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Thousands of people are posting videos like this,mostly teenage girls, reaching out in this way.
有成千上萬的人們上傳這樣的視頻，他們中大部分都是十幾歲的女孩，用這種方式來接觸外界。
But what's leading them to do this?
然而是什么導致他們這樣做的呢？
Well, today's teenagers are rarely alone.
今天的青少年很少獨處。
They're under pressure to be online and available at all times,talking, messaging, liking, commenting, sharing, posting a it never ends.
他們被迫上網并隨時保持在線，聊天、發信息、點贊、評論、分享、上傳—無休無止。
Never before have we been so connected,so continuously, so instantaneously, so young.
我們之前從來沒有如此被緊密地聯系，而且是如此地無休無止、如此快速，如此年輕。
And as one mom told me, it's like there's a party in their bedroom every night.
正如一位媽媽跟我說的，似乎每天晚上他們的臥室里都有聚會。
There's simply no privacy.
簡直毫無隱私。
And the social pressures that go along with that are relentless.
而由此伴隨而來的社會壓力也是殘酷的。
This always-on environment is training our kids to value themselves based on the number of likes they get and the types of comments that they receive.
這種永遠在線的環境將我們的孩子訓練成要靠通過他們獲得的點贊數量和收到的評論來肯定自己的價值。
There's no separation between online and offline life.
沒有線上和線下之分，
What's real or what isn't is really hard to tell the difference between.
很難區分什么是真實的什么不是真實的，
And it's also really hard to tell the difference between what's authentic and what's digitally manipulated.
也很難區分現實和虛擬世界。
What's a highlight in someone's life versus what's normal in the context of everyday.
也分不清日常生活和精彩時光。
And where are they looking to for inspiration?
那他們又從哪里去獲得靈感呢？
Well, you can see the kinds of images that are covering the newsfeeds of girls today.
你可以看看那些今天出現在各種新聞中女孩的形象。
Size zero models still dominate our catwalks.
零號尺寸模特仍然統治著T形臺。
Airbrushing is now routine.
修飾照片現在也很常見。
And trends like thinspiration, thighgap,bikinibridge and proana.
現在的趨勢是勵瘦、大腿間距、比基尼橋和安娜運動。
For those who don't know, proana means pro-anorexia.
要跟那些不明白這些的人提一下，安娜運動的意思是支持厭食。
These trends are teamed with the stereotyping and flagrant objectification of women in today's popular culture.
這些趨勢與今天的流行文化中對女性的刻板印象和公然物化結合在一起。
It is not hard to see what girls are benchmarking themselves against.
從中不難看出女孩子們是怎樣定位自己的。
But boys are not immune to this either.
但是男孩子們對此也不能幸免。
Aspiring to the chiseled jaw lines and ripped six packs of superhero-like sports stars and playboy music artists.
他們渴望擁有輪廓分明的下巴線條和像英雄般的體育明星以及花花公子音樂藝術家所擁有的六塊腹肌。
