Do you touch up your photos?
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
Posted in internet on
Brits are starting to touch up their photos before posting them online, according to some likely rather bogus stats in the ever-accurate Sun, with a rather fantastic headline to match (”Touched up on holiday”).
While I doubt the scientific validity of the 550 per cent increase in photo editing that the Sun cites - how could you even measure such a thing? - I don’t doubt that people are giving their pics a wee bit of a look over in PhotoShop before posting them.
Indeed, the Sun even notes that HP’s photo editing software comes with an automated tool to cut a few pounds off photo subjects, so even those with no ‘Shop skills can get a leaner look.
I’ve never understood this. The people you’re friends with online, don’t they know what you look like in person? Aren’t the people you went on holiday with also your friends on Facebook? Won’t they notice that your belly seems to have miraculously flattened? Your breasts magically massive? Your face actually attractive? (I’d rather look a bit fat than incredibly vain…)
There’s nothing wrong with choosing not to post something because you inexplicably look hideous — sometimes the camera just catches the wrong angle (that’s what I tell myself, anyway.) And there’s nothing wrong with picking a more flattering pic for your profile photo — hey, sometimes the lighting just works.
But actually editing them is just silly and insecure. (Though it might spur an uptake in people’s computer skills…)
One woman let the Daily Mail touchup her photos. According to the paper, she was “delighted with the results.” She was quoted as saying: “Wow, that looks a bit weird, not like me. But yes, I like it.”
It doesn’t look like you, but you like it? Why not just fill your profile with pictures of Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox or whoever else, if you want someone hot and don’t mind if it looks like you?
People of Facebook (and MySpace and whatever else), please keep in mind: You’re not celebrities and you don’t need to look like them.
Yes, your photos are online. But that doesn’t mean you’re famous. No one cares what you look like. Your friends already know — and they like you anyway, it would seem — and no one else gives a crap.
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