My concern is that technology is having a negative influence on society. For example, the television show such as "I Want A Famous Face" on MTV is marketed towards teenagers and young adults. The teenagers and young adults on the show have plastic surgery to reconstruct their outward appearance to imitate their favorite stars. Other examples include Nip/Tuck on FX and Dr. 90210 on E! Entertainment. These shows are marketed towards adults even though a lot of teenagers watch them. Adults on the show have plastic surgery to keep up their outward appearnce to stay with the pressures of the fountain of youth.
I feel that a lot of people have harmed themselves psychologically and physically because of all the pressure to be something else. And then I thinkof questions to ask them... Are they happy? Yes? No? These questions run through my mind every time one of my friends talks about their surgeries.
Although I would never have plastic surgery, I think that parents and teenagers should takes these steps into consideration. Parents should watch their children. Apply rules to what they watch on television, magazines they read, and internet sites they visit. If you children have questions about plastic surgery, seek a psychologist professional help to determine if they are psychologically fit to go through surgery. When seeking a plastic surgeron, make sure they are board certified and seek a second opinion. These guidelines apply to adults! If you do have plastic surgery BE SAFE!!!!
Visit these links:
These three website offer information about plastic surgeons, plastic surgery, and photographs.
http://www.plasticsurgery.org/
This website offers many things including links to information about the different types of surgeries, how to locate surgeons in your area, and photogalleries of the surgries.
http://www.aafprs.org/
This website is for patients, plastic surgeons, and media & exhibitors. It offers where meetings are held, stastitics and polls, online magazine, weekly poll, press releases, physician finders, and among other various items.
http://www.surgery.org/
This website offers the same type of information but it lists the different type of procedures, the technique involved, and the effects of the surgery. I thought this was
helpful to know what a procedure would do to my body if I was to consider having one done.
These two websites are televsion shows that are about plastic surgery.
I Want a Famous Face
http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/i_want_a_famous_face-2/series.jhtml
This website shows different people, how they go through plastic surgery to look like their favorite celeberity, and after the the show.
Nip/Tuck
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/niptuck_s2/index_2.php
This website offers information on the hit TV program Nip/Tuck about plastic surgeons and their business. Their was a game you could play called "Plastic Surgery Tool" where you could actually pick for example eyebrows and place them on a face and see how it would like to change your outer appearance! I thought it was awesome to have that so other people could see before they decided to choose to have surgery.
Awful Plastic Surgeries
http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com
This website criticizes stars who have had surgeries!!!!
