Is this considered showing off?
So my 86 year old roommate was asking me how I wore my hair when I was younger and so I pulled out my online google photo albums and showed her a few pictures of when I was young and different hair styles and colors I had. Here's how the conversation went after that....
Her-"why do you have all that?"
Me-"huh? Have all what?"
Her-"all those pictures of yourself and your family and life, and all that?"
Me-"I like photos-I always have. I enjoy taking selfies and seeing how I have changed over the years and I like capturing photos of things in my life so I can look back on them"
Her-"well it's nothing but showing off and I don't see why you have to have all those pictures of yourself and your life!"
I was very hurt. Yeah, I was attractive when I was young and I am old now and have lost my looks and people all the time ask me what I looked like when I was young and things that happened that I have pictures of.
It's not "showing off " to me, it's reliving memories.
What do you think? Do you believe that having a lot of online photos is showing off? Even if it is photos of yourself, a person might have a bad self image of themselves and take lots of pictures to see how they can look better or to just pick themselves apart. Social media is full of people showing pictures of themselves- that's not what I do, but I do have lots of pictures of myself simply to see how I have changed over the years. I like to look at old photos and say "I need a new haircut- my hair looked good in that picture, maybe I will cut it like that again." Or something like that. I have health problems now that causes facial and body swelling and it's nice to have pictures showing that I wasn't always puffy and ugly.
But I NEVER show these pictures on social media. It's on my private albums to look at when I'm nostalgic.
So how is having photos of yourself, friends and life considered showing off?
Her-"why do you have all that?"
Me-"huh? Have all what?"
Her-"all those pictures of yourself and your family and life, and all that?"
Me-"I like photos-I always have. I enjoy taking selfies and seeing how I have changed over the years and I like capturing photos of things in my life so I can look back on them"
Her-"well it's nothing but showing off and I don't see why you have to have all those pictures of yourself and your life!"
I was very hurt. Yeah, I was attractive when I was young and I am old now and have lost my looks and people all the time ask me what I looked like when I was young and things that happened that I have pictures of.
It's not "showing off " to me, it's reliving memories.
What do you think? Do you believe that having a lot of online photos is showing off? Even if it is photos of yourself, a person might have a bad self image of themselves and take lots of pictures to see how they can look better or to just pick themselves apart. Social media is full of people showing pictures of themselves- that's not what I do, but I do have lots of pictures of myself simply to see how I have changed over the years. I like to look at old photos and say "I need a new haircut- my hair looked good in that picture, maybe I will cut it like that again." Or something like that. I have health problems now that causes facial and body swelling and it's nice to have pictures showing that I wasn't always puffy and ugly.
But I NEVER show these pictures on social media. It's on my private albums to look at when I'm nostalgic.
So how is having photos of yourself, friends and life considered showing off?
