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I share pictures on Facebook. Why? With more than 2 billion users globally, it’s the most used social media platform on the planet. Love it or hate it (I side with the latter) most people you know are using it. I try to use that to my advantage, with both positive and negative results.
I share pictures of what I’m doing and myself. I share them with ‘off-grid’ groups, tractor groups, Toyota pages, and anywhere interested people will see them. Mostly the response has been awesome! People offer all kinds of advice, positivity, and interest in the same things as me. However, the response to pictures of my face has been mixed.
The internet is packed full of selfies. Men, women, kids, everyone posts pictures of themselves, and we like to look at them. Why? We have a psychological response when we see a face. We know it, and I think the algorithms know it too.
The Male Gaze
The male gaze it tricky to explain but - it’s about how women are often depicted in media, movies, books, etc. to pertain to straight guys. Think of Meghan Fox in the first Transformers movie. She was pretty much the main character, but she was reduced to a belly button, really. The male gaze isn’t something that men did or do wrong. It’s something that we all - men and women, play into.
What does that have to do with anything?
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