Social media leading to cosmetic surgery?

Social media leading to cosmetic surgery?

 

 

Social Media

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary social media is any forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos). Currently the most popular platforms are Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Pinterest and Snapchat.

History

When did it become popular? Why?

 

Six Degrees is considered the first form of social media due to introducing features that allowed people to sign up with their email address, make individual profiles, and then add friends to their personal network. This was officially launched in 1997 and was named after the “six degrees of separation” theory, which states that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by no more than six degrees of separation. In 2000their number of users peaked at around 3.5 million.

The first “modern” model of social media was Friendster. It was created in 2002 and was Six Degrees’s main competition. It offered all the social media benefits that Six Degrees did but also allowed the users to share videos, photos, and messages with other users, and they were also able to leave comments on other people’s profiles, so long as they were part of each other’s personal network. Its popularity grew quickly, accumulating over 3 million users within its first few months and growing to eventually reach over one hundred million users

 

 

Most popular

From 2005 until early 2008, Myspace was the most visited social networking site in the world, attracting 75.9 million unique visitors a month at its 2008 peak.

 

According to Apple’s App store charts the 5 most popular apps downloaded are

YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, Facebook which are all social media platforms.

 

Cosmetic Surgery

Def: surgery done to improve a person’s appearance

Cosmetic surgery focuses on body enhancement, while plastic surgery reconstructs body parts that has been damaged due to disease, burns, or trauma.

According to survey results, the overall number of facial plastic surgery procedures in 2019 increased by 6 percent, with the most common procedures being performed were rhinoplasty, facelifts and blepharoplasty (surgery to correct drooping eyelids).

 

1. Breast augmentation (313,735 procedures, up 4 percent from 2017)
2. Liposuction (258,558 procedures, up 5 percent from 2017)
3. Nose reshaping (213,780 procedures, down 2 percent from 2017)
4. Eyelid surgery (206,529 procedures, down 1 percent from 2017)
5. Tummy tuck (130,081 procedures, about the same as 2017)

Among the 15.9 million cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures performed in 2018, the top 5 were:

1. Botulinum Toxin Type A (7.44 million procedures, up 3 percent from 2017)
2. Soft Tissue Fillers (2.68 million procedures, up 2 percent from 2017)
3. Chemical Peel (1.38 million procedures, up 1 percent since 2017)
4. Laser hair removal (1.1 million procedures, down 1 percent from 2017)
5. Microdermabrasion (709,413 procedures, down 4% from 2017)

 

 

Increase from 2000-2019

Surgical

 

Procedure	2019	2000	% Change
Breast lift (Mastopexy)	113,188	52,836	114%
Breast augmentation (Augmentation mammaplasty)**	299,715	212,500	41%
Buttock lift	4,453	1,356	228%
Tummy tuck (Abdominoplasty)	123,427	62,713	97%
Nose reshaping (Rhinoplasty)	207,284	389,155	-47%

 

Minimally Invasive

Botulinum Toxin Type A (Botox®, Dysport®, Xeomin®)	7,697,798	786,911	878%
Cellulite treatment (Velosmooth®, Endermology)	35,554	23,952	48%
Chemical peel	1,387,607	1,149,457	21%

 

(American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2019)

 

 

The Combination

 

Texas-based facial plastic surgeon Ashley Gordon. Interview with allure magazxine”Patients bring in Instagram posts from fitness models to show me what they want their breasts to look like, [and] the same is true for lips, brows, noses, jawlines, and skin, just to name the most popular requested treatments from social media,” Gordon says. “These images can be very helpful because it’s a non-verbal way for patients to communicate their desired result, [however] I do often have to remind patients that photos of the most beautiful people in the world have been photoshopped, Facetuned, or filtered.”

 

 

Questionnaire

 

1) How much do you spend on social media per day*?

Half an hour

1-3 hours

3-5 hours

More than 5 hours

 

2) How often do you comment on other people’s profile?

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

Yearly

Never

 

3) While viewing other people’s profile do you compare yourself with them?

Yes

No

Sometimes

 

4) Does the number of likes on your picture or status affect you?

Yes

No

Sometimes

 

5) Why do you use social media*?

Building relationships

Medium of communication

Information Fulfill

affiliation needs

Other(please specify)

 

6) Have you ever gottencosmetic surgery?

Yes	No (skip question 7)

 

7) Which part of your body have you had cosmetic surgery on?(select all that applies)

Face

Neck

Below Neck & Above Waist

Below Waist

 

8) Have you ever considered getting plastic surgery?

Yes	No (skip question 9)

 

9) Which part of your body have you considered getting cosmetic surgery on? (select all that applies)

Face

Neck

Below Neck & Above Waist

Below Waist

 

Instructions: Below is a list of statements dealing with your general

feelings about yourself. Please indicate the level of your satisfaction on a

scale of 1-4 with 4 being the highest level of satisfaction.

 

	1	2	3	4
1.On the whole, I am satisfied with myself.
2. At times I think I am no good at all.
3. I would like to be more attractive in my “selfies.”
4. I feel like my body type is accepted in society.
5. I am satisfied with my body type.
6. If money or medical issues weren’t a problem, I would change something on my body.
7. I feel that I’m a person of worth, at least on an equal plane with others.
8. If I changed something on my body I would consider myself more attractive
9. I feel self-conscious when I look at models/influencers on social media .
10. I take a positive attitude toward myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Social media includes but is not limited to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Sna