Now at days a new fashion trend is Bloggers, they are known to share their lifestyles to make other people dream. The ones with the largest costumers based are known to get lucrative businesses deals to promote a brand product threw the use of there personal social media account mostly Instagram.
A couple of weeks ago there was this big buzz all over the internet as for the first time a blogger with at least 500 thousands followers: Essena Oneil decided she was tiered of living the bloggers life and decided three weeks ago to show what she calls it “the true side of social media”. A lot of people were shocked as it is difficult to get a lot of followers and what she did was to throw her blogger career away something a lot of people wish.
Her personal reasons are that she says it is a lot of pressure to always look good. For example she says that for each post she will take at least 50 pictures to fiend a good one. She also says that companies send her clothes to post about them sometimes owning up to 2000$. She says she feels it is not her but a created image that social media and marketing expects her to be. She says that it affected her mental being as she was always to preoccupied to look perfect for her followers that she stopped living a normal life but instead she was living through social media life. Her self-esteem was affected as she judged herself by the amount of followers and likes.
But, a lot of people argue that it was personal and that they use social media to share their values with people and what they stand for in positive ways and that social media is not a bad thing and now it is a growing trend that cannot be stopped.