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It becomes so convincing that you yourself is convinced that the picture is so you that you upload it in Facebook. What a hallucination! Some gullible person then views it and before you even know it you have numerous likes and all praising comments on your picture. Let me shove some reality into you: These people who rave and comment are not actually praising you. Subconsciously, they are praising the photographer, who by his art, makes any uninteresting subject look attention worthy with just a click and a little processing. To a point, it looks like idolatry, where an object venerated by people is the one getting all the praise for the efforts of the one who truly worked for it.
I have this theory. If you want to view if a good looking boy/girl in Facebook is as good looking in person, go view their tagged photos. There you will see the reality, faces unguarded, faces raw from editing and other manipulation. This might not work if the user selectively chooses the photos where one would be tagged, because by all means any person could un-tag oneself to submerge oneself again in the make-believe world of beauty and glamor.
I don’t get the point why people have to overly enhance their pictures. I’m guessing it’s because of self esteem issues or some craving of attention. To those people, please help yourself and buy some cartons of self esteem and boxes of attention in you local grocery store, or have it delivered by your doorstep. That might work. However, I really think that it’s being pretentious. I’m actually glad when some blogger friend I met told me that I look the same in person as in my pictures. Let me tell you one thing, I look better in person. Haha. Kidding.
Here's a song for all those people:
Here's a song for all those people:
I'm guilty on the un-tagging of pictures that friends post. I think most people treat pictures as advertisements for them to be of market value.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I really searched for this video about profile pictures that I once saw before. It's a Samsung advertisement. I lol'ed on this one which is very true nowadays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhrZyFAbUCw
most people dinadaan na lang sa photoshop para lang makapandaya sa itsura, ayaw nilang ipakita yung totoong sila,
ReplyDeleteanyhow hindi naman sa masama pero parang lumalabas na tinatago nila sarili nila sa likod ng adobe,
la lang,ayun share!
P.S. akala ko cinnamon yung nasa pic, hehe
:)
huwaw, ikaw na ang pogi, arjay! hehe. :) ako din actually, guilty sa paghide ng mga tagged photos.
ReplyDeletenakakapikon kasi ang tinatag ka sa mga sapatos, bag, kendi, at kung anu-ano pang mga bagay na halata namang hindi mo pagmumukha.
isa pa, ayokong makita ng mga magulang ko ang mga yosi at beer pics ko. kaya ayun.
at oo nga, ganun pa din ang itsura mo in person. kahit tanungin mo pa si jeff. hahaha :P
ndi ka naman bitter mashado nyan? LOL. kanya kanyang diskarte lang yan.. parang pag namimili tayo ng pictures na gagawin nating profile picture diba pipili din tayo ng disente itsura natin..
ReplyDeleteganun lang un. OA lang talaga ung ibang tao.. relax. chill..
hahaha. guilty ako sa untagging. puro wacky shot kasi tina-tag sa akin, wala man lang glamor. LOL
ReplyDeletearay ko naman. sige na, ako na ang may self-esteem issues. balang araw, kikinis rin ang mukha ko at hinde ko na kekelanganin ang lighting techniques and 'clear skin' photo enhancements.
ReplyDeletemasakit pero totoo ang sinabi mo. agh. bitter? ahaha...
visual escape. those enhancements are in no way to hide the one's true self. perhaps it's just a reflection of one's frustrations... gusto lang siguro nila makita ang sarili nila sa isang parallel na mundo kung saan hinde uso ang taghiyawat at kung anu-anung blemishes at craters sa epidermal topography... isang ilusyon na magbibigay ngiti sa kanilang mga labi dahil hinde nila nagugustuhan ang nakikita nila sa salamin...
ReplyDeleteagh. ijustify daw ba? pasensya na arjay at dito pa ko nag-emote. wakekeke~
yep i am guilty. i untag some pictures ni tina-tag saken, pero kasi naman e may ibang pics na parang nagmumukhang weird ka...
ReplyDeletebut i don't photoshop my pictures either. kasi as much as possible e sana e wag dumating sa punto na sabihan ka na "teka, ikaw ba talaga yung sa pictures? kasi parang di ikaw e..."
although in my case, kahit hindi na-photoshop, may nagsabi saken na iba itsura ko sa pictures...parang negative ang dating...oh well...
ako i do choose the pictures that i show. and i understand people who are like that.
i'm not saying that everyone who's guilty on this has the same reason as i have. ang sakin kasi e i grew up like an ugly duckling. di ako marunong mag-ayos dati, and i got teased because of it. unruly hair, oily face, lots of pimples and all those stuff. and i was bullied. siguro naging super conscious lang ako sa itsura ko dahil sa pangaapi ng ibang tao na "oh so better" than me.
pero i'm growing up now and learning. pero in my case, ako, i just wanna be presentable to other people. who knows, maybe the person you're gonna spend your life with is just sitting beside you on the bus. haha
pero i think everyone's doing it to be liked. and i adore those people na hindi na kailangan mag-effort pa para lang maramdaman yun.
pero as for us that can't feel it e ganun lang talaga.
anyway i like lady gaga's song. we're beautiful in our own way, and i wanna believe that.
@xall - that was one creative commercial! :) I think we are all guilty of doing the deed at one point in our lives.
ReplyDelete@tr aurelius - hindi naman siguro lahat... anyway, medyo malayo ang cinnamon doon.haha!
@claudiopoi - oo nga naman, syempre kung unsightly talaga ang situation, yun ang dapat i hide, say for example, yung pag yoyosi at pagbebeer. Iba naman yung pageedit na sinasabi ko. hehe
@nimmy- i am often victimized by that.haha just sharing.
@nowitzki - i feel for you, sabi ko nga sa comment kay xall, we are all guilty of doing that pero I believe in time we would outgrow these things and tatawanan nlng when we become older and more mature.
@carlo - oo nga, parang buong pagkatao mo pagdududahan pag ganoon e no? Syempre meron ding mga tao na who will look better and less better in photos. My point in doing this post is to address yung mga super kung magedit ng picture. It was never meant na magparinig or magpatama ng tao. These are jsut mere observations na nawitness ko rin sa sarili ko at one point in my life.
Actually I do really believe that, everyone's beautiful in our own way. In the end, there's more to physical looks. It's just a matter of appreciation of oneself. Just like lady gaga's song :)
yep no worries :) gusto ko lang mag-share ehehe... i followed you btw...
ReplyDeletei hope i made that clear.haha :P tHANKS. i also followed you, nakakatuwa ang mga luto mo. :)
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