Body image concerns in adolescents: the impact and influence of social media on students' body images and its remediesSince mass media and social media have become the essential tools for socializing with people, body image concerns in adolescents have become critical issues regarding eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, or body dissatisfaction. Mass media and social media provide a gateway for women to look for beautiful images of what they want to look like, a site for women – especially teenagers – to look for diet routines and exercise routines, as well as a generator through which women Teenagers can imitate the clothing of their idolized stars and celebrities. Female body images and idolized images of female beauty are distorted and portrayed by mass media and social media such as news, magazines, television and Facebook. Social media – such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram – have made it possible to discuss and analyze bodies in ways that promote eating disorders and body dissatisfaction. Tiggemann and Slaster state, “Sociocultural theory holds that the current excessively thin ideal of beauty for women is transmitted by a variety of sociocultural influences, of which the media are the most persuasive and powerful” (630). Today, as mass media and social media are becoming more easily accessible to adolescents and students in the new world of digital media, rates of eating disorders among adolescents are on the rise and the possibility of the danger of having stereotypes about body thinness le images are constantly increasing. According to Smolak's research data, “During adolescence, perhaps 70% of girls want to be thinner. Usually, stu... in the center of the card... Harcourt. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. 128-135. Press.National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. Network. http://www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics/National Institute of Mental Health. “Eating disorders”. 2011. Network. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/eating-disorders/eating-disorders.pdfTiggermann, Marika, and Amy Slaster. “Net Girls: The Internet, Facebook, and Body Image Concern in Adolescent Girls.” International Journal of Eating Disorders 46.6, 630-633, 2013. Print.Vonderen, Kristen E. Van, and William Kinnally. “Media Effects on Body Image: Examining Media Exposure in the Broader Context of Internal and Other Social Factors.” American Communication Journal 14.2, 41-53, 2012. Wykes, Maggie, and Barrie Gunter. The media and body image: if appearance could kill. London: Sage P, 1987. Print.