Are you sick of seeing doctored selfies?

Messy said:
There are some standard on my phone app, but those are very childish, if you chose fun instead of photo and it said that more filters were on Snapchat. My kids use that. I installed it. You can just chose a filter and make a pic.
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sorry I'm not sure I understand you... you mean you installed Snapchat so you could filter photos ? :unsure:
 
IrishEyes said:
Does no one ever do a touch up aging them self instead? Is that too scary?
Might be even more interesting really.
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My daughter was playing with AI one day... put a picture of herself in and told it to add 30 years. It was a beautiful picture but it freaked her out seeing herself that way and the curiosity of what what AI can do with pictures instantly vanished. :ROFLMAO:
 
IrishEyes said:
Does no one ever do a touch up aging them self instead? Is that too scary?
Might be even more interesting really.
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I just did that too on Snapchat. I saw a girl on instagram use it. Oh haha funny. Lets do that too. AAAAH! Yes it was scary. It looked fun on her cause she's young.
 
Messy said:
I just did that too on Snapchat. I saw a girl on instagram use it. Oh haha funny. Lets do that too. AAAAH! Yes it was scary. It looked fun on her cause she's young.
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AgingBooth is free on Android and iOS I may give it a shot when I am done running this morning.
I truly hope I don't see those dark bags under eyes like Mom had, the rest I could take pretty well I think.
 
We have all been young and we have no doubt all had times when we lacked confidence, felt unattractive, wished we were taller, thinner, prettier but, we weren't subjected to the same pressures as the social media generation has been. If we had, we probably would have been using filters, wearing hair extensions and taking endless filtered selfies. 🤷‍♀️ Thank goodness I was young in an era before social media and there are no online photos of me in my hey day - mini skirts, white knee length boots, hot pants! :eek:
 
Pepper said:
It kills me to see pictures of myself when I was younger. I was cute! Why did I not know that?

Young people are beautiful. Youth is lovely. We will not have that natural beauty ever again.

I didn’t know that at the time. I regret that I didn’t know that when I was living it.
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If you had this realization when you were younger do you think you would have done some things differently in your life or just had more appreation of what youth has to offer?
 
jujube said:
I don't need an altered selfie to see what I'm going to look like when I'm 10 years older. All I have to do is look in the mirror in the morning........
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I have a built in filter. I just refuse to buy glasses. I have also greeted the wrong people and ignored the right ones.
 
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The widespread use of cosmetics (pre-AI) were the "selfies" of the past. Just like the image-altering "selfies" of today, cosmetics are reality-distorting methods of a more technologically primitive past.

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seadoug said:
This is especially the case with young women. They now have to look like supermodels, even if they are fairly plain in real life. I'm so sick of these fake-looking, doctored selfies. So much ridiculous vanity.

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What is sad is that there is now a condition called Instagram Dismorfia that causes this. What are these people going to feel like when they become seniors? There will be a big difference between what they post and what they see in the mirror. Seems like the plastic surgery industry will be booming, but not everyone is as wealthy as Madonna or Kris Jenner.

Instagram contributes to body dysmorphia by promoting intense social comparison, facilitating the use of filters that create unrealistic beauty standards ("Instagram face"), and exposing users to negative comments. This can cause an obsessive focus on minor or imagined physical flaws, leading to anxiety, depression, and a desire for cosmetic procedures to match filtered images.
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Back in the pen pal days when I was a young fossil the girls would doctor themselves up then mail them to us. Some was certain touch ups and some were like she put her head on another body. Some of us were fairly also guilty. Now it's crazy. If you're never going to meet anybody in your smartphone photo file what's the point? Now that I am a certified old fossil it seems they don't have plans to outdo each other but to have these beauty contest online or however they judge each other. IMHO just as long as they keep in the phones and not on the streets which probably happens a time or two/

www.vice.com/en/article/quitting-skincare-gave-me-the-skin-of-my-dreams/

How photo editing in social media shapes self-perceived attractiveness and self-esteem via self-objectification and physical appearance comparisons - PMC


 
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I take one or two selfies a year, if that. People who are important to me know what I look like.

The way I figure it, I had my day of youthful attractiveness. During late teens through forties, the "natural look" was in. Thank goodness. Despite having a big wedding, I wore only my regular makeup: some under-eye concealer, mascara, and blush. No lipstick. Took me five minutes to apply it. My GFs and relatives did the same when they got married. We all looked like ourselves but with a better hairdo that day. (What a concept!).

It's disturbing to see women (of all ages) working jobs for little more than minimum wage, but wearing full stage makeup, including heavy foundation and giant false eyelashes. The message they're broadcasting comes through loud and clear: What's important is my appearance, no need to look deeper or to take me seriously.

They don't connect the dots that (almost always) women with C-Suite careers fuss much less with their appearance than women working on factory lines.

Ditto with filters.
 
All media be it social or otherwise promotes beauty as being the only option or you are nothing. Look at tv ads alone. Between that and the apps that make these girls look doctored up and all the beauties in the magazines. They need to start advertising real women so these girls can learn to deal with what's coming.
 
There's nothing sadder than seeing a perfectly lovely teenage girl at work that is sitting there stating that she's ugly and fat. They're all wearing fake lashes and fake nails and all this makeup and doing all these things to their hair and getting tattoos and then whining because a boy treats them like crap. It's like please!
 
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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I agree 100% @OneEyedDiva, although I'm White and thus of course don't face the additional pressures Black women do. I don't think the constant negative comments by men, usually online, help. They're so harsh, it's no wonder women feel pressured to try to look perfect. The comment that a plain woman is "an insult to my eyes" is a classic example.

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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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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