Selfies! Stop it!
 

I have a friend who posts a new one EVERY DAY on Facebook. This gal is pretty but she is also over 16 (middle aged...like me!). I am thinking of blocking her...i am tired of the selfies. Frankly, i am bored with most selfies. My bad?

Sandy

I, too, have a friend who posts multiple selfies of herself each week. She just turned 30 and has two adorable little boys. I would prefer to see photos of them. One day I posted the word Narcissist with its definition...and the selfies dropped dramatically. LOL.

Don't do facebook so no need for me to deal with selfies! I think the whole thing is idiotic, myself.

I think your friends are kin to my niece. Had to block her. The difference in her pics, she likes to always have a glass of some kind of alcoholic beverage in her hand. Yes, she likes her alcohol

I have thought of posting narcissist too! Glad you had a good result. I once posted "Again?" on her FB page and she laughed it off. I guess former beauties just need the attention...and she gets it with every selfie posted. she is a great gal, I love her friendship. I try to let it roll off.

Yes, FB is addictive but one reason I like it is to keep in touch with friends and family that I otherwise would not see or contact. I hear the latest news, even in the news, by trolling the newsfeed. So I guess the selfie is minor....maybe.
sandy

I too don't see the fascination with selfies. If I was young and beautiful I might.:D

The next time she applies for a job, if her employers check her FB page, it will not look good.

lol...:D:D

re Facebook...I do email, snail mail, and phone. I prefer my info not be "out there". That is just me.

I use Facebook for quilting. Lots of great give aways, flash sales, and free patterns. I won a Go Baby, Aurifil thread sets, rulers, books, magazines, pattern, quilt kits and too many fat quarter packs to count. Facebook is a great resource for quilting. I have a personal Facebook page for family stuff. I don't mind blocking any family member if they start posting annoying pics.

I do some Facebook and do like the occasional selfie but every day -- I think not!

I have blocked a few ppl on facebook because Everyday they post a pic of grandkids, not my circus, not my monkey.
but I like FB as someone said to keep up with the news. and I really like the quilting stuff I see.

Only see selfies with my new Granddaughter in law and Grandson. He is Army and living in Virginia/D.C. area. So they are very welcomed.

Selfie don't bother me.....it's very easy to just hide someone's feed so there is no need to see them everyday. Then you just have to go see their page if you are interested. Pictures, of kids, grandkids or even your dog are fine with me, even the silly game requests are not a problem again easy enough to hide or block.

I hate the high horse political crap even if I agree with your views I'm tired of being beat upside the head with them. Personally I like FB for the pictutes and often amusing stories from my friends and family. I find if I am hiding thier posts often enough or censoring my probably rude comment on post then maybe we are not really friends after all so I unfriend them. Unless they have very few friends they will never notice.

Most of my "Friends" are cousins (I have a LOT) - funny how some are so conservative and others are so liberal!! I read it all.

What I can't stand are the self-righteous, "if you don't repost this or set as your profile picture for an hour, I know you don't really care about me/my religion/my cause."

Omg that's the other one I hate most people who post those do nothing in real life to make a difference. I call it self righteous grandstanding.

My pet peeve is people who "share" absolutely everything that comes to their page. I finally just click on the "no notifications" and every once in awhile I'll check on her home page to see if there's anything she wrote herself; not much! (my Sis...and I love her very much, but I'm not interested in horror news stories or things that look like something from a trash magazine.... ) oh well... whatever floats your boat.... FB works for some of us and not so much for others... great that we get the choice.

Haha... just for fun I checked her page... there are 17 shares & not one of her own postings. :D

I have blocked alot of people. I don't care for frequent selfies, I don't need to know what people are doing every moment of the day, I don't want political posts, I don't want invites to play games, and I don't care for rude cartoons. I guess I'm just a pretty dull person.

My eye doctor did a selfie when I was in his office. I no longer go to him, which has been over 4 or 5 years. Really turned me off.

I have to agree with NJ Quilter, I don't do facebook, twitter or whatever other kind of "social media" crap that is out there.

THAT is hilarious! Scary, sad too.
Sandy

Oddly I didn't even know what a selfie is, had to ask my son.

Facebook is wastebook, get a life.

I agree with you! Why are folks so obsessed with their selves? I have a middle aged friend that changes her profile picture several times a week. All selfies. she can never take a candid shot, all are posed. And when she takes pictures of her grandkids she is always in them. It is pretty self centered if you ask me. Get over your self already!

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I agree..there is too much of information that is out there about an individual ... just amazing !

I check FB about once a day to see what the kids/GKs are up to, and I like to see photos of them. I rarely post anything. (and DEFINITELY no selfies!!)

You are not alone, I am not one to let everyone know each time I turn around. Feel they are obsessed and something is lacking in their life.

Facebook fans say the same thing about quilting board fans.

That is pretty rude. Facebook can be just another way of looking at quilting. It is no more of a waste than this page is. Each to their own.

