This isn’t the first time Danica Patrick has used her platform to talk about the dangers of social media. The retired NASCAR driver has previously posted to her millions of followers about positive and negative body images and how they obviously shouldn’t assume all photos portray reality.
She recently took that message a step further and talked more generally about potential problems and contradictions created by social media.
Posted on Instagram along with a photo of snow-capped mountains through an airplane window, Patrick highlighted the contradictions of social media while, ironically, using social media.
She wrote in the caption:
Social media. It’s such a weird thing.
It’s suppose to be “real”, but it’s not. It’s suppose to be fun, except it makes us feel bad about ourselves.
It’s suppose to be a way to connect, except we disconnect from someone sitting right next to us while we are on it.
Let’s just try and use it to spread positivity, educate, and inspire.
Enough selfies with no caption.
Enough filters.
Enough abuse with words.
Enough judging an edited photoshopped highlight reel against your life.
Let’s level up. ……maybe the next time you’re flying somewhere…you don’t buy the WiFi and you look out the window while holding a great book you’re reading. ✨
In the past, Patrick has posted side-by-side examples of “real” and “produced” images showing how people’s bodies can be “stylized” to look a certain way.
Patrick was recently overseas with her boyfriend and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and she regularly documents their world travels on social media. To celebrate her 37th birthday last week, he surprised her with a trip to Paris, and then it appears they went skiing too, based on her Instagram account.
