Those Self-Shot Facebook Photos
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Those Self-Shot Facebook Photos
You know what I mean. Can you imagine someone's reaction if you posted that online even 10 years ago? Now it seems the norm for people to post these vane photos of themselves either with a totally unnatural smile or weird pout. More females do it than guys. It's like they think they are modelling for a perfume poster or something. They look nothing like that in real life.
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Well, that pouting thing is getting old-fashioned now. Very annoying indeed. What they get by pouting is beyond my understanding. Little girls are deluded, but even older wimmins' pics can be seen with their mouth looking like their shrivelled @rsehole. Ridiculous.
People who post their selfies repeatedly are the people that are very insecure of their looks, and want appreciation from people on line. That's my view.
It's all coming from women being valued for their looks. That's a deeper issue, but coming back to the localised spread of the disease, i.e. repeated selfies with pout are plain stupid. One or two bi-annually is fine, as no one is interested in what you looked like when you were 16. People grow old and change. Keep it real without the trout pout.
People who post their selfies repeatedly are the people that are very insecure of their looks, and want appreciation from people on line. That's my view.
It's all coming from women being valued for their looks. That's a deeper issue, but coming back to the localised spread of the disease, i.e. repeated selfies with pout are plain stupid. One or two bi-annually is fine, as no one is interested in what you looked like when you were 16. People grow old and change. Keep it real without the trout pout.
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Mind you, if Facebook or Twitter type of places made a rule that all wimmins and mens should post their pictures with no smile, no make up, no photochop etc. for the reality identification purpose only, then everyone would look like a prisoner on the run.
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Haha great topic.
What makes me laugh is the people on facebook that post photos that are exactly the same.......
Out 'on the pi$$' on a Friday and Saturday, in the same places, with the same people, drinking the same drinks, taking self-photos whilst pulling a stupid looking face. That is their life in a nutshell lol!!
No doubt we all know someone like that!!
What makes me laugh is the people on facebook that post photos that are exactly the same.......
Out 'on the pi$$' on a Friday and Saturday, in the same places, with the same people, drinking the same drinks, taking self-photos whilst pulling a stupid looking face. That is their life in a nutshell lol!!
No doubt we all know someone like that!!
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Too ******* right, I do. She's nearly 40 (not old imo) so I might have thought she would be a bit more mature, but no. I just cringe at the thought of her poor kids ever seeing these photos.
Most are either her on her own pouting in pub toilets or some strange poses in her house.
I was on the verge of blocking her as it was getting too much for me, but she seems to have beaten me to it. Probably because she knows we are all laughing at her.
Most are either her on her own pouting in pub toilets or some strange poses in her house.
I was on the verge of blocking her as it was getting too much for me, but she seems to have beaten me to it. Probably because she knows we are all laughing at her.
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its been done for years the only problem the media to upload them wasn't available.
And the old black and whites took so long to develop you would have changed by the time it was done ;-)
And the old black and whites took so long to develop you would have changed by the time it was done ;-)
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I just got an invitation to respond to my MOTHER on Facebook.
Slightly shocked tbh, even girlfriends daughter has now deleted her account
And iv never even thought about joining
Slightly shocked tbh, even girlfriends daughter has now deleted her account
And iv never even thought about joining
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Kids are kids, Steve. It's the older people looking for constant attention that gets some people's goat bleating. Their selfies makes no sense apart from them informing others via their pouted image that they have the ability to kiss, if required hence self-gratifying. Well, I'm sure we all know how to kiss. But why kiss all the fecking world virtually with your stupid pout?? What if someone doesn't want your stupid kiss? Idiots.
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As long as she isn't pouting in her picture, all good.
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girls have been doing it for years (anyone remember BEBO) it looked to me like it started as a way of lessening the look of a double chin (camera held up high) and slimmer cheeks (pouting) but it seems to be all women do it now.
....basically selfies are like the wonderbra of social networking , when you see them in real life they wont look anything like you thought.
....basically selfies are like the wonderbra of social networking , when you see them in real life they wont look anything like you thought.
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Most social media is for weirdos. I find not having a Facebook account helps me avoid any of this **** as well as pictures of people's food and moronic parents posting pictures of their sprogs
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If they display good norks, I'm all for it. A few female FB friends seem quite happy to display almost all and a few are quite attractive.
But it's definitely weird.
But it's definitely weird.
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It seems to be a thing with women to constantly take their selfie pics in a bar toilet, or the bathroom. I just don't get why they think its a nice picture with the fecking tampon dispenser or similar in the background!
