I was just reading how Kelly Clarkson is In the middle of a new celebrity scandal for having her picture airbrushed from self magazine - For my UK readers it is an American publication, but that is nothing to what people have been talking about recently concerning Airbrushing Facebook photos, so where is this all going and why now?
I know we are all fairly proud of the way we look, but airbrushing facebook photos? Don't you think that is taking things a bit too far. I guess the reality is that we are all Z list celebs these days and so even if you are at the bottom of the list, we all do care about what we look like and how we are perceived by others, even if it is Facebook profile pictures.
I suppose its not as bad as Second Life where you create a persona from scratch, however I can see Facebook heading in that direction - where does reality finish and fantasy begin? The lines it seems are becoming increasingly blurred. We all want to be someone else, like our heroes, idols and the celebrities gracing the front of glossy magazines. Is it really a bad thing to airbrush a Facebook picture. Well we have a lot to live up to don't we?
Facebook is evolving as we speak. Even it is wanting to lose inefficiencies by producing a lighter version. I suppose it is simply a reflection of the wider economic climate and anything that makes us leaner and meaner is going to be done, quite simply because we can. That's surely not a bad thing, is it?
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