When I think of people who are interested in photography, I think of f-stops, exposure, composition, lighting, the rule of thirds, filters, etc. I also think about a variable plethora of exciting pictures of everything from people to nature, animals to buildings. What I don’t think about is people who take pictures that are 95-99% of themselves.

Digital cameras (especially the ones on phones), social networking websites, and the emergence of web 2.0 have given stupid people in the 18-24 demographic an ability to share their photos with everyone who wants and doesn’t want to see them. This phenomena is the worst on MySpace. A person will take a picture of themselves, either with the face pointed down, away from the camera’s view, and the picture ends up being of their hair. This picture is supposed to convey depression and a “Help me, I’m about to cut myself again” vibe. Another typical picture is a person standing in front of a mirror, holding their phone in front of their face, and taking the picture so that their face isn’t in the photo but their body is because they want to show it off. These people need to stroke the ego (or themselves off for that matter) or improve their self-esteem (because listening to Simple Plan or The Cure non-stop isn’t helping). I have no idea how it improves self-esteem because depressed people are usually self-conscious and don’t like their body image.

Hey! Guess what idiots? You are not interested in photography. You are interested in yourself. Get yourself a mirror and build it on some sort of a hat contraption so you can wear it in front of your face all day because you obviously only care about one thing, and that’s numero uno.

note: I know my about page is filled with pictures of myself, but it filled the page up and that’s all that I was really looking for.

Tags: camera phones, digital cameras, emo, facebook, interests, low, myspace, photography, self-conscious, self-esteem, simple plan, the cure, web 2.0

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