# Do You Have The "Camera Phone / Mirror" Pic In A Dating Website **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642 "2011-06-16T01:19:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/1 "2011-06-16T01:19:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/2 "2011-06-16T01:34:34Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/3 "2011-06-16T01:40:30Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > 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. Yeah I meant that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/4 "2011-06-16T01:47:22Z")
The “arm’s length self portrait” is so common I would be surprised **not** to see one. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/5 "2011-06-16T01:56:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/6 "2011-06-16T02:02:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/7 "2011-06-16T02:07:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/8 "2011-06-16T02:29:10Z")
Sometimes you don’t want your friends taking your picture … 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-camera-phone-mirror-pic-in-a-dating-website/585642/9 "2011-06-16T02:34:41Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > 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? 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.