Including fliters in photos has become one of the new orders of the day that we mostly come across on a daily basis. Although it could be fun sometimes when you use some of the funny ones in your pictures to make you look silly or funny, I felt including a blurb on how pictures enhance our beauty kind of sounds ridiculous and makes the person look insecure or doesn't appreciate their natural beauty.
I hope you don't get me wrong; using a flitter, like I said earlier, is common now a days, but some people have become so addicted to it to the point where they don't see any photo of themselves snapped without a flitter as beautiful. To some of these people, it's only until they've applied fliter to such photos that they'll become much better at believing they're more beautiful and will now be more appealing and draw more compliments.
REASONS WHY I APPLY FLITER ON MY PHOTOS
I've used fliters on my photos on a few occasions,and most of those were just to get to joke around and let people laugh, because most times when I applied a fliter to my photos, it was usually the funny ones that made me look horrible and enhanced how handsome I was. I can even remember a particular app that came out at a time when most people used it.
The functions of that app include showing you a younger version of yourself, an older version of yourself, and a version of yourself of the opposite gender. I can remember almost everyone using that app to generate a younger version of themselves just to look more cute and appealing, but not me. Instead, I mostly use it to generate an old version of myself with gray hair and myself in the opposite gender form. It's always funny, and I can't help but laugh, just like everyone else who sees it does.
MY THOUGHT ON FLITER GENERALLY
The rate at which some people have become addicted to flitter is alarming, and I can bet that assuming it's possible to permanently paste such flitter on themselves in real life, I'm sure a lot of these people will do it. I've seen someone who has dark skin, much darker than I am, but when you look at most of the photos she uploaded online to her social media handle, believe me, you'll think she's fair in complexion.
I can't help but imagine how many guys are dying for her beauty and fair complexion, unknown to them that she's the opposite of what they're seeing online, and why I felt fliter isn't really an idea or should continue is because, since it has given most of its users the fantasy of what they'll look like if they're fair in complexion or the shape they desire, this can and has led many into bleaching their skin just to be as fair in complexion as they used to be in fliter photos.
It has also led to many indulging in surgery just so they can enlarge one of their body parts or another, just like the fliter made it possible for them. These are pretty bad and have led to many having skin cancer via the effects of bleaching and other medical conditions related to surgery of enlarging one body part or another.
MY EXPERIENCE WITH A EXCESSIVE FLITER USER
Several years ago, during my undergraduate days, I met a lady on Facebook with whom I became attracted, all thanks to her beautiful photos on her profile. We became close and started talking until we agreed that I'd pay her a visit to at least move our friendship to the next level after that meeting.
Prior to the day I would visit her, I'd tried everything within my capacity to look good, so I wouldn't look bad beside such a beautiful lady. But reality struck me on the deal day when I arrived at the shop where she worked and only got to realize she's the typical opposite of all she's displaying on Facebook. I felt played and disappointed, but then I played along for the sake of formality.
She's far from the beautiful person on her profile; even though she's the one, it's obvious she uses fliter to enhance her look, and that kind of fools me. Well, we talked and laughed until I bid her fair well, and that was the last time we ever met after that. I even reduced my communication with her because I was so disappointed. It's not that she's beautiful naturally, but her reality and social media personalities are opposite of each other, and that annoys me.
That's about all I have to say about my take on fliter usage and my experience with someone who uses it, and I write this article in response to the hive learners community features prompt.
NOTE: All photos are mine and were designed by me on canva.
Thanks for your time, stay bless.