I have found myself trying to live vicariously through other people's posted pictures. I'm not saying my life is boring (as i spend 40 hours a week on the computer and go running up and down the stairs to prevent getting hemorrhoids...excuse the pay channel language) but i do go on facebook and get all these updates on people's seemingly exciting lives and LOOK and the pictures they post.I look at the photos and think "how fun" or "how cool" and most of the time i think "sons of @#%(&es , lucky $%^&ards" but now i realize that....People post pictures because they want others to stalk them.
They are just advertising themselves as adventurous and fun...they are posing...LITERALLY and...figuratively (it's like a pun). ANYWAY, there is no need for me to envy someone who has to prove they have a good time by documenting it constantly. I have plenty of fun, i just don't haul around a camera and pause every thirty seconds when I'm in a moment.
if i took a picture, i would look back on it and think..."remember that time i stopped having a good time to take an un-photogenic/ hideous picture of myself..."
Cameras, facebook, etc...it is all changing how people have a good time. Instead of just ENJOYING themselves, everyone is looking to be, well, picture perfect.
i'm not saying i will stop stalking everyone (i'm way to bored to do that), i'm saying well, that i'm not a creep...maybe someone who takes pictures every 5 seconds is more of a creep.
I couldn't agree more. Sometimes I just want to post pictures of trash to offset the uber-adventurous pictures I see in my newsfeed. I'm convinced that these ppl's lives aren't as glamorous as they seem in pictures, but it's facebook- where people perceive you as the way you portray yourself. Anyways, if I weren't so damn bored all the time, I'd probably delete mine. Now that I've found your blog, I'll have a new way of stalking someone I love.
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I'm on a diet of narcotics right now. Please excuse discrepancies.
Are you calling me unphotogenic and creepy?
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