to not want a camera in my face?

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Went to a big group meal last night (18ish people there). One person kept taking photos ... which is fine, I get candid shots are lovely but it was pretty continuous.

Anyway, the majority of people had left at around midnight and there were around 8 of us (4 male, 4 female if that's relevant) and we were in two groups.

I wasn't really involved in the conversation at that point as I getting my phone out as I'd just got a text saying my taxi was arriving shorty etc and I was taking it off silent so I would hear it ring.

One of the guys was sat behind me on a bar stool and I was sat on a normal chair so he was much higher up than me. When all of a sudden I noticed a camera placed right in my face (I had my head titled forward reading my text) taking my photo.

Now the person who did it I dislike (they don't know this, however they are a family member so thats is why I do have to see them occasionally). Now because I don't like them my view is very biased so I'm happy to be told IABU.

I'm not a rude person, the only time I had got my phone out before that was to ring for a taxi. But I think shoving a camera in someones face, taking a photo with the flash on at an awful angle (hello double chin!) is just mean and childish?

Yes very rude, doesnt matter who it is, so intrusive.

YANBU. I really hate this propensity for taking photos every damn minute, in a social setting. Went to a nightclub recently, for a friend's birthday do. So many people were taking photos, including the event organisers for their FB page it got on my last nerve - its as if you can't let your hair down have a night out in peace, you have to be "camera ready", its ridiculous. I think its here to stay though as its so common nowadays.

Yanbu, annoying? yes. but who cares about the camera ready face and double chins, I'd be more bothered about just not being asked if it was towards the end and one on one photo - get the f**k out of your face!

UANBU

I hate this too.

The only thing more annoying than some knob head sticking a phone in your face and telling you to smile is finding out the next day that the knob head has also been taking photos of you unawares and has plastered them all over Facebook.

if it was towards the end and one on one photo

Sorry I should have made my OP more clear. He wasn't taking a candid shot of me.

My head was tilted forward and he reached the camera under me so it was literally a couple of cms from my face. Purposely taking a horrible photo of me - whether to just annoy me or laugh at how horrible I looked in it, I don't know

YADNBU!!! IMO the two worst times to take people's photos are when they are eating and when you are talking and you lot would have been doing both.

Thats just rude, the down side of technology. I look terrible in pictures so i would have been annoyed too.

A colleague did this to me once on a works night out. Only my instinct reaction was to smack it away out of my face like you would an annoying fly or bee and his phone fell on the floor and smashed. I can't say I felt guilty, nor did I offer to repair it.

Yanbu.