Say NO to Facebook pictures!

You know what I'm talking about: a picture of a person has a part, or even the whole, of another person in it. Usually you get a picture like this from taking a group shot and splicing yourself out of it. Unfortunately, you get stuck with all these left-overs from the other people, like someone's arm on your shoulder or a group of people all around you. Facebook pictures tend to be awkward, zoomed in and completely devoid of any sense of style.

I suppose it's OK to put these on Facebook, as college students don't have enough time to stand in front of a wall and have their roomy take a half-way decent photo of them. But when these start cropping up other places, like dating websites, you've gotta draw the line. I haven't seen one on a serious website yet, but expect it. I figure graduation photos will take a step in this direction as some sophomoric goober decides that it's easier to crop than to take more pictures.

The most hillarious (and also quite pathetic) example of this was an image that was a print-screen of a person's friends list: there, two people, one after the other, used almost the same photo as their profile photos. It was a photo of the two as a couple. Almost the same, except that in one picture the guy's face was blacked out with pixel-wide black, in the other the girl's face was blacked out in the same fashion. So, they're too lazy to take a picture, but not lazy enough to fire up Paint and do some editing. Hillarious, but really sad, too.