One of the most annoying hashtags I have ever had the
misfortune to encounter is the above. It’s tantamount
to the assumption that we are all being dishonest all of
the time unless we say we aren’t. The use of filters on
social media makes us all depressed, and when I say
filter I mean it
more widely than just on images.
My initial response to this was to want to use Lynx to
access FB and Twitter in order not to be swayed or
annoyed by people’s selfies and misleading images.
I thought at first that the way to remedy this would be
to have an app which simply allowed no filters, but the
obvious problems with this are that it only deals with
images, letting the user edit first and that it fails to
deal with other kinds of post. It also still lets the user
select images from their life and make it look shinier
than it really is.
Therefore, I suggest a standalone application which
accesses the camera at arbitrary times in order to
capture the everyday humdrum and tedium of our lives
and submit them. Speech to text would also enable us
to submit our quotidian inanities without an inanity
filter. Particularly dark images would not be submitted
in order to circumvent sticking something over the lens
or keeping the phone in your handbag, and tone of
voice would be detected for particularly monotonous
intonation patterns.
This way we could all see the vacuuming, washing up,
visits to the bathroom, traffic jams, supermarket
trollies and the like which make up our real lives, plus
boring conversations about whose turn it is to do the
laundry, bringing people tea too early or leaving things
to pile up beside the bed.
This would be good for everyone’s mental health
because we would all get to experience that most of us
are not in fact beautiful people leading a wonderfully
exciting life.
Funded by selling content to the CIA, naturally.