To ask friend to limit the photos on a night out?

[Ziggitypop]

So, I'm going out with the girls next week, I love them, they're brilliant
But
One of the gang has a real obsession with photos. She's in her early 40's (we all are) but an average day she'd post about 3 or 4 selfie type photos on FB. Trout pose type things. A recent weekend away resulted in 56 photos, almost all selfie type poses rather than photos reflecting the weekend away.
Fine if that's what she wants to do, it's her life.

The problem is, since ds was born I have piled on a lot of weight, I'm really self conscious, never feel attractive and hate having my picture taken.
Every outing with her becomes an endless round of "now all pout, let's all blow kisses, now all pull face etc..." Photos.
Which will be on FB before our food's arrived!
I'm not a complete grinch, no objection to the odd group pic or action shot. I just want to relax.
Aibu to text before hand and just ask her to keep pics to a minimum?
I'm starting to dread going because of this as I hate the way I look!!

Get everyone to put their phones on the table. The first one to crack and give in to temptation to pick up their phone buys everyone else a round of drinks.

In your shoes I wouldn't want to tell her to limit the stories, but I would be perfectly happy to message her and say I didn't want to be photographed. You might find you are not be the only one n the group who feels that way.
If you think your preference isn't valid, you could back it up by saying your school is starting to make noises about social media.

Heaven help any friends who post a photo of me on social media. 😈
I think I can only remember one who did it, once! No one else even tried to do it after that!

I am very vain. I just admit that loudly and ask to see all photos before they get posted.

She sounds like a teenager! I'd hate that too, tell her you hate having your picture taken or duck out!

Take some really unflattering shots of her and publish one every time she tags you

Fish pout selfies are for stupid teens and beige painted non entities. Tell her that. And laugh at her too for being such an airhead!

Just tell her the truth. You don't feel wonderful and you just want to relax without being papped! Some people love have their photos on others don't I think most friends would respect your decision without feeling hurt.

I dont have facebook - hate it, but most of my friends do so I am on there somewhere, which I dont mind too much, but what really annoys me is photos of my children on there, I have repeatedly asked one friend to take photos of my DC down, they were taken at a party and I had specifically asked her to take them down when she was showing me.
Why do people think it is ok to put photos of other peoples children on the internet against the permission of said childrens parents?! - NOT cool people! At least my DCs names are not on there.

What is it with selfies? So many look as if they are sucking on a .........

I have a FB friend who does this. No idea why she needs to post 100 selfies on her feed everytime she leaves the house. Thankfully she's not a friend in RL (more like a casual acquaintance who works in the same office as me) so I'm not likely to appear in any of them.

She also writes endless, gushing status updates about how she is so blessed to have such wonderful friends, beautiful children, fabulous husband etc etc. Insecure much...?

What actually bothers me more than her endless statuses and selfies though are the pictures she puts up of her 2yo DD. In every photo this 2yo is pulling the same stupid pose & duck face as her DM (hand on hip, attitude pose, trout pout etc). She's 2 FFS

Hmm. My point would be that unless you're always on your own people will be able to look at you all the time. So not sure what the difference is with a photo and that? Isn't it a bit like asking people to never look at you?

Totally get this...hate it with a vengeance. Have had the most hideous unaware pics posted online..by similarly obsessed face bookers. YA definitely NBU!