Missing Teenagers, Filtered Photos

[barry1010]

My local Facebook groups reports missing teens and young adults, often it is the police asking for sightings.

It would be impossible to identify any of them from the heavily photoshopped and filtered photos obviously lifted from their social media sites.

Apart from appealing parents to ensure they have recent realistic photos of their children my question is: do these youngsters really believe these filtered photos fool anyone in to believing they really look like that?

I now realise I am officially elderly

[jno]

a photoshopped photo is probably better than nothing at all. It's hard to imagine parents saying to their 18 year olds "Come on, I need a good photo of you in case you're abducted by aliens". The ones least likely to assent may also the ones most likely to get into difficulties.

[barry1010]

Don't they have school photos these days? Surely parents take photos of their children at all ages?

[davebro]

It's different age - kids get photographed to bits these days. Presumably they will have a permanent pictorial record of their lives.

When I was young the cameras we could afford weren't really up to the job & developing and printing seemed an expensive luxury. Very few photos of me exist.

[Prudie]

There is an extremely powerful Dove advert at the moment which highlights exactly what you're saying Barry. It shows a teenage girl going in reverse from her online photo to her actual self minus filters and make-up.
I'm on a tablet at moment and find links a pain but just Google Dove advert 2022.

[Peter Pedant]

christ poor girl - you mean at the end of the ad she looks like.....me?

[Smowball]

I’ve got a friend, an adult female, who is quite obsessed with posting selfies on FB, and honestly to look at the photos she posts you wouldn’t even know it was the same woman! The filters, make-up etc etc, so I know exactly what you mean about teenagers doing the same.

[barry1010]

My friend's daughter is the same, Smow - and she believes all the 'beautiful', 'gorgeous' comments her friends leave.
The probably say the say about her as they post as she does when commenting on their heavily filtered photos.

It can't be good for their mental health

[Prudie]

This is the ad I meant.

[youngmafbog]

I sort of see what jno is saying, however so many of the photoshopped pictures are nothing like and that could cause problems in itself.

You would think one or two wold exist that are natural that could be used but maybe not. I know my girls never liked pictures unless they were set right. And one of them rarely puts make-up on let alone bothers to photoshop as lucky for her she doesnt need to.

[Smowball]

I genuinely do not understand why girls/women post such edited photos!! Surely they can see that they look nothing like they do in real life so what’s the point?? Of course we all like to look great in photos, and I look ok ish in real life, normal, but for some reason I photograph really badly lol, or at least I think I do, and so I very very rarely put a photo of me online, or even a photo with me in it. But I’d never edit it to make me look something I’m not.

[burlyshirley]

That girl in the Dove ad looks lovely au naturale. I'm with you Smo, I've hated having my photo taken for years and very rarely have it taken now, although at a friend's birthday bash recently, I didn't look too bad in the group photo taken lol ! I would never photoshop like the youngsters do now, and when I was young there was no need to.

[Barsel]

Young girls these days all look the same to me.
Long dark hair, lots of eye make up and thick pouty lips.
Oh, and very white teeth.

[Smowball]

Barsel - oh the spider eyelashes make me laugh my head off!