Flip through magazines, turn on the t.v, walk around in the city looking at billboards and advertisements. Its everywhere. You can't get away from it. We are bombarded with it. And its what teen girls are striving to be.
Most likely if you are a teenager of any gender, age, race etc, if you go on to your Facebook and look through your friends (specifically girls) profile pictures its clear to see that everyone is striving to have the same thing. Your profile picture on Facebook is one of the main things that defines you; one of the first things people see when they visit your profile, and boy do we know it. Teens, especially females, can take literally hundreds of photos of themselves, with the final goal of the 'perfect' profile picture, which must go through the whole editing process, with the strong hope to get lots of comments and numerous 'likes' . The Internet has basically given all of the resources to have your own personal 'me magazine' with websites such as http://www.picnik.com/, which is basically just an easy to use Photo Shop where girls can make their skin look perfectly toned, their faces look thinner, their eyes look brighter, get rid of acne, and basically change one single picture into something that barely resembles their real selves. I like to call this The Profile Picture Disease, some have it more intense then others but most girls are victim to it. How can something such as our profile picture on Facebook be so easy to fake? How can something that is supposed to define us and show who we really are be so easy to makeup this new person with no teenage acne and no neck fat? None of us are perfect, but for some reason we all love to make ourselves look perfect on Facebook. Don't we know that all the people we have as friends on Facebook that will view our Profile Picture have probably seen our flaws in person, and still seem to like us. So why do we try and have this perfect still frame of ourselves?
I wonder what Facebook would look like without websites such as Picnik, and special camera settings and makeup .....would Facebook just be a huge crowd of very ugly people?
or real people?
You decide.
Could you put up a picture with zero makeup, zero editing........just the real you........*GASP*
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I use to strive to have the perfect profile picture, but in the last two years, I have realized that it really doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteI don't need to impress anyway, and I wish all girls would realize that they should love themselves for who they are. A few pimples, a few blemishes, never hurt anybody.
Haha, I do admit I'm one of those girls, just something I like to do though, take pictures in general. Alot of people put up pictures that are unedited anyways, but you do bring out good points.
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