#NoFilter Series: The Era of Cyborgian Beauty Standards

“What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows” — perhaps we should take this Alexandra Stoddard quote more seriously. The ways in which we use social platforms, apps, and technologies today will impact our lives decades from now. Some of the effects may be reversible, some may not be. At the moment, it is important that we think about where these social platforms and the behaviours they impact are taking us.

As I mentioned in my last blog post, apps like Facetune and social platforms like Snapchat…