Social media helps us present a perfect, idealised version of ourselves to the world. We are great looking in our display pictures, have perfect relationships if our statuses are anything to go by and take marvellous holidays as the carefully chosen photos demonstrate. Reality could be a little different, but our vanity demands that we present an ideal version of ourselves to others.
Only the most flattering pictures are to be used as DPs; even if those pictures belie reality.
We are encouraged to see things from an altogether different perspective.
Breathing in versus breathing out; an expression of calm repose versus an angry grimace can make a dramatic difference if Instagram is to be believed.
The spots, acne, stretch marks, cellulite --- all smoothed away --- with a little bit of help from the friendly photoshop app.
…When you can just ‘borrow’ someone else’s body? Thanks to numerous easy to use editing apps, morphing a face on to someone else's body is as easy as A B C now.
Sometimes it’s just the angle from which a picture is taken that decides the difference between just ‘ho hum’ and ‘wow’! It would seem that Instagram teaches us more about angles than geometry class ever did.
Thats supposedly spontaneous picture? There is a lot more to it than meets the eye: careful makeup, flattering angle and much else.
If there was no rain, how would we get a load of those chiseled abs through that clingy wet white tee. On the other hand actual rain would spoil that carefully coiffed do! So wet the tee, take a pic and add the rain later – solv-ed!
Only one of the two people in that picture seems happy – she also claims to be in love. Alas neither emotion seems to be shared by the other person in the picture.
Even stars don’t look as good as their photos in real life – they have the luck of their genes, the advantage of trainers and stylists and photo-shop expert – and they still manage to look like this. So Instagram versus reality is not always disappointing. Sometimes the reality cheers us up!
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