Kastle: Your Facebook Profile Picture
Going off of what Ana said about pretending to be someone you're not, and fake identities, i found this Facebook picture (which is a little crude) but i think it really stresses a good point. Speaking about us girls here, there are times when we crop our pictures to make us look more flattering and beautiful. I know that i have done it. But why do we do it? Would we not have as many friends if we had an ugly profile picture? Perhaps that is what many young insecure girls think. Which is why Facebook gives us the lovely option of cropping our profile picture to any way we like. To look like someone that we're not, and become the hot sexy girl on Facebook that everyone loves. This goes back to it being an alternate reality where we have the freedom to choose how we want to appear and act. Is this freedom a good or bad thing?
It's sad how true this is! Many people use Facebook to distort their appearance, attempting to trick people into thinking they look differently than they actually do. I have noticed that a lot of single guys and gals do this. My personal belief is that people do this in an attempt to gain interest from the opposite sex, as if cropping out their body is going to trick them.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, though, girls and guys will bare (almost) all of themselves in their pictures on Facebook with the same intention of those that crop out their bodies. A lot of it just has to do with low self esteem and/or to gain attention from "friends" online.
Yes that is true. Lots of times people do it for gaining interest of the opposite sex. Everyone wants to be loved. And this is also true. Girls purposely look slutty in pictures and guys have pictures with their shirts off for the same reason. They want attention and they have low self esteem. Good points!
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