'Selfie tourism' - AIBU?

I might roll my eyes
So you'd find it annoying then! and I imagine you'd be even more annoyed if you had to wait for a number of people to get their multiple selfies in.

Other people are also entitled to take to Mumsnet and air their frustration too

But YOU were there, taking photos........

Disingenuous much?

Who cares! You were there taking photos just the same as they were.

Or is your version better because you have a "little DSLR camera"?

get over yourself

I might roll my eyes..i wouldn't take to Mumsnet whinging about it. Other people are entitled to use public spaces too.

Think of any tourist attraction and you can instantly google high quality professional pictures of it - surely what most people want to capture is that they visited it, not merely that it's there - so I don't think taking selfies is unreasonable, although if people hog a spot for ages taking hundreds of pictures, that is selfish.

Would you mind standing aside at a beautiful or interesting scene when people aren't just taking two or three photos and moving along, but possibly dozens of themselves, thus preventing you from taking a couple of pics yourself unless you wait for god knows how long?

I'm sure you would mind if truth be known.

I don’t photoshop any of my pictures! The fact that we as young women cop so much shit for just feeling confident in ourselves is heartbreaking

You went to take photos but don’t like the way other people were taking photos.

I don’t like having my photo taken but even so would be more interested in a photo of eg my mate and a sunflower than just a sunflower. What’s the point of a photo of a sunflower 🤷🏼‍♀️

also on the actually does it matter side, farmers are able to coin it in for a few months charging people to walk around a scrubby field that would otherwise be unproductive (thinking of pumpkins here) so in terms of the economy it’s a good thing. So carry on I say

You didn't answer my question.

The reality is they ARE photoshopped before sharing on social media It’s now seen as normal for everything to be photoshopped. There are even apps that apply filters to video calls. None of this is good for anyone’s mental health.

I really think maybe you should branch out into portrait photography. It might give you an appreciation for what other humans get out of it, and also the fact that nobody smiles 100% of the time. Shocker, i know.

You are coming across as pretty miserable yourself to be honest.

You don't understand why putting on a beautiful outfit that makes you feel great about yourself, and going to a beautiful place and taking a photo in which you look stunning might make you feel better about yourself?

Nobody said anything about photoshopping.

Got it in one 😁

Yanbu OP. I wonder if we live in a similar area as there is also a sunflower field near me that has the same sort of thing.

What annoys me more is there is another place nearby that has famous poppy fields where people do the same with photos. These fields, however, have been planted with the explicit purpose of providing habitat for wildlife, increasing biodiversity, providing cover for ground nesting birds etc. There are many paths around the fields for people to walk on and signs everywhere asking people to please stick to the paths and not trample the poppies. Every single time I go there, there are many, many people just totally ignoring the signs, wandering into a scenic spot in the middle of the field taking pictures of themselves, babies, dogs, trampling everything in sight and not giving a toss. Really winds me up!!

Yes, I don't understand the need to be so unoriginal either, and literally copy the same outfits, the same silly poses with the hands in the air, the short video of a twirl etc. Such sheep.

How does taking a photo of yourself, photoshopping it so it no longer looks like you, and then getting lots of people saying how beautiful the fake you looks in the picture, going to help anyone’s mental health?

Oh yes, you're so terribly concerned about the mental health of young women.

Give me a break.

Maybe taking the photos of themselves being young and beautiful in a beautiful place helps them feel better about themselves and improves their mental health.

Oh come on, you must be able to tell the difference between one or two photos of something beautiful versus multiple differently-posed photogrpahs of yourself in front of the beautiful thing.

This. I think people need to stop making way for people having photoshoots or demanding others get out of their way at these sorts of places as it’s just getting out of hand and ruining people’s enjoyment of these sights.

You're making quite a few assumptions here.

Personally, I love Facebook in the summer when I can see the photos my friends and family have taken on their travels.

I went to Barcelona recently after a gap of about 15 years. The change to the way people behave at some sites was really noticeable. We were in Casa Batllo which gets very crowded and in one particular room I couldn't understand the hold up. People were just either shuffling or standing there not being able to move. The cause? A stupid influencer standing in front of a window while someone with a tripod was taking multiple photos of her all in different poses and with different looks on her face.

What's worse is that clearly some of the people not able to move were watching this and discussing that that was a good spot for THEM to have their picture taken. So they were adding to the issue. When people are going to see the architecture of a house they want to study it and look at the details close up, they aren't bothered about having multiple selfies to make themselves look good. I just don't get it.

The selfish woman with tripod assistant was all round the house getting in our way after that. I got so fed up, I ignored them in the end and walked where I needed to go rather than stand and wait for them to finish posing. I didn't care one jot, I had paid my entrance fee like everyone else. If they wanted to hire the whole place out and treat it as their own personal studio time then that's what they should have done.

Actually the organisation who run the house had clearly noticed this desperate need for selfies because they'd created this place on the roof with a bit where you could queue to stand in front of some mosaics, and that's what people were doing. Some of them were waiting up to 10 mins just to pose. I was too busy looking at the rest of the mosaics freely available around the roof with plantpots, and reading about them. I feel those people queueing had COMPLETELY missed the point of the visit. Same people didn't seem to be bothering with the audioguide either.