Negative Impacts of Foodstagram

The use of social media cannot be separated from human life in this era, particularly
Indonesian in doing daily activities by using social media. Social media is the connection or
communication between two people or more through online media. According to a book
entitled Panduan Optimalisasi Media Sosial written by The Ministry of Commerce of The
Republic of Indonesia or Kementerian Perdagangan RI revealed that social media is an online
tool which is the users can use aplikasi berbasis internet (2014:20) they can share,
participate, create konten berupa blog, wiki, forum, jejaring sosial, dan ruang dunia virtual
yang disokong oleh teknologi multimedia yang kian canggih" (2014:20). Based on the
description above, social media includes facebook, line, twitter, instagram, path, and other
applications. People can do many activities on social media. One of the discussed types of
social media is instagram. This type is particular for uploading photos and videos. Activities
of uploading one or some food pictures on instagram is usually called foodstagramming.
Besides many advantages of social media, there are many disadvantages of social media.
Foodstagram seems to be a habit in society in this era. Year by year, the use of social media
has changed from to communicate, sell products until to show pictures or videos to everyone.
Seen from the use of instagram such as, showing photos or videos, foodstagram only seems
like to make people slobber of uploaded food pictures or show off what people have eaten.
Negative impacts may appear of using social media. The appearance of food pictures
on Instagram can add the desire of eating then lead to overweight, lack of enjoying food,
changing behaviour at the eating time, and appearing a bad etiquette. The use of instagram
and the activity of foodstagramming have spread for several years lately. They
(foodstagrammers) may not realize that the activity have appeared many negative impacts.
Those negative impacts can lead us to bad habits. If seeing some food photos in
instagram, we may have more desire to eat foods which are showed. In this era, the
phenomena of foodstagram can damage the health of people. Perhaps, there are some people
who cannot control their desire to eat. According to The Huffington Post quoting a chief of
psychiatry at Womens College Hospital at the University of Toronto, Dr. Valerie Taylor
revealed that obsessively documenting ones meals could be a signal of a larger dieting
problem. For dieting people, foodstagram can devastate their dieting plan. It can lead them
to a fatter body furthermore obesity. Most people want to express their pride of eating meals
from well-known restaurant or a popular hang-out. According to daily mail, reporting that the
study of 2012 conducted by the University of Southern California found that spending a lot
of time looking at appetising food online stimulated the brain and causes people to eat too
much. In addition, seeing food picture on instagram can appear queasy feeling.
Foodstagrammers are expected able to pay attention of their photos because each person has a
different taste of their food. I refer to daily edge, quoting the study of The Brigham Young
Universitys School of Management revealed that, You dont have to try the food to grow
sick of it, but merely seeing the grub is enough. The existence of foodstagram gradually can
make most people annoyed. They cannot enjoyably eat their meal anymore. A professor of
the study, Ryan Elder said that the result is all about satiation . People are supposed to
enjoy their meals instead of taking photos. Foodstagram also has changed people behaviour.

They cannot get the essence of food because of taking food photos and uploading to
instagram. This activity seems to be the centre of attention on people when they eat.
Taking food pictures can be the habit. Many restaurants ban taking some photos of
food and uploading those to social media particularly instagram. According to marketing
profs website, quoting the New York Times that New York City restaurants are banning
customers from taking photos of their food, a debate erupted about proper social etiquette and
consumers use of social media. Banning of foodstagramming activities is a great rule.
People used to put their phones on their dinner table for doing or receiving a call but this era,
they often take photos of food instead of doing a call. This habit can get worse when
foodstagrammers want their food pictures to seem awesome to be uploaded on instagram.
Thus, the existence of foodstagram can damage human life. Foodstagrammers are
supposed to look at negative impacts of what they have done on instagram.

References:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/instagramming-food-problemfoodstagramming_n_3230129.html
https://blog.hootsuite.com/dining-social-media/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/restaurant-photo-ban-death-of-foodporn_n_2543306.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2321307/Foodstagrammers-arent-just-annoyingpsychological-problem-saysleading-psychiatrist.html
http://m.marketingprofs.com/opinions/2013/23872/foodstagram-or-4-ways-restaurants-canharness-consumer-generated-social-media
www.dailyedge.ie/instagramming-food-may-damage-your-tastebuds-1119634-Oct2013/