Just as an aside, the subject of the photos that people choose to post to Internet forums having come up, has anyone ever noticed that many of these photos on "social networking" sites like Facebook and on "dating sites" are taken using Webcams?
So *why* is this? In this day and age, when a digital camera is built into almost every phone, it's certainly not because it's the only way they can get a digital photo *to* post. Here's my theory -- the people who post photos of themselves taken *by* themselves using a Webcam do this BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO FRIENDS. If you had friends or lovers, surely one of them would have taken a flattering photo of you at some point, right? Surely one of these photos taken by friends and lovers would have managed to catch you in a photogenic mood, and smiling an honest smile, captured unawares, not as if you were "posing" for the camera. It is my experience that such photos of me and everyone I know are the best photos of ourselves. Who would *not* choose one of these photos to "represent themselves" to the world online? People who don't have any friends, that's who. Their only *option* for taking a photo of them- selves is to do it themselves, sitting alone in front of their computer. Ponder this next time you cruise a dating site or Facebook. Do you want to go out with or "friend" the nerd who has no real-life friends to even take a *photo* of him, or do you want to go out with or "friend" the person someone else clicked a photo of when they were together, having fun?
