Younguns and instagram
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Has anyone else seen this whilst out and about. Teens and people in their 20s spending ages posing for their instagram shots? Was in London a few weeks ago and there were a couple of girls in a bar we were in, pulled out an empty bottle of bubbly to pose with, did that for a few minutes with all their empty Selfridges bags, phones layed out nicely etc etc
They then sat there for 5 minutes applying filters and adjusting the images before uploading them
Seen this before with fake currency traders uploading the same s
t as their mates, but that is part of their act
Seemed really tragic, just made me feel sad inside for them
They then sat there for 5 minutes applying filters and adjusting the images before uploading them
Seen this before with fake currency traders uploading the same s
t as their mates, but that is part of their actSeemed really tragic, just made me feel sad inside for them
JakeT said:
As a 'youngun' you are not wrong. It's all showing off really. I mainly use insta to follow people. Don't think I've posted anything in years. Friends even text me asking to like their pictures when they post a new one!
A girl in my work is like that, she bases her entire life and being around social media and believes everything people post when its clearly made up crap. She also seems to think shows like TOWIE and Made in Chelsea are real and are to be emulated.She's 30 years old.
Once lived in a house full of them. One would just post pics of her out and about or eating a nice brunch or whatever, others were much worse. Snapchat has a much worse effect on people though- have watched four grown adults in my kitchen with their phones all out at once pulling faces and putting rabbit ear/whatever filters on them.
Perfectly normal people otherwise. I loved the internet when I was a kid. Now I'm starting to wish we could put it back in its box and write it off as a bad idea. I guess smartphones are the real culprit.
Perfectly normal people otherwise. I loved the internet when I was a kid. Now I'm starting to wish we could put it back in its box and write it off as a bad idea. I guess smartphones are the real culprit.
It's a sad truth, but life is bit for living, it's for positing online pretending to live.
There is a really worrying link between all this social media narcissistic behaviour and very poor mental health such as depression and anxiety. If everything is about impressing your 'followers', then you must surely constantly feel judged? That cannot be good.
In years to come I think we will look back on social media binging and wonder why we did nothing to stop it.
There is a really worrying link between all this social media narcissistic behaviour and very poor mental health such as depression and anxiety. If everything is about impressing your 'followers', then you must surely constantly feel judged? That cannot be good.
In years to come I think we will look back on social media binging and wonder why we did nothing to stop it.
I feel as if its a time pacifier for most and a method of portraying your life to others to suggest a life more luxurious than reality as its a common belief amongst younger generations that more, bigger or expensive is desirable.
If the time spent using it by youngsters was put into something actually useful then a lot more things would get accomplished!
If the time spent using it by youngsters was put into something actually useful then a lot more things would get accomplished!
TVR Moneypit said:
Orchid1 said:
A girl in my work is like that. She also seems to think shows like TOWIE and Made in Chelsea are real and are to be emulated.
She's 30 years old.
She's 30 years old.
God help her, the thick cow.
te and scripted, I was told I think i'm far superior but I'm not and don't know anything. 
She's 43..
Yep see it a fair amount; we were in Thailand last year and it was rife with the young Thai's and Chinese, at breakfast one morning, myself and the wife watched a couple of young (early 20's I guess) Chinese girls spending ages getting perfect shots posing in the pool, behind a big leaf, looking wistfully away etc.
Whilst funny to watch it's actually quite sad because even though they are there it is still, in a way fake, there was absolutely nothing natural, normal or spontaneous about the photographs they were trying to take and no doubt they were going to be filtered to death too, loaded up to Instagram and then "liked" and fawned over by their "friends".
"Celebrities" do it, they post a picture of themselves up looking all slim tanned and contoured, get loads of "likes" and fans fawning over how great they look and yet in real life they look nothing like that, it projects a fake look and image and yet young girls (rightly or wrongly) look up to these people, and yet can't see it is fake.
Lauren Goodger is the worst for this, she is chunky and clearly struggles with her weight and size and yet her Instagram pictures are nothing like the real person, last year she had a go at the press for only printing fat pictures of her, the truth is she is fat, the pictures she posts aren't real, they are filtered, touched up, slimmed down, taken from angles that make you look slimmer, it's people like this who cause kids and young adults to have body hang up issues.
Whilst funny to watch it's actually quite sad because even though they are there it is still, in a way fake, there was absolutely nothing natural, normal or spontaneous about the photographs they were trying to take and no doubt they were going to be filtered to death too, loaded up to Instagram and then "liked" and fawned over by their "friends".
"Celebrities" do it, they post a picture of themselves up looking all slim tanned and contoured, get loads of "likes" and fans fawning over how great they look and yet in real life they look nothing like that, it projects a fake look and image and yet young girls (rightly or wrongly) look up to these people, and yet can't see it is fake.
Lauren Goodger is the worst for this, she is chunky and clearly struggles with her weight and size and yet her Instagram pictures are nothing like the real person, last year she had a go at the press for only printing fat pictures of her, the truth is she is fat, the pictures she posts aren't real, they are filtered, touched up, slimmed down, taken from angles that make you look slimmer, it's people like this who cause kids and young adults to have body hang up issues.
It is a very strange trend.
When I am in London I rarely see anyone take a picture of a view or structure without them in it too - why? It's just so odd.
Occasionally I will read (sadly) of a young person dying and the only picture that the papers have of them is with some bizarre pouty expression - I find it so peculiar.
What happened to a 'normal' face in a photo - and what is it with 'selfies' anyway?
When I am in London I rarely see anyone take a picture of a view or structure without them in it too - why? It's just so odd.
Occasionally I will read (sadly) of a young person dying and the only picture that the papers have of them is with some bizarre pouty expression - I find it so peculiar.
What happened to a 'normal' face in a photo - and what is it with 'selfies' anyway?
marksx said:
I still haven't figured out exactly what Instagram does, that Facebook doesn't.
I used it once to put a picture on Facebook.
But, I'm old. Well. 33.
Instagram just shows me loads of pictures of things I'm interested in - cool places, motorcycle projects etc without all the chat and politics of Facebook. I used it once to put a picture on Facebook.
But, I'm old. Well. 33.
I really like it.
There's a definite change in the way a smart phone camera is used depending on the age of the user.
Old people (i.e. me) - will point a smart phone camera at an object/vista I want to preserve/take a photo of it. I will NOT be in the photo.
Young people will find something they want to be seen in front of, and they'll take a photograph of themselves, with the thing in the background.
I don't want to sound too harsh but it looks for all the world like a lot of these kids are terminally vain and image obsessed.
Old people (i.e. me) - will point a smart phone camera at an object/vista I want to preserve/take a photo of it. I will NOT be in the photo.
Young people will find something they want to be seen in front of, and they'll take a photograph of themselves, with the thing in the background.
I don't want to sound too harsh but it looks for all the world like a lot of these kids are terminally vain and image obsessed.
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