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I use it mainly as a way of keeping in touch with family & friends that are scattered around the world. If you dont like what people post there is such a thing as a delete friend button.
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I fall categorically into the latter. I travel the world a fair bit and its a perfect way to keep in touch. For example, I'm in Cyprus at the moment until December. I also have a lot of friends that are posted all around the uk, afghan, Canada, Kenya amongst other places, so its perfect. Unfortunately, a lot of those guys have wives and kids, which inevitably fills my wall with $hitloads of pics of kids doing things that ingest me about as much as rubbing dog-turds into my eyes.
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I fall categorically into the latter. I travel the world a fair bit and its a perfect way to keep in touch. For example, I'm in Cyprus at the moment until December. I also have a lot of friends that are posted all around the uk, afghan, Canada, Kenya amongst other places, so its perfect. Unfortunately, a lot of those guys have wives and kids, which inevitably fills my wall with $hitloads of pics of kids doing things that ingest me about as much as rubbing dog-turds into my eyes.
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Through persuasion of another member on here I signed up to facebook this week, although I was always quite proud to have avoided it, and the many rows I've seen it cause over the years.
Whilst searching through my old school friends I found a friend I shared a flat with, who was a Royal Marine. It looks as though he travels the world somehow now, loads of pics of him in Ferrari's and Lamborghini's, with guns on ranges etc but not mention at all of his children. When I caught up with his ex recently she told me he hasn't seen his Son in our hometown for 10 years. I'd be more concerned with someone who isn't proud of their kids enough to show them off. That said, I think I'll be careful who those pictures are shared with.
Whilst searching through my old school friends I found a friend I shared a flat with, who was a Royal Marine. It looks as though he travels the world somehow now, loads of pics of him in Ferrari's and Lamborghini's, with guns on ranges etc but not mention at all of his children. When I caught up with his ex recently she told me he hasn't seen his Son in our hometown for 10 years. I'd be more concerned with someone who isn't proud of their kids enough to show them off. That said, I think I'll be careful who those pictures are shared with.
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Through persuasion of another member on here I signed up to facebook this week, although I was always quite proud to have avoided it, and the many rows I've seen it cause over the years.
Whilst searching through my old school friends I found a friend I shared a flat with, who was a Royal Marine. It looks as though he travels the world somehow now, loads of pics of him in Ferrari's and Lamborghini's, with guns on ranges etc but not mention at all of his children. When I caught up with his ex recently she told me he hasn't seen his Son in our hometown for 10 years. I'd be more concerned with someone who isn't proud of their kids enough to show them off. That said, I think I'll be careful who those pictures are shared with.
Whilst searching through my old school friends I found a friend I shared a flat with, who was a Royal Marine. It looks as though he travels the world somehow now, loads of pics of him in Ferrari's and Lamborghini's, with guns on ranges etc but not mention at all of his children. When I caught up with his ex recently she told me he hasn't seen his Son in our hometown for 10 years. I'd be more concerned with someone who isn't proud of their kids enough to show them off. That said, I think I'll be careful who those pictures are shared with.
There are people who think that any interaction on internet is weird, not just the Facebooking. Even the forums, because you don’t just ask subject-based questions, but you blether for recreation with invisible people on them e.g. on Scoobynet. I remember asking a person from here whether he was to join one muppet meet. He responded that he wouldn’t, because his missus thinks internet is full of weirdos, and wouldn’t let him/wouldn’t accompany him to internet meets. It did make me question why it was alright for him to banter with people here then, and whether his missus knew he posted on SN to talk bollox. What a weirdo.
With such low opinion of internet/social media and its users, I wonder why some people bother communicating on it. But if they know that even the prime minister David Cameron tweets every now and again, why slag this media off, just because all you predominantly look for is **** happening via internet, not the good stuff that also takes place.
I mean, if someone’s partner runs off with someone from internet, rather than blaming internet, they need to evaluate the state of their relationship that threw their partner to bond with invisible people who they eventually fcuked off with. It doesn’t happen to the people in secure and happy relationships.
Facebook does blatantly allow more self-disclosures, but one doesn’t have to cross their own boundaries. No one can harass you on Facebook or anywhere else unless you want to be harassed. Choose your contacts carefully, you should be ok. If you choose the bad ones, you sir are one of them.
There was a lad at work who once bragged about planning to get married to someone abroad and emigrating, her diabetes and some other things. When I met his mother five years after, I asked how he was as married, and if he had had any children by now etc. His mother shook her head and told me that he never got married, in fact he only knew the girl on the internet, never met her, and just developed a belief that she was his girlfriend to be married to him. Now that IS weird, if no harm to anyone else but to himself.
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