You are what you shoot
Breakfast still-life by Pieter Claez
Instagramming Your Food May Signal Bigger Problem, Researcher Says.
Doing research on how Instagramming your food may signal a bigger problem is an even bigger problem.
And devoting space to an article about research on how Instagramming your food may signal a bigger problem is the biggest problem.
So there are people who feel compelled to share every detail of their daily lives as if the rest of the world gives a flying fig about their digestive systems. How does the media deal with this? By giving a flying fig. Try harder, people, you’ve got nothing.
That said, it is rude to delay meals by taking pictures of the food on the table. You can spend as much time as you want photographing your own food, but lay off our plate.
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May 10th, 2013 at 11:41
“So there are people who feel compelled to share every detail of their daily lives as if the rest of the world gives a flying fig about their digestive systems.”
^ thanks, somebody had to say this.
May 10th, 2013 at 13:17
I have well over 200 photos of food on my Facebook(I don’t have Instagram). I only upload photos of food that are interesting or appear expensive, thus, helping me propagate the myth that I am wealthy(Just a myth mind you). It’s working so far. I am afflicted with a much serious affliction than food problems – pretentiousness and an incurable urge to social climb. Hehehe.
But what about those people who constantly post photos of their kids with matching superlative comments about the virtues of their offspring?
May 10th, 2013 at 14:30
” obsessively documenting one’s meals could be a signal of a larger dieting problem.” — talaga???
araw araw pag napapadaan ako sa isang cupcake bakery sa glorietta lagi ako nakakakita ng taong kinukunan ng picture ang cupcake nila. ang naiisip ko sa kanila ganito:’Hey look I’m eating a 200 peso cupcake, I’m rich, I can afford to splurge on fancy cupcakes.Say I’m rich, please say I’m rich, pleeeasse! dammit I need acceptance….you can do this by clicking the like button and commenting on my post. I’ll even give you a headstart by liking my own post’
May 10th, 2013 at 16:08
The first photo I put up on Instagram was a small plate of kimchi. I don’t know why I haven’t posted another photo after that.
Then again, after seeing that photo of Madonna vacuuming her floor while wearing her Met Gala outfit, I think I should leave the posting-pictures-of-daily-minutiae to the professionals.
May 10th, 2013 at 19:09
Ditto @ UVDust. It’s unnecessary the first time. And then it becomes irritating.
May 11th, 2013 at 01:12
retweeting dibee’s comment with hashtag akoyatato… ay, pero hindi pala ko mahilig sa cupcakes. :)
May 11th, 2013 at 01:39
Just started Instagram recently because my hipster friends pressured me. I Instagram weird food/cheap food/food I recently discovered in Laguna so I can tell my friends that I’m so *clever* hahahaha.
But then I’m starting to watch NBC’s Hannibal, and the food styling in that show is so beautiful (even though most food might be people) that I’m so discouraged to post any food-related thing anywhere ever again.
@the chronicler of boredom yes I have so many friends posting those kinds of comments with pics of their kids – except for one who does the opposite and give props like beer cans and cigarettes to her children when she takes pictures of them, na may matching na hip-hop statements pa. It’s as annoying (and pretty illegal) but in a different way.
May 11th, 2013 at 11:54
My friend and I were chatting when we suddenly realized that people are actually committing discrimination when taking pictures of their food i.e, taking a picture of a Starbucks coffee but then nobody seems to bother to take a picture of a “cappucino” from a sapoe vending machine =)
May 11th, 2013 at 17:28
My gosh! I am absolutely glad FB, twitter and instagram whatsoever Never OWN me a single bit!
May 11th, 2013 at 22:52
@chronicler of boredom: Oh, jeez, Baby Pictures. There was a time when almost every single person on my Facebook feed was posting pictures about the wondrous wonderfulness of their little bitty darlings. That was enough to make me realize that maybe I was better off being single.
May 12th, 2013 at 03:38
I remember taking my sister to TWG and she was so concerned with the proper placement of the bloody golden teapots and tower of tea things to photograph I was this close to yelling “goddammit woman let me have my scones!”, but she’d probably just roll her eyes and continue taking pictures.
Please tell me nobody’s calling them “culinary pictorials”.
May 12th, 2013 at 11:10
People are finding more and more things to be annoyed at. So what if people take photos of their food or their kids or their toenails? To each his own. If you don’t like seeing these things, get the hell out of social networking.
May 25th, 2013 at 02:16
Just so you know, if you use Google Chrome as your browser, there’s an extension UnBaby.me that you can install so it replaces baby photos in your FB page with cats or bacon. :D
I rarely post on FB except to upload pics of my cat, or booze (because the Internet shall never run out of cats [or booze, or both]). Otherwise, it’s just for stalking.
I mostly hang out at Google +, to me it has a better community — I have a community mostly comprised of people I never personally met, yet they interact very regularly with each other, and I feel like I’ve known them face to face (heck, we’re close enough to the level of throwing dirty jokes at each other — I never imagined that could happen with total strangers without getting creepy). I check FB about 2-3 times a day, G+ I check every other hour LOL. Sorry — I’m a total introvert.