something they do normally every day. but, yeah, they re going to be pretty busy if this seaweed comes up to keep the clean beaches. scientists will tell you they have somewhat of an understanding of the currents and the tide that move this stuff around. still, more research is needed to be able to forecast it. and there is concern that if we try to, you know, quote, fix it or find a solution, it s the ecosystem. there could be unintended consequences here. when i asked him what the best recommendation was? avoid it. don? wow. that would really throw a drag into it s a drag for summer. one of the joys of summer is being able to go to the beach. thank you. appreciate that. all right. it is being called the selfie effect. how picture perfect photo shosh shopped posts are impacting he people s mental health. including that of young girls. sanjay gupta is here to explain next.
thank you. not tiktok, let s be realistic here, there are plenty of other social media sites, social media apps out there where many of us spend a lot more time than we should aimlessly scrolling through posts. i feel like you re looking at me when you re saying that. i m looking directly at you. this is for you. there is more and more we re learning about how that time spent on these apps specifically looking at these seemingly picture perfect images, the impact that that can have on your mood and on your overall psychological health. there is some real effects here, it s known as the selfie effect. dr. sanjay gupta he has been digging into it for the latest episode of his podcast. tell us, there are a lot of parents watching, i m a parent here, tell us what we know about this phenomenon. this is fascinating and i have to tell you i ve learned so much working on this podcast season, as you both know i have three teenage daughters so part of this was a very personal sort of r
sinclair mcbryde about this i asked if you re going to ask the tech companies as brian fung was just talking about, if you are going to ask them to do something with regard to this selfie effect, with regard to filters specifically, what would you do? here is what she said. a lot of filters kind of have a very euro centric lens so it would be great if they did not make people s skin colors lighter or change the shape of their noses or change how big their eyes are or do things that make them towards a certain beauty that may not be from the cultural background that they re from, right? i think that would be really clutch. it would be nice if when you put a filter on it s that you re beautiful as you are, but you can play with this if you want. it s just a tool, just a thing that is here, but also this picture of you without the filter is also really cool. i had never really realized that until she pointed it out. if you look at these filters, they do push these images
anything i did in the media. but this issue of social media and selfies and all that was something that, you know, it s talked about all the time. i learned a lot. which i know is your question. let me say this. this idea that the selfie effect, it s really interesting. first of all, it s a term that was coined by a professor sinclair mcbreide at harvard. it has to do with the idea that we re constantly looking it at the selfies of ourselves, people take a lot of selfies, and comparing them then to these really remarkable photo shopped filtered image that s we see on social media quite a bit. so there is this constant comparison that is happening between ourselves and between these, you know, basically unfathomable images. it can lead to feelings, changes in the brain, people feeling inadequate, requiring more dopamine in order to get the same satisfaction from your own looks. it s really interesting.
these other images you get that selfie impact, selfie effect which can be a negative impact. it makes me think i m going to really date all of you, you know what i m talking about when i say this, this makes me think of when i was the same age as your daughters as my kids when i would look through a magazine and you ultimately compare yourself to an image there that you know is photo shopped as well. how is that different from now the social media generation looking at those images? i think it s two words, it s abundance and persistence. what i mean by that is that magazines in the past, i know exactly what you are talking about, you might read it and then it was a disposable commodity. now you re walking around with these images on your phone and there s tons of them and they re just persistent. they re there all the time. people even though they may not realize it, they re oftentimes now, again, in realtime comparing themselves to those images. that s the part that was sort of st