funkyfr3sh_
Apr 16th, 2006, 09:59 PM
Any guilty of this!?! Saw an interesting article in the star.
Come on let's admit it! I have done it... :| BUT i have never posted more than 2-3 pictures of myself at one time. Now that I am older (20) don't do it really...this was more of a teen thing!
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144878609688&call_pageid=991479973472&col=991929131147
Krystal Woodley, 18, from Rexdale, has her picture posted all over the Internet. PureRave, VampireFreaks, FaceTheJury and MySpace are just a few of the sites where her face can be found. In fact, she says she will often go to random sites and put up her pictures just for fun.
Teens, especially girls, have become self-portrait obsessed. Some of them have 100 or more pictures of themselves stored on cameras, cellphones and computers ready to be sent into the world with the click of a button.
"I have, like, 50 different folders (on her computer) with pictures of me," says Krystal, on an outing with friends at the Eaton Centre. "When you get bored, you dress up, look good and take your picture."
"Krystal has different folders for different shirts," says her friend Margaret Dyjasek, also 18 and from Rexdale.
Never without her trusty camera, Margaret tells me that taking a picture of herself is an instant pick-me-up. Before I know it, she and her two friends take turns demonstrating the art of the digital self-portrait on the spot. With arms outstretched, each holds the camera up high (the most flattering angle) and strikes a similar seductive pose with head cocked to the side.
"I pout and suck in my cheeks because I have fat cheeks," Margaret says, even though her face is shaped just fine.
Posting such pictures online is all about self-marketing, whether to make friends or attract admirers. To them, it feels like risk-free exhibitionism.
Yet leaving assorted photos of yourself online — whether provocative or innocent — could eventually draw unwanted attention.
"All the creeps will be, like, `You're hot. Show me your tits,'" says Krystal, shaking her head and laughing. "Usually I'll respond with something funny or tell them to go away."
Although Krystal says she is always covered in her portraits, others are not so demure.
"I heard that some girl on MySpace had a picture of herself masturbating with a lollipop," Margaret says.
"I don't want to see that. Go to Playboy not MySpace," Krystal says. "It's disgusting."
So-called "rate-me" websites such as FaceTheJury.com or WouldYouHitThis.com, where visitors rate the "hotness" of random guys and girls, brings out the vanity in some teens.
"People take, like, 100 shots and choose the one with the least flaws," says Margaret, who admits to having PhotoShopped her pictures.
For many, image is everything and your identity is captured in photos, from your clothes right down to the pose.
"There's one (pose) where you put your hand over your mouth, like you're shocked," says Samantha Burns, 15, hanging out with her friend Domenica Aldoino Vinci, also 15, in Christie Pits Park, near their homes.
"There's another one where you bite your finger," Domenica says.
"I have a picture like that. It's meant to be kind of naughty. If we want to look good" — she means sexy — "we won't smile."
None of this interests John Gjata, 17, from Bloor St. West, who is keener on using his pictures as a visual journal to document feelings and events.
"I keep daily logs, snapshots of a particular moment I can look at on a later day or even years later and remember what happened or how I'm feeling," he says using Instant Messenger.
Out of the hundreds of self-portraits he takes, John keeps only a few, which he posts on his blog or on MSN for his small circle of friends.
"Sometimes, I'll have pictures of things I buy or even haircuts," he says.
John messages me some of his pics, one of him sporting a new hat and another of him looking fatigued. The caption reads, "Tired." He even has a Picasso-esque "blue period."
Because digital is so cheap, teens can experiment with the art of shooting and developing pictures at little cost.
"Photoshop is, like, my life," John says. "Sometimes I'll spend a whole 40 minutes to produce something decent."
Come on let's admit it! I have done it... :| BUT i have never posted more than 2-3 pictures of myself at one time. Now that I am older (20) don't do it really...this was more of a teen thing!
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144878609688&call_pageid=991479973472&col=991929131147
Krystal Woodley, 18, from Rexdale, has her picture posted all over the Internet. PureRave, VampireFreaks, FaceTheJury and MySpace are just a few of the sites where her face can be found. In fact, she says she will often go to random sites and put up her pictures just for fun.
Teens, especially girls, have become self-portrait obsessed. Some of them have 100 or more pictures of themselves stored on cameras, cellphones and computers ready to be sent into the world with the click of a button.
"I have, like, 50 different folders (on her computer) with pictures of me," says Krystal, on an outing with friends at the Eaton Centre. "When you get bored, you dress up, look good and take your picture."
"Krystal has different folders for different shirts," says her friend Margaret Dyjasek, also 18 and from Rexdale.
Never without her trusty camera, Margaret tells me that taking a picture of herself is an instant pick-me-up. Before I know it, she and her two friends take turns demonstrating the art of the digital self-portrait on the spot. With arms outstretched, each holds the camera up high (the most flattering angle) and strikes a similar seductive pose with head cocked to the side.
"I pout and suck in my cheeks because I have fat cheeks," Margaret says, even though her face is shaped just fine.
Posting such pictures online is all about self-marketing, whether to make friends or attract admirers. To them, it feels like risk-free exhibitionism.
Yet leaving assorted photos of yourself online — whether provocative or innocent — could eventually draw unwanted attention.
"All the creeps will be, like, `You're hot. Show me your tits,'" says Krystal, shaking her head and laughing. "Usually I'll respond with something funny or tell them to go away."
Although Krystal says she is always covered in her portraits, others are not so demure.
"I heard that some girl on MySpace had a picture of herself masturbating with a lollipop," Margaret says.
"I don't want to see that. Go to Playboy not MySpace," Krystal says. "It's disgusting."
So-called "rate-me" websites such as FaceTheJury.com or WouldYouHitThis.com, where visitors rate the "hotness" of random guys and girls, brings out the vanity in some teens.
"People take, like, 100 shots and choose the one with the least flaws," says Margaret, who admits to having PhotoShopped her pictures.
For many, image is everything and your identity is captured in photos, from your clothes right down to the pose.
"There's one (pose) where you put your hand over your mouth, like you're shocked," says Samantha Burns, 15, hanging out with her friend Domenica Aldoino Vinci, also 15, in Christie Pits Park, near their homes.
"There's another one where you bite your finger," Domenica says.
"I have a picture like that. It's meant to be kind of naughty. If we want to look good" — she means sexy — "we won't smile."
None of this interests John Gjata, 17, from Bloor St. West, who is keener on using his pictures as a visual journal to document feelings and events.
"I keep daily logs, snapshots of a particular moment I can look at on a later day or even years later and remember what happened or how I'm feeling," he says using Instant Messenger.
Out of the hundreds of self-portraits he takes, John keeps only a few, which he posts on his blog or on MSN for his small circle of friends.
"Sometimes, I'll have pictures of things I buy or even haircuts," he says.
John messages me some of his pics, one of him sporting a new hat and another of him looking fatigued. The caption reads, "Tired." He even has a Picasso-esque "blue period."
Because digital is so cheap, teens can experiment with the art of shooting and developing pictures at little cost.
"Photoshop is, like, my life," John says. "Sometimes I'll spend a whole 40 minutes to produce something decent."