As a camp counselor of preteen girls, I am updated with the latest trends in social media and improvements to personalize smartphones. I decided to write a relevant article to the "Virtual Girls" blog on how social media encourages its users (often teenage girls) to document their daily lives. In return, these girls gain followers and an apparent "fanbase," which is similar to the celebrities whom they admire. I researched an image that shows Demi Lovato, Kim Kardashian and Simon Cowell engaging in popular Snapchat filters, which promote the popularity of the app and its features. The dog filter that adds ears, a nose and tongue to its users has gained mixed feelings, as girls have often posed flirtatiously with it selected. Options like this create a duality of silliness and sexiness that girls desire to showcase on their profiles, which attempt to summarize how they want others to view them online.
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