Eating Disorders: Thinspo Blogs

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Thinspo Blogs

We’re a couple months away from 2013. Eating disorder are getting a lot of media attention again. Websites allowed people to share in a different way back then, and now social media sites are the “new” way. Tumblr stating it was going to start addressing the problem of all the “thinspo” sites appearing on their platform because they don’t want to contribute to the spread of eating disorders. They don’t want people posting those pictures they find in magazines and on “health and fitness” sites. Unfortunately, the attention is coming from sensationalized medical shows blaming sites for the problem while promoting clinics that cost $6000/month if you want treatment from them (though they offer to sponsor a couple people on the show for free — standard marketing costs I suppose). But again, I mean to write about the history of the site, and I am going on a tangent.