Filtered SM images that look like different people

[StrawberryDream24]

Can someone explain to me the thinking behind people (in this case I think it's entirely women) using images of themselves on FB that are so heavily filtered (and sometimes out of date) that they look like completely different people?

Does anyone else find this mind boggling?

I mean, anyone who knows them in person;; knows they don't look like that.

Are they getting gratification out of thinking people who don't know them in person or haven't seen them in person for a long time ...believe they look like that (?)

Are they not embarrassed that people who know them or who've seen them recently will look at the images and think "wtaf, you don't look anything like that?" or "Who is that?" ?

Is this some sort of delusion?

(Examples;

I was introduced to a young relative's girlfriend a while back - whose FB profile had been popping up on my "people you may know" since she started seeing my young relative and friended his family on FB.

I was completely non plussed and had to hide how confused I was, because the FB profile image that had been popping up was (and still is) of a tiny, thin young woman with bleached hair, posing in mini dress; but I was introduced to a v curvy young woman with brown hair who even facially appears to look nothing like the young woman in the FB profile image.

For a moment I thought he must have ended things with the young woman in the profile and gotten together with another young woman; except she had exactly the same name, and it's an extremely uncommon name, I had to assume it was the same person and was just left with trying to hide my non plussed expression.
The FB profile pic still seems to be up, so it"s definitely her.

Another young woman I know as an acquaintance (though she's not as young as my relative's gf) posts heavily filtered images of herself on Facebook regularly.
They don't look like her. They look like a different person. (She's generally posting saying she e.g. got a new hair cut and apparently prompting comments/compliments).
This is an intelligent young woman with kids, who's doing a masters and building a career.

I just don't get it.

There's trying to look your best but then there's posting images that look like a different person.

What's the point?

Sorry but you 'know' it's silly and insecure'? 🙄So why do it, what's the point? FFS!! 😕

I kno someone who professes to ‘hate filters’ then posts the most filtered, edited photos you’ve ever seen. She always alters the photos to look slim with ‘abs’. Unfortunately she forgets that she has the fattest, cellulite ridden legs and never airbrushes these. The results are very strange

It's bizarre I agree

Some are so filtered their features almost blur into their faces.
If I sell things on marketplace the person that turns up to collect is always hugely different to their profile pic. Bizarre
I obv would quire like to be far slimmer and younger than I am now..but I'd feel odd putting on a pic that wasn't me. Altho I currently have a pic of the dog as she's more attractive than me 😃

I don't photograph well - soft features and I just look like a bloody turnip. I don't bother with filters, because I know it would make me feel worse and self-conscious about what is otherwise my perfectly ordinary face and body. Plus I have always wondered what the point is, when my friends and family see me IRL and know what I actually look like!

I don't need things to make me feel insecure about a beauty standard that I don't conform to or want to meet. I also feel really strongly that it's bad for society in general - we are all different and that's what makes us interesting. Rather than all looking like one homogeneous mass of long hair, huge eyes, massive pouts, razor-edged cheekbones and completely poreless and flawless skin.

The worst are the Snapchat ones which look like they were generated on a commodore 64 such is the extent to which they remove detail from faces.

It's sad really. People are comparing their true selves to filtered and airbrushed images on social media so feel they have to do the same because their natural selves aren't beautiful or photogenic enough for empty Internet likes.

I don’t get it either op. I think it’s completely pointless. All it tells me is those who do this seem to either lack self esteem and can’t post any pictures of themselves without filtering them or that they actually seriously think they look that way in real life.

What gets me is when these people post these heavily filtered pictures on social media, there’s always usually between 30 to 60 comments from their friends saying “gorgeous” or “stunning” or “beautiful”. These people who comment know the person looks absolutely nothing like that in real life, it’s extremely bizarre! I would never comment on someone’s pictures if they used heavy filters to the point it changes their appearance.

@DelicateSoundOfEchos that’s the reality it seems though.

This is what I find absolutely hilarious though. I’ve chatted to many men on dating apps who have moaned about previous dates not looking anything like their pictures when they’ve met in real life and then proceed to tell me they walked out.
Do men seriously think these women are going to look heavily filtered with blurred faces in real life?
To be honest, the guys who arrange dates with women who have these sort of ridiculous pictures on their dating profiles are just as much to blame and I have very little sympathy for these men if they are really that stupid they thought the woman was going to look the same as in her pictures when it’s fairly obvious she has used filters

It is getting totally ridiculous now.

Having regular staff 'Teams' meetings I noticed the other week a staff member had obviously added some sort of filter. Why? We all see you in the office and previously on the Teams meetings so why change your appearance now? Now you come up all soft focus, blurry and weird looking. Hopefully you won't be adding those kitten ears and hearts at some stage 😬

Sometimes I see friends I haven't seen in a while, but I'm accustomed to the photos they post of themselves on SM. I always do a double take IRL.

I don't understand filters.

I know people who do it and I just think "why" . A friend did it to a photo of me and her once and I was actually quite offended. I may not be super model attractive but I'm happy with my appearance and don't need my face reshaping and my skin tone changing or soft focus, I didn't even look like me.

I will admit that I've put a slightly soft focus on my Teams but took it off as it looked weird. Now I just have the horrible Teams look that everyone has 😂.

For a great example of insanely filtered insta pics, take a look at Kathy Hilton’s instagram.

this pic with Faye Resnick and Kris Jenner is absolutely hilarious

https://www.reddit.com/r/RHOBH/comments/1h4aqoh/kathy_hilton_jen_tilly_faye_resnick_kris_jenner/?rdt=47076

I don't know what my friend does to her photos but her eyes always look really weird and her face a completely different shape. She's really pretty IRL but these photos don't do her any favours. I always say if she ever goes missing, no one would ever find her based on her SM profile picture!

Yes. I feel embarrassed for the Erwin doing it.

*person!

You are being completely unreasonable, narcissists are people with feelings too. Not real feelings obviously, like real people, but simulated virtue signalling feelings that can be summarised with an emoji or a SM like. We live in weird times.

I immediately thought of her too!

maybe a laugh when you are in your teens but just looks totally ridiculous at a certain age, especially if you already have the lips & fillers. Most men Ive spoke to don’t like the look, they prefer natural, plus these woman all look the same. Fellas realise it’s all fake.

Maybe she’s had a rough night 🤣

It’s like that c &w song, “I’ve never been to bed with an ugly woman, but sure woke up with a few “🤣

What boggles my mind more is usually these pictures have lots of comments under saying 'you look amazing' /stunning/ beautiful as always or some other load of nonsense and I always think is it just me or are other people just stupid to believe this.

Exactly this!!

As an employer I always check social media before interviewing and I remember interviewing a guy that on their social media (and their CV) had a photo of an incredibly (typically) handsome, young suited city lawyer. The guy I met was at least 55, overweight, unshaven and looked like he was dressed in a bath robe. Still a lawyer. The photo was definitely him - but clearly from the early 90s!! I liked him a lot, he was funny, warm, clever but I couldn’t employ him. That was such a turn off and duplicitous- not a character trait you want in a lawyer believe it or not.

It is a strange practice. I'm sure some know and feel bad about it. Some do not know as well. Someone from work showed me a photo recently and I was genuinely confused who I was looking at. They were trying to get me to guess who the photo was of. It turns out it was them with someone I used to know, but I thought I was guessing both people as hand on heart could not make the link. I couldn't make either of them due to the heavy filtering and the way the faces had been reshaped. I ended up feeling bad. I'm not on social media picture sharing sites so I miss a lot of this/wasn't used of this colleagues filtered image.

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