Selfie filters

[Anyotherdude]

I never use these (because I’m old!), but am quite puzzled that extremely filtered pictures of young people are now being used alongside headlines in some newspapers, alongside some pretty sad stories, among others.
Is it just me that thinks that a newsworthy article shouldn’t be showing lighthearted fantasy-filtered representations of these people , but their true images?
Or is it because many youngsters don’t dare to publish “real” images of themselves, so the newspapers are respecting that?

I've spotted this. There was someone recently who had been jailed - they showed her Facebook picture alongside her police photo and it looked like a completely different person. I guess the journos are just padding out the page with extra photos.

I remember being quite shocked that the picture used for one of the Manchester bombing victims was with a full Snapchat filter rendering her completely unrecognisable - and I think at this stage she was still down as missing.

(Mind you, if I was her mother I would probably have been too distressed to find a "proper" picture.)

The photos of my youth might be confined to a couple of shoe-boxes' worth, many of which are accidental pictures of half a beermat and an ashtray, but at least those that exist show what I actually looked like. I fear the middle-aged of twenty years' time seeking to relive their prime will have nothing more than 20,000 identical pictures of a Barbie doll's head.

Often notice the same. Or sometimes photos with that really weird pout. I am so desperate for the weird pout thing to go out of fashion. I follow a lot of curly hair groups on FB and so many people post pictures with the weird pout. And if they're not doing the weird pout and wearing a lot of makeup they apologise for their face! It makes me feel sad.

I thought this with that truly awful car accident where they were missing for a few days. The pictures of the girls that were released were very heavily filtered.

I don't really get it to be honest. Like you say is if media respecting the fact that's the images that they were happy to post themselves so they were used out of respect?

There's lots on fb of missing teens recently where they are heavily filtered to the point of the person being totally unrecognisable. How are you meant to look out for someone when you don't actually know what they look like?

I agree, it's just so strange, they all look identical

I'm not sure they have any unfiltered pictures to show in some cases.

I think using them too much can warp your self image, so that you start to think the filtered you is the 'real' you & the way you actually look when photographed is a 'bad' representation.

This

Article today about this in the Daily Mail. Two young women explaining why they use filters - SM 'likes' playing a big part in it. Rather sad to see these two nice-looking, fresh-faced women so unhappy with their natural looks.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11870417/TikTok-filter-gave-professional-makeover-risks-stealing-self-esteem-generation.html

Yes.
I remember a filtered photo of a young woman who was missing being released by her family.

Then CCTV of her looking completely unrecognisable being released by the police.

And she was dead at the end of it all.

It depends tbh, not all filters change your appearance drastically to the extent people can’t recognise you. There’s a spectrum of choices

She potentially died the day she went missing though as that’s unfortunately common. You’re almost suggesting the lack of public tip offs lead to her death as she couldn’t be located, when it could be the case her life ended before the police appeal began as is the case in many dead missing person cases

It's very weird and must contribute to people's insecurity hugely.
DD1 once applied a filter to photos she shared of the two of us, it was quite subtle so at first I just thought I looked really good in them! It probably contributed to me keeping an unflattering haircut for longer than I should have.

But it seems,recently many are using the extreme choice.The woman who wrongly accused 3 men of rape looked totally unrecognisable in her police photo as opposed to her filtered social media photo.

She potentially died the day she went missing though as that’s unfortunately common. You’re almost suggesting the lack of public tip offs lead to her death as she couldn’t be located, when it could be the case her life ended before the police appeal began as is the case in many dead missing person cases

Of one of my children went missing, I'd release a photo that represented what she looked like. Just in case she wasn't dead.

I wouldn't think

'She's probably dead already so I'll release this more glamorous photo'

Dot they usually lift them from Facebook?

No they don't all change appearance drastically. Though the young people (25 and under usually) who use filters you can tell it is them, but a better version of them. It doesn't really look like an accurate representation.

The worst look is where the photo is completely hazy. Like Vaseline over a lens.

If they're actively looking for someone these filtered pictures aren't at all helpful (unless it's all they've got).