# People don't like my pics **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275 "2019-09-15T17:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/21 "2019-09-16T04:25:54Z")
Believe it or not, there are people who think others shouldn’t share personal things online, at all, as that is ‘attention-seeking’, which is inherently vain and evil. Those folks are insular wackadoos. They’re found on ANY social media using downvotes to tell others not to use the media socially. You know the ‘no selfie’ rule on Imgur? That’s a tiny sliver of this attitude. That person who irrationally doesn’t like when any gal of any age dresses up an goes all out w/ looking fine where others can see her? Extrapolate that out, you get those people. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/22 "2019-09-16T11:56:39Z")
Imgur is imgur. Selfies get down voted automatically (except for on selfie day). I’ve had pictures make the front page, getting dozens of comments and hundreds of up votes, yet there will also be ten or twelve down votes. Personally, I usually down vote glurgey posts. It’s imgur. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/23 "2019-09-16T11:59:55Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Social media is a complete waste of time, and the fact that mundane downvotes gets to you in some manner just confirms that very fact. It is a tragic loss. Just imagine what you could’ve accomplished with the seventeen precious years you’ve wasted in this social medium. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/24 "2019-09-16T12:24:09Z")
Message boards aren’t social media because reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/25 "2019-09-16T12:27:26Z")
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/26 "2019-09-16T12:29:23Z")
I’m in a similar position: I just joined Reddit this weekend to post to an architecture group and my posts don’t even show up for a day and by then they’ve drifted toward the bottom. I’m told that I need to post more to more groups and get more likes, but I’m not getting paid so I’m not about to go through the whole “get experience so I can get a job” rigamarole for free, and other than that specific group, between classic message boards and Facebook I get enough social media as it is. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/27 "2019-09-16T14:25:29Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It is a tragic loss. Just imagine what you could’ve accomplished with the seventeen precious years you’ve wasted in this social medium. Well as long as people don’t start sharing selfies and pictures of the fucking food they’re eating that nobody gives a shit about, I don’t consider it in the same vein. Now I know some people will occasionally post those things but you have to click a link. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/28 "2019-09-16T14:37:11Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I’m in a similar position: I just joined Reddit The even weirder thing about Reddit is when you post something that gets attention and then people “follow” you. I have six followers. No clue who they are or why they are following me. It’s kinda creepy. ---
**Author:** ![TheKingOfBread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@TheKingOfBread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheKingOfBread)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/29 "2019-09-16T15:03:40Z")
People downvote and hate on stuff for no reason at all. Sometimes I think it’s an accident, but other times I think it’s just angry people wanting to throw hate at stuff for no reason. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/30 "2019-09-16T16:32:15Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Message boards aren’t social media because reasons. Are too! 😛 Imgur is just a place where I can post pics for this MB or FB. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/31 "2019-09-16T20:05:58Z")
I just use imgur as a place to park images I share on Reddit or elsewhere. If I get upvotes on Reddit I know I’m doing something interesting to others. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/32 "2019-09-16T20:29:26Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > There are trolls all over the internet. I wouldn’t sweat downvotes by random strangers. Excellent advice. Reminds me of Neil Gaiman’s commencement address: > [@](#): > > \*And when things get tough, this is what you should do. > Make good art. > > I’m serious… > Husband runs off with a politician? > Make good art. > Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? > Make good art. > IRS on your trail? > Make good art. > Cat exploded? > Make good art. > \*_Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? \*\* > Make good art._ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/33 "2019-09-16T20:30:46Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > There are bots programmed to seek out out and downvote videos and such. “It’s not enough that I should succeed, others should fail.” ---
**Author:** ![Teddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Teddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teddie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/34 "2019-09-16T21:03:00Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > There are trolls all over the internet. I wouldn’t sweat downvotes by random strangers. Definitely this. People are dicks, people on the internet are even bigger dicks. You can’t get offended by what anyone thinks of you internet, they’re hiding behind a screen and feel totally emboldened by that. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275/35 "2019-09-17T11:30:46Z")
25% of it is toddlers pushing keys on daddy’s laptop. Ask me how I know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-dont-like-my-pics/840275.md?page=1)