For hating filters on children?!

[sleepfortheweek]

It actually kind of grates on me when every single picture a person posts on social media has a filter on it to give them a fully made up face and a Botox complexion, honestly sometimes the picture is literally nothing like what they look like in RL.

There are a couple, actually more than a couple, of people in my social media circles who don't only use these filters on themselves - but also their children. Their 3yos look like they are wearing eyelash extensions, blusher and fake tan on every. Single. Photo.

Should we not be embracing our natural
beauty and teaching our children to do the same? We shouldn't feel like we should look like film stars at every moment if the day, it's such a dangerous cycle to be in.

Or should I just go put my granny slippers on and delete my social
Media accounts if I can't handle the way things are going 🙈

Just to be clear - it's not the funny/comedy filters which make you look like an alien or bunny rabbit - it's the ones which make you look like you have been air brushed

Actually maybe I should try it before I knock it 🤣

I would never put a filter on my children. I agree YANBU

Yep, you aren't wrong there!

Totally agree.
Way to teach your kid they don’t look nice enough as they are.

People are insecure shrugs shoulders

Yeah I agree. I don't get the standard "huge eye" one that lots of people use. It makes them look like weird creepy aliens and they get lots of comments about how gorgeous they are

Totally agree there’s a woman on my FB posts photos of her children and herself everyday always with filters on them makes me sad like they’re not nice enough without them.

I’ve seen her in real life she’s in her 50s wrinkles and all like the rest of us

Completely agree with you. I find it really distasteful but particularly with children.
I stumbled across my next door neighbours Facebook profile and all her photos are so heavily filtered I would never have known it was her except she has an unusual name. IRL she looks mid thirties but her filtered pics make her look fifteen!

I agree, absolutely horrible using filters on children (wouldn't use one on myself either!)

Filters are weird as fuck generally. There’s a woman on my Facebook who only ever posts filtered photos of her and her husband. They look like plastic dolls. Odd...

People are insecure shrugs shoulders

About how their children look?

I don’t get the filters thing at all to be honest. I have a couple of friends who filter all of their photos so they’re airbrushed and they look 20. We all know what they look like in real life (normal middle aged women with some wrinkles) but some of my other friends are like ‘you look beautiful babe!’. Why?

Have yet to see airbrushed kids though.

Even mother and baby selfies seem to have filters. Gross.

Actually ignore last post, I have seen it once. My friend airbrushed her 12 year old DD. It wasn’t obvious at first but you could tell. I felt sad for the child that their mum felt the need to do that.

A family member posts several times a day photos of her baby, but all with the beauty/eyelash filter. Every single photo. I feel sad for the child when she grows up and all her baby photos look ridiculous and actually nothing like her

The whole filter thing is out of control. It's ridiculous to alter your appearance so much it doesn't even resemble the actual person.

And the people who compliment the filtered person, WTAF?
Have also seen heavily filtered newborns. Some people are mad!

Wow I thought I was going to get some grief but seems like everyone agrees!

Yes I also cringe at the 'you look gorjus hun' comments.

My DSis does this. Her 9 month old hasn’t had a photo sent around from birth that didn’t have filters used on it. I think it started because DSis couldn’t bear her own face without ‘looking younger’ filters, and yet wanted pics with both her and baby in.

My niece looks like an adorable troll doll- those huge kawaii eyes in an unnatural shade of cosmic blue, and slightly iridescent dolphin skin!

I assume she’ll be a bit to want her baby pics one day and only find these... cartoon versions?

There's a school mum in our village who's face book profile pic is a porn like selfie (lying back with hair all spread out, looking up seductively with the pic cropped just to the nipple) (barely recognisable as her IRL with a load of these filters btw).

It's weird enough when it pops up during the usual arguments about dog shite and parking on the community page, but now it's there on the home schooling page every morning when she 'registers' her DC.

It's really really **

Definitely YANBU. It's weird. I was a bit annoyed when the nursery shared photos from a leaving do and there were filtered pics of the DC. Why do it? It's odd as fuck when adults do it and the compliments flood in 'you look gawjus hun!' when it's so very obviously unnatural - I mean, you might as well share a cartoon picture! My DC are beautiful enough and need no enhancement! Although it reminds me of Years and Years when one of the characters has a filter that can be applied in real life...we're probably not that long off from it become a reality shudders

@Laiste that's very weird

I see this complaint pretty often on mumsnet but it doesn’t translate to my social media. So maybe it’s just your friends?

ColourMeExhausted - reminds me of Years and Years when one of the characters has a filter that can be applied in real life...we're probably not that long off from it become a reality shudders

Super. We've to look forward to every one walking round with bloody bunny ears and puppy noses as well then!

Ha ha @Laiste your school mum acquaintance will have all her dreams come true!!