Register for the next free webinar on June 15: Nomadding is the new jet-setting 19 May 2021 - 13:12 With screen time at an all-time high, young people are more vulnerable to cyber threats and social media perceptions. Image: 123RF/Milkos
We’re living in a period with greater access to effective health care, vaccinations against disease, more accessible education, and broader transport and trade networks. And though technology, the internet and social media have improved our lives, they come with high risks.
How do we protect young people from cyber harm? This was the focus of the recent Sunday Times GenNext digitised conversation, in partnership with Yellowwood and Gautrain, and moderated by Rianette Leibowitz, a digital parenting author and speaker who raises awareness of cyber safety, cyber wellness and cyberbullying.
Selfies, Surgeries And Self-Loathing: Inside The Facetune Epidemic
The massively popular photo-editing app Facetune is driving a generation of young women to extreme and obsessive lengths to look flawless online.
By Jesselyn Cook
Illustration by Yoshi Sodeoka for HuffPost
Sky Lane scrolled through the pictures from an impromptu photo shoot she’d done with her friend and picked her favorite. It was cute she was showing off her side profile in a black crop top, tight blue jeans, big silver hoops and smoky bronze eyeshadow. But the 21-year-old wouldn’t dare post it to Instagram for the world to see just yet. She opened Facetune, a photo-retouching app on her iPhone, and got to work.
The truth behind supermodel Ashley Graham s unedited naked selfies
5 May, 2021 12:09 AM
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Ashley Graham said she wanted to share posts of her post-partum body because people just don t see those types of pictures enough . Photo / Ashley Graham, Instagram
Ashley Graham said she wanted to share posts of her post-partum body because people just don t see those types of pictures enough . Photo / Ashley Graham, Instagram
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By: Hannah Paine
In a sea of Facetune and Photoshop, supermodel Ashley Graham s Instagram feed is refreshingly real.
A quick glance at her profile – which has 12.6 million followers and counting – and you ll see everything from mirror selfies of the star in her underwear, sweet snaps of her breastfeeding son Isaac and gym workout videos.
Michelle Keegan shares contempt for the weather as she poses in fresh-faced selfie
The TV star spoke for us all when she complained about the need to wear five layers of clothing just to face going outside in freezing and wet weather despite it being May
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