Taking Pics Like a "Facebook Mom"

And the Taylor/Travis Timeline

A mom (who shall remain nameless) reached out to us with an observation. She shared that her teen was posting blurry photos on social media. She wondered why. Why at a time when resolution is at its very highest and pixels are at their pixeliest would this be the case? We asked for an example. She showed us a screen grab of her teen’s post. It was the corner of a room with a friend smiling in the background, someone else’s elbow in the shot and it was indeed blurry. I immediately texted thirteen-old-Emma to see if she could give us some insight on this very cloudy situation.

Why Do Teens Take Blurry, Unposed Photos?

Emma W. (13) i don’t think there’s necessarily a reason i think it’s more just one of those things we do but also not all of them are blurry they just aren’t usually as posed like standing on a line smiling with teeth with your arms around your friends like a Facebook mom.

LIKE-A-FACEBOOK-MOM! SLAM OF A LIFETIME!

Like-a-Facebook-Mom is taking me right back to our second ever episode of How To Be Less Old (formerly OMFG) with writer Shelby Fero. At 20-years-old, Shelby was already writing on a tv show and had amassed over 100,000 twitter followers, which was pretty amazing in 2014. Shelby was a VERY COOL YOUTH. She breezed into the studio wearing jean shorts, a t-shirt that was pulled out of the dirty clothes and a grey hoodie. She had beautiful red hair that was carelessly tossed into a side pony with some blue faded dye in the back.

Somehow the topic of birth order came up and I said I was an oldest. Hearing that Shelby immediately fired a question my way. A question that, if I’m really being honest with myself, I’m still unpacking to this day. She asked “Do you wear outfits?” Please take a listen…