Food pics on social media
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Depends.. are they pretty or well photographed food items? Okay.. probably manageable.
Also, am I hungry when I see them? If they make me hungry when I stare at them, that tends to piss me off a little bit. I don't like images of food that make me long for the food they are portraying.
Mostly, I just don't want to see images of food in which effort was not put into making it presentable. Or hideous overuse of flash on food. It makes the food look terrible.
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I am passionate about my answer NO I do not gross.
I had to stop viewing photos of runny eggs images on my wall. I want to literally throw up every time I saw it.1 -
Photographing food is an art which not even the smartest phone has mastered.1
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Avocado_Angel wrote: »Personally I find it a little bit pretentious, especially if they make a habit of it. Depends on who's posting it and for what reasons, tbh nobody really wants to see what other people are eating, who cares ?
I'm okay with it if it's a new recipe or something they tested out and are proud of their result *or* they at least have the decency to post a recipe so that the post is somewhat useful.1 -
I love to see food posts when people are travelling. It is fun to see different restaurants and different food items from all over the world.
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I like it. Just scrape that white goo off your meats, I think you know who you are.0
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Not every day but sometimes it is fun to see some food pictures.
I almost never take pictures of food and post them. I find it annoying to do that.1 -
I believe that it's essential when posting a recipe, to view how it's suppose to look!0
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I don't mind seeing food that someone has prepared at home & is special in some way (pie with lattice crust, perfectly wrapped spring rolls), but I admit to giving side-eye to the people who are repeat offenders with their breakfast bowl instagram style shots.
Also don't mind people who share photos of "special" dinners out or unique experiences when they're trying something very new to them or food that isn't available in their area.
What I don't like is shots of half-eaten food, boring homestyle/diner food everyone has seen a billion times, or lots of pictures of meat. I do eat meat. But I don't like seeing photos of it even when they are professionally taken for a restaurant or something...much less Uncle Herb's steak at Longhorn...1 -
Food pictures are one of the stupider things on social media, but I get it. Food is at the center of all our social gatherings; big family Christmas dinners for example, but this goes back much much farther, to our caveman evolution--food sharing is acceptance into your circle. Food sharing is community. You only shared food with who you really cared about; your family, your clan, your tribe, your village, your church. Food sharing is species survival, and we evolved our food sharing like all our other evolutionary behaviors over 200,000 years. So sharing food on social media is as close as we can get in our dehumanized and distant social interactions of today-a modern anthropological nod to our ancestors parading the kill, then squatting around the fire and allowing others to share in the reward.3
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More often than not, no I do not like it at all.0
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Avocado_Angel wrote: »Personally I find it a little bit pretentious, especially if they make a habit of it. Depends on who's posting it and for what reasons, tbh nobody really wants to see what other people are eating, who cares ?
This pretty much sums up how I feel about it.0 -
grammagrape wrote: »Food pictures are one of the stupider things on social media, but I get it. Food is at the center of all our social gatherings; big family Christmas dinners for example, but this goes back much much farther, to our caveman evolution--food sharing is acceptance into your circle. Food sharing is community. You only shared food with who you really cared about; your family, your clan, your tribe, your village, your church. Food sharing is species survival, and we evolved our food sharing like all our other evolutionary behaviors over 200,000 years. So sharing food on social media is as close as we can get in our dehumanized and distant social interactions of today-a modern anthropological nod to our ancestors parading the kill, then squatting around the fire and allowing others to share in the reward.
I agree with a lot of this, but...
...it isn't sharing food. It's showing and not sharing. Kind of the opposite of sharing, I think.0 -
If it's your own creation, +1 to you.
I can see it as an artistic creation with the amount of time added for visual presentation.1 -
I don't really care, unless it's pretentious "hey, I'm at so &so and I'm eating $600 worth of caviar and lobster."
Yeah, now flash your diamonds and talk about your Bentley too!!3 -
Ramen? Do people still eat that? *Turns nose up*0
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