Teenagers soak up the implicit messaging in social media. Every time they mindlessly scroll or even engage and comment on a thread, they recreate inner emotional landscapes saturated with judgement, fear and anxiety based on comparing their ho-hum ordinary lives with the spectacularly curated lives of their social media feed. Of all these affects, perhaps the most adverse impact social media has on teenagers is low self-esteem.    Girls are far more likely to suffer from low self-esteem than boys. This is most likely due to the comparison factor in which girls engage– most celebrities and social media influencers are photoshopped, lit, and shot in a beautiful, exotic location. Imagine comparing yourself, post-school, sitting in your bedroom with someone so uber-fabulous, dressed in a teeny tiny bikini, laying on an exotic island. So maybe that’s a bit exaggerated, but that’s how the mind interprets things. The mind interprets different lifestyles as lack: imagine that your friend Ella posts about her uber-fabulous birthday party with baby goat yoga. Everyone is laughing, tumbling around in a goat-yoga-down-dog-fun-house in Ella’s magical backyard. Behind her is a sparkling pool and a table laid out with presents. And you’re not there. You’re not Ella. You’re not one of her friends. And therefore, you aren’t worthy. That’s how the mind works.