#Microblog Monday 486: Send the Picture
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I’ve been loving Deez Links’s hate reads. I don’t agree with all of them, and most I don’t have a strong opinion about, but this one I am firmly in agreement about: If you are the person who takes the group picture (or even a picture of a solitary person), send the picture. Do not say, “I just took the best photo,” and then not send the photo. Send the freakin’ photo.
I could not breathe reading this line because I was laughing so hard: “It feels humiliating to ask my friend to send them to me, to cop to an unspoken vulnerability (“I’d like to look at myself in case I look hot”) the same way buying a toilet plunger at 2 a.m. at the bodega alludes to urgent, obvious disaster.”
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3 comments
HA! The 2 am bodega run for a plunger is an obvious disaster! Hilarious. I am always shameless about asking for the group photo, because WHY? Why do people hoard them? If it was momentous enough to warrant a group picture, then send it to the damn group. Grrr.
Hear, hear! I was always sharing my photos (even when that meant spending my own money to have a duplicate print made, back in the da…!) — it irked me when people never shared theirs!
I take a lot of pictures with a lot of different phones/cameras. I usually send the best photo, even if I took a million shots. People rarely.send them back to me.