve been telling her that she doesn’t have to be perfect, but now I’m going to try the article’s suggestion about explaining how society has put unreal expectations on girls. Maybe it will help.