HOUSTON — Instagram influencers peddle a lot of stuff – everything from sunglasses to sketchy diet drinks and the latest frontier is medical treatments.
Let's connect the dots.
Sponsored Instagram posts are nothing new but experts are pretty worried about this latest trend.
You might have seen them – posts plugging medication for psoriasis even Botox and breast implants.
The problems say advertising experts is important safety information can gets lost among the pictures of sunset and close ups of flowers.
Also since influencers are selling a lifestyle, followers might get the impression that the only way to get that lifestyle is use medical treatments with some pretty serious risks.
Federal regulators are having a tough time keeping up with social media savvy advertisers, so some posts might not pass the smell test.
The best advice for all social media – we're talking everything from your college friends picture perfect life to the influencer peddling a diabetes device – is to take everything with a grain of salt.
