It has been addressed forever that what we see on the internet is often not real. Photos of beautiful women are filtered and edited. Something I have noticed is that my peers are becoming just like the Instagram models. They carefully calculate every post they make and try to fit within a theme. I like themes, but I don’t think I live life within a theme. It feels as if they are not a regular person, but instead a product. Additionally, when I see photos of some people I know in real life on Instagram, they look unrecognizable, like a whole other face or person and it disturbs me. Many people are living life for the camera, for example I have noticed someone that never goes without makeup, she wears it to the gym, she wears it to the pool. On camera it looks perfect, but in person all the contour and concealer is aging her in real life. Make up can be fun, it doesn’t look like something who is doing it for fun or self expression. It looks like hiding and I don’t know what she’s hiding, she’s not what I would consider ugly and she seems like someone with clear skin. I feel bad for her, that she cannot be comfortable without the makeup and the heavy filters. When we look back at photos from the past I hope not all will be so altered, because then we would not looking back at reality and instead looking back at what we pretended to be.
