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Facebook pictures: too extreme "trend"?


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Hey guys,

Okay, lately there has been this issue with posting too many facebook pictures online that has been bugging me since the past weeks

and I need your opinions to get peace of mind. :S

Do you know these people who always constantly update pictures every single day? They go out ONCE for a party and take 200 (minimum) useless, ridiculous, similar looking, lip-pouting pictures of themselves and their friends.

At the beginning it was okay, but then I realized almost everyone is doing it and it has started to affect me :/

For example, i feel like I need to prove to others and "compete" with them to show that I have a "life" if you get what I mean. I mean seriously, I have a life but I don't feel the constant need to show it off by taking pictures everytime I go out. My friends and I go out to the park or so often, but rarely take pictures. I usually feel that I have better things to do (and YES, sleeping is included) than waste my life on facebook.

Also, I have this other side that goes like ...oh my god. They are right in a way, because we need memories of our childhood, and if i dont take any pictures in this age i will have nothing to look back upon ... :o So I am constantly worried and feel like I have to force myself to attend useless parties and events just for the pictures .. :/ I dont get it. It is sooo frustrating. I know there is a limit to everything, but what exactly IS the limit?

Tell me what you think guys! :)

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I've noticed people that I have as "friends" on facebook (because I don't consider them as friends, but I have them linked to my profile because they were schoolmates) do that SO MUCH. Not as extreme as updating their profile pictures every day, but kind of like every time they do something they are posting a hundred photos about it (and many of them are the exact same shot over and over again).

I get the point about remembering your childhood, but there's a point where it becomes excessive and you're more obsessed with taking photos than enjoying the event itself! If you want to take a couple of photos of yourself at the party, maybe a photo of your friend doing something silly, that's perfectly normal. But if you're taking 300 photos including some rediculous shots such as yourself standing in a mirror (totally lame), photos of your drinks, or just random people dancing, you need to take a break, put the camera down, and enjoy the party. You shouldn't feel obligated to attend useless parties, because unless you're constantly around a person that brings a camera then I doubt you'd even get in many photos anyways! If it helps you, bring a camera with you and take a few photos of your friends. Don't feel intimidated or feel that you don't have a life because you don't post a picture of yourself every time you go to the park. That's stupid. As long as YOU know you went to the park, and that you had a good time, I wouldn't worry about it at all. Be proud you got to enjoy the park without doing all the stupid lip-pout pictures! :)

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Fellow May '12 buddy!

Maybe you're one of those people who get really worried and caught up with the idea of memories. Think about it to yourself: do you really need tangible memories? Those memories can be brought up and felt by talking with your best friends. Sure, a photo here and there is great, but I'd think 200 photos per event going a bit overboard just to collect "fond moments". You only have a couple of these, ever, so taking so many would defeat the purpose- they just like using their camera. That's just my two cents though, so I advise you to find your own healthy balance and just do whatever you want; don't be so caught up with everyone else is doing!

Relax. If Facebook spam annoys you, just use the filter option. You don't need to prove anything to anyone :) and be a little more satisfied of yourself!

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Bro... bro listen.

People want to be ducks. Let them be. If they want to take 200 pictures of the duck face. Let them be. You wanna know why? Because It's hilarious. It's even better when they just look like they're squinting in front of the camera. I do wonder what goes through their mind when they think that's a good looking picture. "hey I'm just having fun!" :lmao: I find it funny but usually hide people that do it loads.

I don't mind people taking loads of pictures in an outing or whatever. They accimulate much quicker than expected lol

But a type of picture that annoys me the most is the ones of girls that are like half naked or bending over so you can see down their shirt. Usually I want to reach through the computer and slap them. They look silly. I mean, are like going to feed you?

Just post really irrelevant pictures as a comment or one that points out silly things :D

Dawg ignore all the pictures :P it's the internet!

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I check Facebook once a day maybe just to see if some of my friends have emailed me back since Facebook is really convenient for these kinds of things. I think the last time I posted a picture of myself was in February, and even then, I didn't take the picture, it was emailed to me.

I mostly get tagged every few months in a picture and let that stand as it is. If you look at my albums it's like: Event February 2012, Event August 2011, Event May 2010. I couldn't care less about pictures and most people with actual things to do in their everyday lives don't care about pictures either.

Most of these people who are constantly uploading pictures of irrelevant things don't know how to really enjoy an event. Even when I do take pictures to post online, I don't think at any party I've taken more than 10-15 at most. Hell, on a month long vacation with my friends I had about 60, whereas some of my friends had amassed over 2,000! I find it mind-boggling.

Frankly, nobody cares if you post pictures or not to 'show' you have a social life. More than anything else, you shouldn't feel like you need to compulsively post pictures either. Think about it, about 60-80% of the people you've 'Friend-ed' on Facebook you never even talk to, the few people around you, your close friends or friend circle that you hang out with on a regular basis, are probably right along with you in the photos in question anyway. If you're having a good time, going out, socialising, partying, hanging out with your friends in a café or book club, Lady Gaga concert, or at the midnight showing of the Sound of Music Revival, you've done that and shared it with them. The memories of that time are with you and will remain with you (unless you suffer from amnesia or forget with old age or something), but you've had fun, enjoyed the moment and 'lived' your life in that moment as well.

Why would you feel a need to prove that you're happy and enjoying your life experiences with the 60-80% of the people you never even talk to?

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Honey, Do not even worry about them. I tend to think that those people take that many photos just to act as though they actually have a happy life, while never documenting the unhappy moments in their life. And more than likely, they will look back at the photos and think, "WTH was I thinking? Was it a dare to act like a duck?" Being busy taking pictures can force you to only focus on the camera as opposed to actually what's going on around you. I mean, if it is a vacation then that's a different story. You will remember that, more likely, with or without pictures.

Why compete when you are enjoying a lifestyle you like, and they are too focused on a camera to notice what passes them by? You will have memories to keep you sated.

Ciao. :blowkiss:

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facebook? facebook?? you are talking about FACEBOOK???

talk about instagram! I swear to God there's this friend of mine who takes pictures of EVERY food he eats everyday and puts it on instagram (which posts those pictures to BOTH facebook and twitter). it's so annoying! the picture's not even professionally taken, so he's just kind of spamming.

but yes, I do have friends who take thousands of pictures of themselves with similar pose, in the same place, from the same angle..... too annoying.

however you can just choose not to see those pictures in your news feed. just hide that person's feed :D:P then you won't see any of their posts ever again in your news feed.

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I cannot agree with you more guys. I simply pity to these people who put millions of pictures on their facebook page just to show their other friends that they have a great life. But I think their life sucks. They go to parties just to take pictures and put these pictures to facebook. They actually don't enjoy the party itself. They don't even talk and try to socialize in these events. Unbelievable...

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Some of the people I follow on Twitter think it's cool to turn their Instagram into flippin' Food Network. Like bro, seriously, I don't care that you're eating a Big Mac at 1:32 pm (really tho? Big Mac? How unhealthy can you get?), and I'm positive no one else cares either. So many links to their Instagram where you'd expect to find something cool, but instead it's a pathetic-looking cheesecake or something (I love cheesecake, but if I wanted to post a picture of it, I would make sure it wasn't a measly crumb the size of Thumbelina)

And I never understood why people do duck faces. It's just looks weird to me. Like, why? Why a duck, of all living beings out there? Why not a cat, or a bunny, or even better, a HUMAN?

You don't have to take pics all the time to prove you're having a good time. I never post pics on Twitter, but I know I'm having a way better life than all the Food Network wannabes I follow.

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