Are you sick of seeing doctored selfies?

KSav said:
I have never taken a selfie and never will; there's no need. My kids and friends know what I look like.
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I forgot to add: I also don't use social media, so there's no need for one. In online forums and WhatsApp I either use a bitmoji or an ocean liner photo (or at present, some other photo).
 
Murrmurr said:
The good news is, today's teenagers laugh at filtered selfies. They think they're stupid, and a lot of the girls think they're gross.

Gen Z kids are not at all hung-up on looks. Aside from fashion, that is. They do like their clothes to reflect what they're into, even if it's just that week.
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i don't agree with that. maybe you know some that are different but most of the ones i know freak out at the idea of looking what the kids call cringe.
 
Messy said:
I have a built in filter. I just refuse to buy glasses. I have also greeted the wrong people and ignored the right ones. Once I said to my son, when I picked him up from school: Hey do you have a new jacket? No I have had this one a few months. Really? How.. oh this is not my son.


Yes No I understand that too but if they don't want to cooperate then that's the end of it for me too of course yeah yeah well

Guys come on come on Dad doesn't have time all day come

No I have half a lunch appointment that Marielle did that bear my agenda not me then you have to ask Marielle

Now come on guys hurry I have more

Yes that could be tomorrow after 3:0 I don't have time earlier I would have to check for a very quick moment but then you could also just ask Marielle because she manages the general agenda of course I'm not with that right now No I'm on my way I have at uh no if that was what it was about then I would have started talking about that myself at 3:30 I'll manage

guys Come out hop over to mom see you next week bye bye Yes sorry here I am

Jurgen!

3:0 and then I have to quickly reschedule an appointment

Jurgen! I have nothing to do with you anymore! Jurgen! These aren't our children.
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"These aren't our children". The end is such hilarious.

I remember an episode.

For some years I drove children to a school for handicapped children and young adults. I had a woman who cared for them in the minibus (max. 9 persons inclusive driver). At the first day of the new school year we got some new passengers. Among them was a mother with her boy of 6 or 7 years at the bus stop we used. Mother and son entered our bus.

At the school the mother said that it was not her son's school. We asked her where he belongs but they were migrants from the Middle East and didn't speak well enough English (not to mention German at all). But at least she could tell uns the name and location of the school. It was a normal elementary school but at the other end of the city. Thus we drove mother and child to this school.

After they left the car both of us had to laugh.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
This has been our culture for decades and decades Doug. Women and girls are made to feel badly about ourselves if we don't have perfect skin, hair, are over weight and even if we wear glasses. We have been teased and shamed when we didn't look a certain way. And forget it if you're Black. We were told (and shown) that if we didn't have white skin and straight hair, we could never be considered pretty. Now there are ways to doctor one's image to live up to unrealistic standards of beauty. The problem with that is if someone meets up with a potential partner in person and they don't look as depicted in their selfie, that could cause a major disappointment and end the date pretty quickly .

I don't doctor my selfies. If I don't like how one comes out, I just don't post it. Honestly, so far I can say people I know don't doctor theirs either. But for those who do...it's not an important enough "thing" to bother me,
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The perfect image, as you so eloquently describe it Diva, is perceived as an ideal, typically, as Diva described, featuring flawless skin and an appearance of effortless perfection. Driven by social media and advertising, this unattainable ideal is frequently mistaken for reality, where attractive individuals are wrongly assumed to be happier, more successful, and more intelligent. Many suffer because this illusion is designed to be unattainable, leading to a relentless pursuit of perfection that takes a heavy toll on mental health.
 
I just don't see the point. You know what you look like, those images are not you. Young people these days are so caught up in their image to others. These is going to be the real "keeping up with the Jones".

They will post things about the house that is not theirs. The car that they only dream to own. The vacations they took. Living a lie, all images they stole off the web. Then they will show their pictures all enhanced with filters.

I am just too old and exhausted to worry about what others think. I have lived a good life, been proud of my home, cars, etc. My husband and I worked hard for everything. There is no shame in that.
 
I'm sick of seeing women who have had lip enlargement treatment. It's bad enough when average looking women get that, which makes them look hideous, but what's the deal with attractive women having their lips enlarged? They wind up looking like a duck. WTF? Why do they do that?
 
Am I sick of seeing doctored selfies?

Not really, because I don't give them much thought or attention these days. To me, they all look very narcissistic and I therefore just skip over them. To my eye they stand out as being too fake. Perhaps along with some of them having fake personalities; fake lives, fake lifestyles; fake opinions.

During one flight to the US, I noticed a youngish woman sat across the isle from me, but slightly in front. When the seat belt sign went off, her phone came straight out, cheeks were partly sucked in, slightly pouting lips, photos then taken from several angles, turning her head to show a slightly different angle.

It was at that point that I thought, so that's how they do it. I thought maybe best to avoid this person as much as possible.

I visited the toilet on the plane, minding my own business, so to speak. And at that point a thought came over me. Should i vacate the toilet, walk back to my seat, phone camera in hand, pouted lips and drawn in cheeks, taking photos of myself along the way. Whats good enough for the goose...

I didn't do it in the end, but at the time it seemed so tempting.
 
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Pappy said:
I don’t like them. Never had them and never will. 🫪

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Now this seems like something opposite to what some of us might be discussing.

A photo here of someone who has to prove nothing and impress no one. Someone who feels they need to partly hide behind a helm and chainmail to hide their overwhelmingly beautiful hair.

This photo is something worthy of appreciation! A quiet understatement. Tell me you can't see it.
 
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