Please stop the selfies

[Kurt.]

little selfie I took today

 

[craigw]

Unless you look handsome like, Well me, Do not bother taking selfies.

 

[Donald Twain]

little selfie I took today

That's no selfie !!! You've paid someone to take that as part of some sad gayish portfolio type thing you hand out at Z list events in town.

 

[scratchnsurf]

Whenever I read the word selfie I think it really ought to mean having a fap.

 

[scratchnsurf]

That's no selfie !!! You've paid someone to take that as part of some sad gayish portfolio type thing you hand out at Z list events in town.

Kurt lives in Wales mate. I don't think they have any towns.

 

[Donald Twain]

Kurt lives in Wales mate. I don't think they have any towns.

They have Pebyls or Burghs or something equally backward .

 

[COYBL25]

I agree. Posting up pictures for likes and approval is pathetic.

Moving slightly away from the " selfie " something to me that is equally as banal and vacuous is " checking in " on Facebook
I,m sorry I just don't get it. Letting all your cyber friends know you're every funkin move. FFS it's not the Trueman Show, who gives a funk whether you,ve arrived in work, are at home, in the bog.

 

[Donald Twain]

Moving slightly away from the " selfie " something to me that is equally as banal and vacuous is " checking in " on Facebook
I,m sorry I just don't get it. Letting all your cyber friends know you're every funkin move. FFS it's not the Trueman Show, who gives a funk whether you,ve arrived in work, are at home, in the bog.

Who cares what you think?

 

[COYBL25]

Who cares what you think?

True !

 

[Tramps_mate]

It's just genuinely the way the world has turned. People are superficial and judge you on your social media presence nowadays. Irritating, sure, but it isn't going to change any-time soon.

Iv no social media presence at all..

I'm done for i reckon..

Anyway. Off to work...

 

[Prevenger17]

Iv no social media presence at all..

I'm done for i reckon..

Anyway. Off to work...

Erm...


Seriously though, GOT is my social media. Staying off the grid means the government can't come into my house and take my cheese. Woolly told me this is a part of the dark net and I believe him.

 

[Kiwi]

Erm...


Seriously though, GOT is my social media. Staying off the grid means the government can't come into my house and take my cheese. Woolly told me this is a part of the dark net and I believe him.

Make sure to trust him when he asks to see your dark hole

 

[harris78]

It's a thing as old as time though, innit?

400 years ago all the rich vain people would hire an artist to draw a picture of their face and then put it up in their gallery in a git big gold frame.

Is a selfie any more vain than the mona lisa? At least the fella taking the selfie hasn't hried bleeding stephen hawking to hold his phone for him.

I'm not sure we can compare these world famous paintings to people who pose pulling duck-faces, or men posing flexing muscles etc. Also these paintings were not made in so many numbers as the selfie and were pretty much for the family who had requested the portrait to be painted. Its not like they carried it around the marketplace showing anyone who would pay the slightest bit of attention, unlike people with selfies whipping out their phone or posting on social media.

In my case it's not so much the selfie itself that grates on me, its the fact that people feel like they are their own private paprazzi and have to share with all and sundry on the internet. Its not even like selfies are a spontaneous capture of modern life. You can bet your bottom dollar that most selfies have been taken 5 or 6 times to get the 'perfect' pose.

I guess i'm just getting a grumpy old man, could you imagine though in hundreds of years time when they look back to the past and what they have to go on are these selfies with people posing and gurning like absolute beauts.