selfies

Aka I don't like your implication that I would deliberately set out to offend anyone on Gransnet.

If that was supposed to be offensive Jane then I'm sorry to tell you it fell short of the mark Peace and goodwill

I did post a barefaced photo of me on fb and donated. I was not brave to post but I saw it as fairly harmless and so happy to participate.

Sadly as thatbags has said there is more pressure nowadays for young women to feel that make up is an essential daily requirement. Perhaps seeing their friends 'barefaced' will help some girls to see it is a perfectly normal and good way to be.

Have selfies been around for long? Guessing I would have said I first heard of selfies a year ago. I have found the whole episode interesting as it's such a reflection of how we live now. How we choose to live now.

Well it must be working as its caused 6 pages of comment on GN! Presumably this is money which would not otherwise have been donated just like Sport Relief etc.

I didn't do it because I have a monthly DD to CR which is more tax efficient but I joined in the fun by commenting that I wouldn't inflict my face on everyone and that caused more comment and so it went on and I said I had donated already and that cause more comment................. All good for the cause.

Yes merlot my friend forced her dog to pose minus makeup which he was happy to do

I'm sure a lot of people, like me, donated without putting a barefaced selfie on facebook so it's been a successful campaign and has raised a lot of money that has taken CRUK by surprise.

It can only be good but I do agree with some of the sentiments in the articles.

If people weren't interested in what other people think, as well as news, Radio 4 would have gone off the air long ago, and many publications would be out of print too!
Please don't include me in your generalisations Aka!

I think it's called having an interest in current affairs, this reading newspapers malarky.

I' think this issue is less about facts than about ideas. I am aware that the news media often gets very low marks, so to speak, on accuracy of reporting.

No question of needing, aka. I expressed my views yesterday on here before I'd read or heard anyone else's in the media. So, for me, it's just a matter of information about others' views when they become available.

I looked at the Telegraph and the Daily Mail too.

There's a radio programme called "What the Papers say", isn't there? That suggests that quite a few people are interested in other people's views. Plus the fact that people read newspapers and listen to TV news programmes, etc etc.

Thanks for the links B. Interesting to read differing views.

There's a saying that says 'every picture tells a story'. Well, it depends upon what one sees. Perhaps some see selfies as a narcissistic, armchair led and lazy way of promoting fund raising. It can also be fun.

So what lies behind the bare face. I have a friend. A young mother with two teenage children, a husband with inoperable spinal cancer. She is an upbeat, funny and outgoing young woman, who involves herself in raising funds for cancer research. Just does it. Doesn't bang on about it. She posted a selfie on fb. I don't have a problem with that. The picture itself isn't brave, but how she lives her life is.

I agree with you Aka, so that's why it's so important for the media to get their facts right or things get out of hand.
Sorry - getting away from the original thread here.

I might need to read newspapers or watch the news to get an idea of the ongoing crisis in Syria, or the facts about the budget (in fact where else would I get this information?) but I do not need anyone else's opinion to make up my mind on little issues like this and neither do most of GNetters

I think the media lead many people's opinions.

I felt quite brave putting my bare face on FB as I look awful (in my own opinion) with out any makeup.

As I have already said, I wear very little but I feel better with it. In no way am I sad or a victim - I just feel better with a very small amount of make-up.

Thanks for the link bags.
Good analysis from Sali Hughes.

Besides, I think such articles reflect opinions in the rest of society. I don't think newspapers lead our thinking; I think they reflect it.

I like to know other people's opinion's, aka, especially if they happen to write well too. I deliberately posted links to two different outlooks on the selfie phenomenon.

Who cares what these people say? It's just their opinion and they are professional journalists not gurus.

We're grown woman and can make up our own minds whether to post selfies or just donate. I'm sick of being told what to do or not to do. As it happens I wouldn't want to post a selfie with or without make up, but FFS what's all the fuss about?

Live and let live.

I'm another who doesn't like the make up free selfie thing on Facebook, I'm uncomfortable with the idea that it is brave to be seen barefaced. It does seem to me that the expected response is to tell the poster how 'stunning' she looks anyway. I've been nominated but ignored it.

From the Independent...

Sali Hughes in the Guardian says...

I've just posted CRUK's photo from earlier on the thought for the day thread.

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