Teenage girls and those stupid fucking photos give me the rage

[witchofzog]

I have stepdaughters and as a result have them and a few of their friends (who added me) on fb. They are constantly taking selfies of themselves either on their own or in groups with their hands over their faces so all you can see is one eye or a bit of skin. Either that it it's photos taken in the mirror with a flash so all you can see is their shoes or a shoulder. And there are hundreds of them.

It gives me a totally irrational rage. What is the fucking point? There are going to be a whole generation of girls who will have next to no photos of themselves at this age. I really don't get it. Beautiful girls who won't show their faces. Just why?

I think I need to hide most of these posts on FB before I give myself a hernia

I have no teenagers on my feed, refuse all young relatives/ children of friends so I need an example of this hand over face craze please!

It's literally no difference than the MASSES of photos of my friends and me all glaring at the camera, hair backcombed and lipstick a wonky. The only difference is they are all stored safely at my parents' house instead of online. Thank THE LORD!!!

It's not all teens though - mine and many of their friends are similarly baffled and scathing of the 'one eye' type look. They think it's attention-seeking, and the 'you're gorgeous' comments ridiculous. And none of them have sharpie eyebrows. So there's hope.

Beautiful girls who won't show their faces. Just why?

Why should they show their faces? Are they there to adorn the world?

You need to calm down OP. They are teenagers, and teenagers do silly things- it's their job. I have two teenagers. they are playing around with the medium and their image, I don't see any harm in that. It's preferable to taking sexually provocative pictures and posting them.
To have a "rage" is a complete over- reaction.

You should be grateful that your stepdaughters and their friends have added you as friends on FB.

Hide the feed if it bothers you so much.

Well I think it's marginally better than a 30 year old doing the same shit...I've deleted people who take and post constant selfies and then get a million likes and comments. It's so fake.

YABU. They're teenagers. We used to pay for the privilege in a photo booth in Woolworths at their age.

Get a grip, it's only Facebook

YABU to have accepted Friend requests from so many teenagers! I just rejected any of DCS friends who tried to add me. I didn't think it was appropriate and, quite frankly, I didn't want to know every detail of their lives! I even refused to add my neice and nephew until they were all grown up :)

Consequently, I am delighted to say I haven't idea what poses you are talking about. Duck Face I get, sharpie eyebrows I get but the rest, no. However, as I have my own teenage girl in waiting, I suspect I will find out sooner than I might like.

I've got a few school friends on FB (48yo) who photograph themselves on nights out with the cat's bum look.

I also see pictures of beautiful babies and toddlers with dummies. If your child wants a dummy, fine but let's see their lovely little faces without it.

patterkiller at bubble writing flashback

looking over prom pictures I came across some with whole groups of teens covering their faces with their arms.
dd was equally baffled. What does it mean? why did they get all dolled up then hide themselves? It doesn't make me feel anything other than mild curiosity though.

There was a very funny piece in the Mail online yesterday about a Dad who was so fed up with his daughter gurning into mirrors and taking selfies to post on social media that he reproduced every selfie himself for his own facebook.

Daughter wasn't impressed.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3663232/Dad-recreates-daughter-s-selfies.html

Etta - yes they are all accompanied by similar comments

Mrs Hardy Those photos annoy me too. They KNOW they look bloody lovely andxare blatantly just fishing.

I think many of you are right. I should never have accepted friend requests from stepdaughters friends though to be fair many of them come via them as they are tagged into lots of them too.

And I know I am being unreasonable really. They are teenagers after all. We all did daft things at the same age. I did say the race was irrational
I don't think they are there to adornthe world Pearly. But why put so many pics on
that are basically of nothing but hands and an eye. You can't even see where they are

Off to look at the daily fail link now

I'm pretty sure teens have been irrationally annoying adults since a cavemans daughter wore her pelt too short.

Unfriend, or unfollow or don't accept their requests in the first place.

I think most things on Facebook are annoying. Mine is full of smuggins parents and couple selfies. I'd get rid of them all if it wasn't so handy for messaging.

I'm just glad FB wasn't around in my yoof, girls these days are going to have everlasting reminders of how ridiculous they sometimes look
Mind you in my day we wore mostly baggy shapeless clothes, very bad makeup and don't mention the hair. These days even with duck pouts they're all so bloody gorgeous.

Exactly !

It's the weird cloned hair that gets me. I have sons of 9 and 13 and 99% of girls in their class have the same long straight hair. There's no individuality. Do they shoot the curly haired ones at birth?

The daily mail link is funny as,think I might show my dd and do the same,it is a bit annoying but I guess I'm lucky my dd is on my Facebook. 😊

reup no, they spend 17 hours a day with the GHDs ironing all the individuality curl out 😕 (Speaks the mother of a DD with long curly hair)

I think they are so funny.

I love seeing them, it makes me smile.

I can't imagine being so angry over what teens do.

BTW it isn't just girls.

My two teen boys do exactly the same.

Sorry for all the posts.

I just looked at my son's FB. His profile picture is him with dog ears and a dog nose stuck on from a filter.

He has many replies saying he looks hot as hell. How can that make you angry? It's bloody hilarious!

My SIL and her b/f are incapable of taking a photo of themselves without gurning or puling a ridiculous face it bugs the shit out of me as they look so bloody stupid.

They are both late twenties.

My DNeice is just a bit older than this - early twenties - and she and her friends now re-send each other the old photos from a few years back saying "what did we look like?!" or similar.

So as PP's have said perhaps it will give them something to laugh about together a few years down the line?

Just whizzed through thread, my DD is late 20s now, but recognise what OP means. Also, what does 'bae' mean? It's everywhere!! Who just invents words? and old.

On holidays with friends back in the day we used to always take those cheapo disposable cameras then meet up and laugh at them when they'd been developed. The worst ones were always the best/funniest.
These days they are all so staged and no fun.
Although, as someone with naturally messy as fuck curly hair, I would've loved a pair of ghd's as a teen. Didn't mind the curls in my 20's though when everyone else's was poker straight and I had discovered curl cream

U2. It's not the dog photos or other snapchat type ones. They are hilarious. It's the pointless ones with just a small amount of cheek or an eye on show, everything else being covered by a hand. The ones that are staged and take an a entity to take (I have witnessed the painful process a couple of times now when they have been taken at home) We used to take some daft pics when I was a teen too. Moody ones, silly ones, wearing daft clothes or pulling stupid faces. But you could see our faces. Just what is the point of hundreds of photos of your hands?? I can look back at my photos, smile at how silly we were and how much I have changed (I am definitely a lot more squidgy for a start ). I think when these girls look back in a few years time they won't be able to remember what each photo is of or where they were taken as they are literally mostly all the same.