Instagram culture

Conservatory · 01-06-2018 08:28PM #1

I was heading down George street today after work to meet the wife and kids to take them to a comic book shop. (Trying to encourage reading and all that)
On the left in some ice cream parlour place a girl was holding a big ice cream over a menu and taking a photo of it. She was just some yang wan doing her Instagram or Facebook thing where she lets everyone know where she is or how great her life is.
Does she feel pressure to look like she is having a great life?

Is she just pretending to be her favorite celebrity but doesn’t realize her celebrity is paid to reinforce these products and was told to go here by her manager who secured an endorsement deal and the celebrity was probably only there for enough time to take the Instagram picture and didn’t even look at the menu?

Does she know that by following Kim k on social media she is the product? Kim k goes to Pizza Hut to advertise Pizza Hut then you go to Pizza Hut for free and advertise Pizza Hut.

Her FaceTiming or snapchatting this place is just advertising for the company why isn’t she looking to be paid?

Is it about time we copped on that twitter and all these other platforms are either just people making money advertising to you the follower or the followers pretending to be influencers but not getting paid?

Or is it all just a bit of harmless fun where teenage girls forced to grow up too fast play pretend that they are modern day princesses?

Is it the new reality tv?

Donald Trump · 01-06-2018 08:32PM

Conservatory wrote: »

I was heading down George street today after work to meet the wife and kids

Ah c'mere. A likely story. It's 2018 bud. You don't have to hide it anymore

Signore Fancy Pants · 01-06-2018 08:34PM

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super_furry · 01-06-2018 08:35PM

Those gelato places are to 2018 what donut shops were to 2017.

0lddog · 01-06-2018 08:40PM

Uganda shows the way forward

http://www.konbini.com/en/lifestyle/uganda-just-passed-a-bill-to-tax-social-media-users-to-curb-gossip/

Cupcake_Crisis · 01-06-2018 09:00PM

Yeah Instagram is the worst and I definitely didn’t just post a new selfie like 30 seconds ago...

ZzubZzub · 01-06-2018 09:03PM

You shoulda slapped the ice cream out of her hand. How dare she.

This is what modern Ireland has become.

jaxxx · 01-06-2018 09:07PM

It makes me so happy that I'm not one of these types who cannot put their phone down, who is obsessed with social media, etc

Kimbot · 01-06-2018 09:09PM

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

Yeah Instagram is the worst and I definitely didn’t just post a new selfie like 30 seconds ago...

It was 28 and a half seconds ago

Conservatory · 01-06-2018 09:09PM

Chewbacca wrote: »

You do realise that posting on this site makes you the product aaaaaaand theres plenty of advertising.

At the moment boards ad is trying to sell me a mortgage. I don’t need one.

Cupcake_Crisis · 01-06-2018 09:10PM

Kimbot wrote: »

It was 28 and a half seconds ago

Awh, now I feel special!

OldMrBrennan83 · 01-06-2018 09:12PM

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retro:electro · 01-06-2018 09:19PM

You sound angry op. Are you mad that you didn’t get an ice cream cone

Ronaldinho · 01-06-2018 09:20PM

It's all about the dopamine

Conservatory · 01-06-2018 09:22PM

retro:electro wrote: »

You sound angry op. Are you mad that you didn’t get an ice cream cone

Got a double cheeseburger for walking around food.

AllForIt · 02-06-2018 04:31AM

In the beginning Instagram used to about nice pictures of nice things. Then it became about the ppl who were taking the photos. I can't believe the number of ppl who use it to show off their gym trained bodies whether hetro men or gay men. Endless pics of themselves working out in the gym, posting their latest gym stats, whether that's how much they can lift or their latest quad circumference etc. It's really sad. I never knew there was so many self absorbed narcissists in this world. What vacuous lives some ppl lead.

Osmosis Jones · 02-06-2018 04:44AM

Conservatory wrote: »

I was heading down George street today after work to meet the wife and kids to take them to a comic book shop. (Trying to encourage reading and all that)
On the left in some ice cream parlour place a girl was holding a big ice cream over a menu and taking a photo of it. She was just some yang wan doing her Instagram or Facebook thing where she lets everyone know where she is or how great her life is.
Does she feel pressure to look like she is having a great life?

Is she just pretending to be her favorite celebrity but doesn’t realize her celebrity is paid to reinforce these products and was told to go here by her manager who secured an endorsement deal and the celebrity was probably only there for enough time to take the Instagram picture and didn’t even look at the menu?

Does she know that by following Kim k on social media she is the product? Kim k goes to Pizza Hut to advertise Pizza Hut then you go to Pizza Hut for free and advertise Pizza Hut.

Her FaceTiming or snapchatting this place is just advertising for the company why isn’t she looking to be paid?

Is it about time we copped on that twitter and all these other platforms are either just people making money advertising to you the follower or the followers pretending to be influencers but not getting paid?

Or is it all just a bit of harmless fun where teenage girls forced to grow up too fast play pretend that they are modern day princesses?

Is it the new reality tv?

There is an awful lot of projection here, you literally saw her take a picture, nothing more, you know nothing about her.