I have a friend like this, too. It cracks me up. She may have cute grandkids, but we will never know because she manages to take up more than half the space in every picture. :D

Wow that is harsh, condensinding and judgemental. Guess what you are using a form of social media right now and would not be pleased if someone told you to get a life. The original poster was talking about a trend she dosen't care for some people agreed others like me mentiond things that bug us more....none of us were looking for self righteous judgement infering that this social media is superior to another one.

I have never taken one of those in my entire 60 years on this planet. What ever happened to having a friend take the shot?

Worse!!!! I unfriended an acquaintance who would post pictures of herself with a Bentley in the background with the caption, "Just chilling at home." Selfies at 5 star restaurants, magnificent trips, beautiful interiors of her home, etc. I thought she should just take a picture of money and say, "Look what I have!" Yeow.

Oh, and if you ever take a selfie don't hold the camera low. There is a reason!

I am on Facebook daily checking in with family and friends mostly. There is a former coworker daily doing selfies. Very vane from the first day I met her. Used to be pro body builder and "supposedly" trying to get back into it. Any photos of full body selfie is shot from quite distance. Saw her the other day and she looked like it was all she could do to breathe. I guess that is why they made spanx. Most selfies are shot from an above angle. She has taught her children how to pose. She learned that from earlier body building days. Am I jealous? No. Hardly. I've worked hard for my body fat.

I don't do selfies. IF I post a picture of myself it is because someone
else took it of me not taking it myself. For the most part I don't have
a photo of me on my profile.

Usually my profile is one of my cats, or something I made. Or a funny
sewing/quilting related saying.

I stopped the feeds from my middle daughter because all she did was
post selfies and complain about her course load (college classes) but
failing to understand that SHE is the one who selected that course load
nobody else.

I like facebook for many reasons, I have been able to hook up long lost
friends who I hadn't talked to since childhood, found cousins that I knew
about but never met (on dads side), and am in MANY groups for sewing,
quilting, and machine embroidery.

I have a Facebook friend who's always posting "selfies". She went to the same school I did, but she's several years older than me, and I don't really remember her all that well. In her "selfies", she looks much, much younger than the 55-ish years old she actually is. I just thought "good for her", and didn't really think anything else about it. But one day something occurred to me. Her "selfies" were always taken at an odd, unnatural angle. Hmmm.

A couple of months ago, her husband posted a photo of her that he'd taken while she was asleep. Oh my. She had very dark circles under her eyes, all sorts of wrinkles, and looked her actual age ... if not older! :shock: She didn't even look like the same person. (I bet she was furious that he'd posted that picture!)

That's when I realized what she'd been doing in her "selfies". She was pointing her face in such a way that the lighting and/or camera flash erased those dark circles, and the majority of her wrinkles were "stretched out" so that they didn't show nearly as much. I wouldn't doubt that Photoshop was involved, too. I had to giggle just a little bit. Her husband tattled on her, either accidentally or on purpose! :D (I suspect the latter!) It's perfectly natural for people to want to look good in their photos, but hers were just a little TOO perfect, if you know what I mean! LOL!

Not long afterwards, she posted a photo of herself riding a roller coaster, claiming it was the one in a local amusement park. Something about the photo caught my eye. She was wearing a modern shoulder harness ... one of those big padded types that pulls down over your head ... and the roller coaster in her photo was a metal one. The roller coaster she CLAIMED to be riding is a vintage wooden one that has only a metal lap bar. Then I noticed that her head was too large for her body, the skin tones didn't match, and there were other signs of poor editing that made it a dead giveaway. Yep, she'd obviously Photoshopped that picture! She'd taken a photo of a modern roller coaster (one she'd probably found online somewhere), and had Photoshopped her head into it. ROFL! :D

She still posts "selfies" all the time, but I don't take them too seriously anymore. ;)

My comment Facebook is Wastebook, Get a Life was not meant with any malice, it is just a saying here in Australia, sometimes our sayings are lost in translation. I sincerely apologise if I offended anyone, but people who continually take photo's of themselves and tell you what they had for breakfast and what they do almost every minute of the day.

It is almost as bad as when you walk around or on public transport and see that almost everyone is hooked up to some gadget with earphones,(don't people have normal conversations anymore) I have an earphone attachement to my mobile phone (cell phone) I feel like I should use this but not attach it to anything so as I do not feel left out.

Many people have had serious accidents here when crossing roads etc as they are so obsessed with these gadgets they are not watching the traffic, one schoolgirl last year walked under a tram and was killed while texting.

So sorry if I upset anyone, now you can get back to your Facebook.

I, too, have plenty of gripes about FB behavior; but have learned almost all the ways to cut out the stuff I don't have any interest in. I do have one son that I blocked because he is such an "activist" (his words to me) about political stuff. I've told him, I know who I am going to vote for, that's enough for me--you're outta here. So now, when I want to know what's going on with him, I find him, and read what I want to and don't read what I don't want to.

And, I can't see any comparison to QB with FB. I guess that is because I just read what I want to on this forum, and skip past the others. I LOVE QB.

I have a niece that I had to stop her notifications. She travels a lot in her job and lets everyone know - I'm at LAX, I'm at so-n-so restaurant , etc. I read FB to get news of out of town relatives.