picture paints a thousand lies

Too Much Picture Editing!

@wiLLmaH (8801)

Singapore, Singapore

December 20, 2015 11:03pm CST

I was informed by my friend that he send me a copy of a book through his friend that visits Singapore. So I asked him what does his friend looks like. He gave me a link of a facebook account. So when husband and I reached the place, I kept on looking around the area and keeping an eye for people with blue shirts. One lady came to us and greeted us. She is the girl we are looking for. She handed us the book and bid goodbye. Her picture and herself in reality looks totally different. What's up with the people using too much picture editing for their photos? Now! Picture Paints a Thousand ‘Lies'! Tsk! Have you known someome that looks totally different in person and on their public posted photos in social media sites?

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@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

22 Dec 15

I never photoshop my pictures . If i don't like it , i won't post it but not photoshop it .

I would rather be not pretty in my profile picture than they see me in real life as pretty , rather than the other way around .

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@delyaj30 (613)

• Quezon City, Philippines

22 Dec 15

korak!

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

Gosh! If you could only see some of the photos in facebook using camera360 app. haha.. my husband says, when he spotted one, "they might as well to erase the whole face". Hehe.

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@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

22 Dec 15

@wiLLmaH Funny how some people can be so imaginative of a much more beautiful face . They are not true themselves and they don't know that they are being laughed at by those who truly know how they look in person .

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@delyaj30 (613)

• Quezon City, Philippines

22 Dec 15

this is how modern technologies can make, free total make over,

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

No need make ups. Haha!

@kaka135 (14916)

• Malaysia

22 Dec 15

Well, I will not understand that. Moreover, I thought the picture we show in Facebook should be the real us, as we are showing the picture to our friends in Facebook. Perhaps I am wrong or I am too old fashioned.

Glad that she managed to recognize you.

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@kaka135 (14916)

• Malaysia

22 Dec 15

@wiLLmaH I do not have many young friends in Facebook or real life, so I have no idea about this. I have seen my husband's cousin who is still a high school student like to post funny or ugly faces of herself in profile picture. I wonder if it's the trend of the youngsters now.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

I am astounded that she just approached me and a biq questioning tone when I am saying her name. Maybe getting the face make-over before posting in the social media sites now is a must for youngsters.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

@kaka135 Actually even at the range of my age, some people need to edit it first before posting it. haha! Someone always approaching me just to hit the "like" button on her photos. As if there is a price for most like pictures in facebook haha!

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@jaboUK (64361)

• United Kingdom

21 Dec 15

I've only met one person that I only knew by her photo and she was just the same. And also every bit as nice as I expected.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

That is good. Maybe one of few people who do not do an editing at all. Winner of confidence.

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@ridingbet (66857)

• Philippines

21 Dec 15

what you see in my pictures is the real me. I do not mind taken in my ugliest face, whether I frown, smile or laugh, that is me.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

Good for you @ridingbet. I hope youths will learn that from you.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

@Yar_Joey you are friends with @ridingbet?

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@Yar_Joey (3271)

• Philippines

22 Dec 15

@wiLLmaH but you should see her on FB. She does not look like she is in 50's.

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@Yar_Joey (3271)

• Philippines

22 Dec 15

what you see is what you get, to me my dear friend.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

That is good! Gosh! I cannot see the point of editing their photos?

@salonga (27775)

• Philippines

22 Dec 15

So be honest my friend lol, you mean she is pretty in photo but not in person?

I would rather be the other way around.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

She is way beautiful in photo than in person.

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@Shellyann36 (11385)

• United States

22 Dec 15

I have found that true for lots of people. Most people seem to post old pictures of them when they were younger. When I was in my 20's and signed up on a few dating sites I was caught off guard once or twice when I met the person in the flesh.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

Is it? So they end up older? How do you react on that?

@TiarasOceanView (70035)

• United States

21 Dec 15

They can certainly be appealling but not true to life Wilmah.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

You bet. I hope people will stop over-editing the photos. Actually now, they are editing even the body figures.

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@jstory07 (134457)

• Roseburg, Oregon

21 Dec 15

That was nice you got the book.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

21 Dec 15

Yep! Added to a long list of book I need to finish :)

@LadyDuck (458006)

• Switzerland

21 Dec 15

I agree, when you meet people in person you cannot even recognize them.

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

21 Dec 15

You bet. That is why I am flattered when someone told me that "You are prettier in person than in your facebook pictures".

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@amnabas (13742)

• Karachi, Pakistan

21 Dec 15

Now adays these editings changes a persons appearence but in your case they should share the real pic .

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

21 Dec 15

I went trough the fb profile pictures were just all the same.

@DeborahDiane (40054)

• Laguna Woods, California

22 Dec 15

Most people I know look like their pictures, but I have seen people who used pictures that were about 20 years old!

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@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

22 Dec 15

Maybe this is just for youths today. They are editing photos on their facebook to garner likes and comments.