I hate pictures being taken of me which is very hard for me because of the culture we now live in. Every moment of our lives has to be captured and put online forever for the whole world to see. Whenever a person walks into a shop to buy a loaf of bread it has to be live streamed on Facebook.
It's mainly for anxiety reasons but also because I'm a very private person. I don't want to broadcast what I do and where I go to the whole world. If I take my children to the zoo for the day I don't think it's anyone else's business. I won't be taking selfies and putting them on Facebook, call me weird.
But I understand that I'm the odd one out here and I can't make the whole world revolve around me. If I go out with friends they will probably take pictures and it's so hard for me.
I do say to people that I don't like it. Some people are OK with it, some people don't get the message and they think I'm joking or something and some people are di*h*ds and and have a very narrow mind and they think that just because they like pictures that must be right for everyone.
I'm very shy/nervous and stuff and always worry about humiliation so it's hard to ask people not to take pictures. If I'm having a meal with 20 friends and I suddenly get up when someone whips their phone out it looks odd. But if I don't I'd be in the picture and that would be awful. So I'm very stuck.
I sometimes offer to take the picture myself so I don't feel so weird about it but its hard to speak up sometimes because I'm quiet.
I feel that avoiding pictures completely just doesn't work in 2020. Unless I stay in my bedroom and never leave. But then I would have no social life. So I can't win either way.
So what is your advice? I can't un-invent the camera. I feel there is no answer.