Social media will continue to impact our sense of self and how we view our appearance. What is clear from studying today’s culture and modern life is that social networks magnify the importance of visual images. We are conscious of how we look not just face-to-face but also in the kinds of images that we see others posting and what we ourselves are posting. The impact of magnifying something that we deem important (how we look) is that people who are feeling self-conscious about their looks become anxious. With 64% agreeing with 'My thinning hair makes me feel self-conscious’ in the NIOXIN Global Research, people experiencing hair thinning will be impacted negatively by social media.
Previously photographs were either put aside in an album or tucked away in a drawer after they were taken. Today, we are posting them and they live on in social networks. With this indelibility comes the added fear for people experiencing hair thinning that the image and related negative feelings will continue to reverberate long after the photo has been taken.