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Growing up online means navigating pressure, misinformation and privacy risks that most health textbooks have never caught up with. This section covers what to watch for and how to get help safely.
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For most people, yes — comparison against filtered images reliably lowers self-esteem. The images are also not a realistic target, because they are edited, lit, filtered, posed and often de-aged. Curating your feed by following people who look like you actually are is a small intervention with a real effect.
You do not have to accept them, keep them, look at them, or feel guilty about what you do next. In many places there are legal routes to have such images removed, and in some places sending them is a criminal offence. If someone is pressuring you, that is a safeguarding issue, not a you-problem.
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