Do You Have The "Camera Phone / Mirror" Pic In A Dating Website

Thinking of the infamous shots of the congressman, I got to thinking about this.

OK when you look at dating websites, gay or straight you often see people have the shot where they’re using a cell phone to take a picture of themselves in a mirror.

For fun I went online and went to couple of website and counted, on both sites, nearly half of the first five pages I looked at had a shot where someone is holding up a camera phone and taking their own picture.

Now to be fair, most of these are nice, they’re fully clothed or just without a shirt on but it does seem to be a fairly common pose on the Internet

So the question is do you (or did you ever) have a shot of yourself posted where you’re doing the camera phone, mirror thing?

I never did. I don’t have a cell phone so I just set my digital camera with a timer.

No, I do not have a picture of myself taken with a camera phone in a mirror. But I do have a picture of myself taken with a digital camera in front of a mirror.

It doesn’t appear on any web site though. I’ve never been on a dating site, they came into fashion after I’d gotten serious about my husband. :slight_smile:

Yeah I meant that :slight_smile:

The “arm’s length self portrait” is so common I would be surprised not to see one.

I think it looks ridiculous. You mean those people don’t have one friend who will take a picture? Or they can’t spring a couple bucks for a mini-tripod? Or they can’t take a normal picture and crop out the upraised arm?

One of my six pics on OKCupid is a cellphone by mirror pic, the one of me in a jacket and tie. My main pic is a webcam shot.

Frankly, those pictures make me think you don’t have a single friend who would be willing to hold a camera in your general direction and push the button.

Sometimes you don’t want your friends taking your picture … :stuck_out_tongue:

I have to admit I thought this too, but it seems like such a common pose now-a-days. I thought maybe it was becoming an “in thing” to do. You know like the sideways “peace sign” everyone makes in pictures. Or the young people do anyway.