Friday, February 20, 2026

Blog Post #41: Second Instagram Post

For my second Instagram post, I'm going to use an advertisement. This advertisement will be for mental health statistics related to social media. It may seem ironic that it will be posted on a social media platform, but I believe that the word will be spread a little easier, and audiences will understand a little bit of what the film is actually about without the full plot being exposed.


Here is my reference for this instagram post while I make it:


While this is nothing special, I believe that this form of advertisement will have a more impactful appearance on audiences due to the information that it has inside of it. However, this is only inspiration, and I will not be using that much information on it since I want the advertisement on Instagram to be short and sweet- not too wordy.


To start, I'm going to find common statistics that social media has in relation with the mental health of teenagers. For a piece of evidence, I will use this quote from yalemedicine.org. "According to a research study of American teens ages 12-15, those who used social media over three hours each day faced twice the risk of having negative mental health outcomes, including depression and anxiety symptoms." 

For my second piece of evidence, I will use a quote from hhs.gov. "Children and adolescents who spend more than 3 hours a day on social media face double the risk of mental health problems including experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety. And when asked about the impact of social media on their body image, 46% of adolescents aged 13-17 said social media makes them feel worse."

I will be using these quotes because I feel like they accurately respond to the situation based on mental health.


 So, to create this "flyer" I'm going to use Canva. I will show my process below.



Step one... find a good flyer layout. Check! This flyer uses the bubbly font that most teenagers would be attracted to.



So, at this point, I've replaced the main title to one more fitting for the instagram post. Then, I decided to delete the "Paguetes" because the website would not let me change the text, and I thought that the whole flyer would be too much for the human eye to read and still be interested in.


As you can see, I inserted the quotes that I chose earlier on and I changed the other texts on the flyer. Also, I needed another piece of evidence for my "hot take", so I used part of a title from a CNN article which was "Nearly half of teens say social media is bad for youth mental health."



Here it is: the finished product. This flyer did not take me long, but I feel like it will have enough of an influence on people to the point where it will grab their attention.

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