Monday, March 12, 2012

Law of photos.

This! i am writing because, my mind is just filled to its brim with Graduate course work and it is in desperate need of some dilutive. So here goes the vetti (for the meaning refer here. Quite a collection) analysis of the recently annoying yet interesting trend I've been observing off-late. PHOTOS!! PICS!!! Yes, the ones which are abundantly discharged in Facebook with innumerable album titles as equivalent to the number of friends one has. My postulates for not being interested in making a public statement of how do i look like are as follows -

  • Law of piracy - However the Facebook may build brickwalled privacy protection policies, just like every other social networking sites, it too will have brilliant geeky hackers and spammers, who will make us quit or forget Facebook someday.
  • Law of appa - When i collect and treasure my daughter's pictures even on her primary school ID cards, how can i be at peace on knowing that some random guy "liked" her picture on her Facebook wall.
  • Law of equivalent exchange - If i put a profile picture and some 40+ people liked it, it indirectly means that i shall be entitled to like the pictures of those 40+ people however silly and mundane those pics might be, in order to sustain the number of likes for every rubbish post i update in future.
  • Law of photoshop - If at all, i want to put a picture, i would have to crop, cut, contrast, brighten - do all the possible photoshop deeds to make it an outstanding profile picture, so that i'll be poured with likes and comments the instant i upload. This picture of mine would have only a 0.25 probability of having a resemblance of me (under predefined conditions such as tilted angle, properly slept non-black circle eyed face, etc) .
  • Law of race - After the act of picture uploading, life becomes a race to keep up the rating for one self by keeping up the trend ( Such as - black & white photos, childhood photos, with a best friend photo, holiday trip photos, horizon BG photos and of many such likes). 

With all these delicacies added up to the fact that "if there occurs a picture perfect moment, my mind shall be more than glad to savor it better than any high resolution SLR camera, with the moment's purest essence, etched in my memory forever", I hope that i persist with my current perspective always in the future.

PS: Im just another hypocrite who justifies my laziness with abundant and random reasoning. So Free!! :P
Simple truth is - I just sense a feel of violation, when one's looks and likes are made public. After all wouldn't we like some privacy for ourselves?! :)

4 comments:

  1. Excellent read. I enjoyed every bit of your justification and laughed at the reality which was so aptly revealed in the last :) Keep up the good work :)

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  2. Except for the first one where there is a possibility of your account being hacked and pics misused, I find every other reason not properly justified.
    Law of Appa ?? Do you talk only to your Appa ? I thought you have got friends too .. friends who like you .. nope?? .. ohh ok ur Appa doesn't like ur friends liking your pics ?? there will be some random guys I understand but why do you care.. i bet even your appa won't have the time to see how many random guys have liked your pic .. unless you are calling all your friends as random guys .. that gives an easy count you know ..

    Law of equivalent exchange ?? -- Believe me its not necessary ..

    Law of Photoshop -- Dude .. do you really think that whoever uploads pics on facebook does all that you have described ?? I bet not even 10% of the people do it ..

    And finally .. haha .. vetti reply for a vetti post :-P :-P .. so just countering your random reasoning :-P .. no offense .. btw your appa might be worried that a random guy has replied to your post ..

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  3. "if there occurs a picture perfect moment, my mind shall be more than glad to savor it better than any high resolution SLR camera, with the moment's purest essence, etched in my memory forever"

    I absolutely adore that line and can't agree more... It in fact made me recollect this line from a recent book I read

    "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." - Julian Barnes, Sense of an Ending

    Yeah I tend to get a bit overboard on the philosophy... but still its an amazing line!

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