Osmosis Jones · 02-06-2018 04:46AM

Also I think it needs to be stressed that people post pictures on their own social media accounts that they want to post, they're not posting pictures that they think you'll like.

To call them narcissists for not posting things on their own account that interest you is a bit ironic.

Tell me how · 02-06-2018 04:50AM

Conservatory wrote:

I was heading down George street today after work to meet the wife and kids to take them to a comic book shop. (Trying to encourage reading and all that) On the left in some ice cream parlour place a girl was holding a big ice cream over a menu and taking a photo of it. She was just some yang wan doing her Instagram or Facebook thing where she lets everyone know where she is or how great her life is. Does she feel pressure to look like she is having a great life?

Why did you tell us the information in the first bolded part if you don't understand the question in the second bolded part?

You want us to think of you or perceive you in a particular way. So too does the young lady.

We all think we are unique and we prove this by behaving in a stereotypical way.

Conservatory · 02-06-2018 11:40AM

Tell me how wrote: »

Why did you tell us the information in the first bolded part if you don't understand the question in the second bolded part?

You want us to think of you or perceive you in a particular way. So too does the young lady.

We all think we are unique and we prove this by behaving in a stereotypical way.

That’s a good point. I suppose I thought you might think I was some kind of oddball heading into town to look into ice cream parlour windows. I remembered not to mention any shop names or brand names though. Apart from Pizza Hut butI think they are gone

FionnK86 · 02-06-2018 11:43AM

She sounds like fun...

Conservatory · 02-06-2018 02:20PM

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Also I think it needs to be stressed that people post pictures on their own social media accounts that they want to post, they're not posting pictures that they think you'll like.

To call them narcissists for not posting things on their own account that interest you is a bit ironic.

So you are saying they are teenage girls forced to grow up too fast playing at being a celebrity and don’t care if they actually are or not?

Do they not check how many likes they get?

Osmosis Jones · 02-06-2018 02:33PM

Conservatory wrote: »

So you are saying they are teenage girls forced to grow up too fast playing at being a celebrity and don’t care if they actually are or not?

Do they not check how many likes they get?

ehh

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

There is an awful lot of projection here,

alroley · 02-06-2018 02:42PM

Who cares? Live your life the way you want to.

Conservatory · 02-06-2018 02:44PM

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

ehh

I don’t take pictures of anything apart from work I’m billing clients for or my family the odd time. I never put it on social media to force people who hardly know me to pretend they like it so I don’t get offended.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 02-06-2018 02:52PM

Conservatory wrote: »

I don’t take pictures of anything apart from work I’m billing clients for or my family the odd time. I never put it on social media to force people who hardly know me to pretend they like it so I don’t get offended.

Who is forcing anyone?

I don’t do Instagram but each to their own. In modern life pretty good digital cameras are available in phones, and phones are universal. Inevitably this leads to more photos.

Not too many years ago I was invited to a dinner party where the hilight was a family trip the the amazon the hosts had taken a few years prior. It’s was all projected. That was forced. Two hours of jungle photos. Good too, btw. But long.

People used to bring in their holiday snaps to work too. Confining that nonsense to a digital environment I don't have to partake in is a win.

Conservatory · 02-06-2018 05:04PM

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Who is forcing anyone?

I don’t do Instagram but each to their own. In modern life pretty good digital cameras are available in phones, and phones are universal. Inevitably this leads to more photos.

Not too many years ago I was invited to a dinner party where the hilight was a family trip the the amazon the hosts had taken a few years prior. It’s was all projected. That was forced. Two hours of jungle photos. Good too, btw. But long.

People used to bring in their holiday snaps to work too. Confining that nonsense to a digital environment I don't have to partake in is a win.

Do you think it’s like a trade off

I’ll look at your pictures of your new back garden if you look at my pictures of my abs after I trained my abs on ab day in my gym.

Sure I’m just waiting to see if anybody likes my back garden pictures so I may as well.

Osmosis Jones · 02-06-2018 06:28PM

So you call other people narcissists, while acting like everything they post on their own social media accounts should adhere to what you find interesting.

Mutant z · 02-06-2018 06:44PM

I have as much interest in instagram as I do with Facebook and Twitter ie none.

Conservatory · 02-06-2018 06:47PM

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

So you call other people narcissists, while acting like everything they post on their own social media accounts should adhere to what you find interesting.

None of it is interesting. It’s just ads.

AllForIt · 02-06-2018 07:42PM

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Also I think it needs to be stressed that people post pictures on their own social media accounts that they want to post, they're not posting pictures that they think you'll like.

To call them narcissists for not posting things on their own account that interest you is a bit ironic.

As a matter of fact that is not correct and I'll tell you why. So how did I come across these instagram profiles? Well become some are linking their instagram profiles on dating apps. Some dating apps have specific sections to put your instagram profile or others just write the link into their "about me" section. Dating apps don't usaully provide for stickin up more than one pic, certainly that's all you get on Grindr. So yes, they are posting pictures of themselves in the hope that I would like them. That's how I became aware of all these narcissistic Instagram profiles in the the first place because I don't use Instagram !

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