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Brigantium said:
Or the 'youth' are ten years older and therefore no longer 'youth'? :cool:
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Well Facebook isn't popular among the youth of the current day. The capabilities Facebook offers have been transferred to social media websites/applications that specialize in a particular capability: Instagram for photo sharing and direct messaging, Twitter for social engagement and direct messaging, Reddit for discussions and so on.
 
Reddit can be quite good. I got the impression that wasn't considered cool either, though, in the sense of social media being all about LOOK AT ME AND LOOK AT WHAT I'M DOING NOW AND HOW CUTE DO I LOOK WITH THESE FAKE BUNNY EARS
 
Instagram is meant to be a fun and silly place that is taken way too seriously - both by some users of Instagram, and by people observing Instagram. It's a pretty cool place for artists, because it's a platform that easily lends itself for aesthetic pursuits.
 
Instagram has been nearly unbearable lately with all of its bot users. Back in the day when I joined, it was a totally different place.
 
The Flash said:
The algorithm is designed to give you content similar to those you've been searching for. :p
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Yup, so if I click on one picture of tits one time, the next time the whole feed is gonna be full of tits. And there is no shortage of bare skin on Instagram. Some women wear ridiculously small clothes and make their living off of it, it's basically prostitution. I'm not against prostitution but it makes you think when the target audience is largely 12-year-olds. It can be bad influence for kids. Okay, I sounded like an upset parent there.
 
The Flash said:
The algorithm is designed to give you content similar to those you've been searching for. :p
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The ads generated on here have been trippy of late and hopefully are no reflection of my Googling activity. This morning I got an advert for some Muslim solidarity organisation, featuring a woman with a headscarf and a surgical mask, followed a few minutes later by a game advert showing the scantily chainmail-clad arse of a different woman.
 
Saapanael said:
Yup, so if I click on one picture of tits one time, the next time the whole feed is gonna be full of tits. And there is no shortage of bare skin on Instagram. Some women wear ridiculously small clothes and make their living off of it, it's basically prostitution. I'm not against prostitution but it makes you think when the target audience is largely 12-year-olds. It can be bad influence for kids. Okay, I sounded like an upset parent there.
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I know that's what you were alluding to, it's a thing that's brought up quite frequently. Attractive people will attract attention, there's no getting away from that. So I think it depends on the type of content you're putting out there - the tastefulness of it. Nude photography and erotic photography are legit art forms - it's dubious to equate them to pornography or prostitution imo. Some of those girls are legit models doing modelling work, some are exhibitionists looking to attract attention. The target audience definitely isn't 12-year-olds though, it's mostly sexually deprived men, especially men living in sexually repressed cultures. There's no shortage of Indian and Arab men putting peach emojis, doing marriage offers and saying "show bobs and vagene" under those photos.
 
The vast majority of almost-nude photography I've come across on IG are mobile phone images, definitely not professional photography. There are many professional pages on Instagram, no doubt, but these rarely indulge in the "cover my nipple but show everything around it" kind of photography, imo. To be honest, trying to wear as little clothing as possible (to the extreme) is more perverse than being fully naked, isn't it?
 
Saapanael said:
The vast majority of almost-nude photography I've come across on IG are mobile phone images, definitely not professional photography. There are many professional pages on Instagram, no doubt, but these rarely indulge in the "cover my nipple but show everything around it" kind of photography, imo. To be honest, trying to wear as little clothing as possible (to the extreme) is more perverse than being fully naked, isn't it?
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I agree with you with regard to the first part of your post. There are actually pretty easy tells when it comes to this: An OnlyFans account, a private Snapchat, a Patreon account, mostly mobile phone images. Those are the ones who are closer to selling sex rather than displaying sexuality for aesthetic purposes - I think it's closer to stripping than prostitution, to be specific.

As for the little clothing angle, that's a bit of a slippery slope. I wouldn't say it's "perverse", it attaches an ethical connotation to it which I don't agree with. Some choices of dress are sleazy. There's also another angle, a lot of the pictures involving "little clothing" are advertisements for said little clothing.
 
You can be an Instagram model without a $3000 camera. I don't consider it to be perverse, I roll my eyes and unfollow the thirst traps and move on. It doesn't bother me what others do with their life.

If I had a kid I'd teach them not to judge a person by what they wear or the duckface they model, but on the content of their character.
 
Saapanael said:
The vast majority of almost-nude photography I've come across on IG are mobile phone images, definitely not professional photography. There are many professional pages on Instagram, no doubt, but these rarely indulge in the "cover my nipple but show everything around it" kind of photography, imo. To be honest, trying to wear as little clothing as possible (to the extreme) is more perverse than being fully naked, isn't it?
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I never understood how nudity can be seen as perverse. It is literally the most natural thing in the world. What's perverse is how we came to the point of considering it perverse.
 
We live in a world of debauchery and Instagram reflects that. I didn't even want to delve so deep into this, so think whatever you want and chill out. :p
 
Perun said:
I never understood how nudity can be seen as perverse. It is literally the most natural thing in the world. What's perverse is how we came to the point of considering it perverse.
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Yep, this is the reason why I always make it a point to dissassociate my takes on this issue from ethics. A lot of the vitriol thrown at depictions of human sexuality stem from the "ethical virtue" of modesty in dress and the association of lack thereof with the "ethical virtue" of chastity.

Saapanael said:
We live in a world of debauchery and Instagram reflects that. I didn't even want to delve so deep into this, so think whatever you want and chill out. :p
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The problem is that you seem to be taking it at face value that unmodest dress and debauchery (in the sense you're alluding to) are necessarily bad things and extrapolating from that position. Didn't realize you upheld Christian ethics to this extent.
 
If you have worked out a lot and want to show off your attractive body and make some money, go for it. I still think it's bad influence, though. Hell, I think there's far too many sex scenes in movies and TV shows as well, but most people don't have a problem with this. Maybe it's just me, but I stand by it.
 
Saapanael said:
If you have worked out a lot and want to show off your attractive body and make some money, go for it. I still think it's bad influence, though. Hell, I think there's far too many sex scenes in movies and TV shows as well, but most people don't have a problem with this. Maybe it's just me, but I stand by it.
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I agree with you. And this is coming from a 19 year old...
 
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