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I post lots of pictures on here and never really pay attention to what’s in “the background”. I totally look at the background of other people’s pictures, but never really pay attention to what is happening in my own. Maybe because I know what is going on in my house, but I don’t know what is happening in other people’s houses?
I think the “background” tells way more than the “posed” part of the picture. That blogger says they are neat? Or that they only shop for clothes at Walmart because it’s dumb to buy expensive clothes? Or say they never buy their kids plastic toys? Or talk about how McDonald’s is poison and that they’d never feed it to their kids? Ha. The background of the picture tells the story! I’m not dumb, I know they don’t sell North Face at Walmart. Nor can you get Happy Meal toys at Whole Foods.
As bloggers we only post the things we want to share online. Do I post every single thing that happens at my house? Heck no. I would never. But I also I don’t pretend to be someone I am not, so I am not worried about people seeing what’s in the background of my pictures. I mean, I don’t proclaim to be some amazing housekeeper or say that I only feed my kids organic foods because umm, that’s just not true.
But I also need to make sure there isn’t anything I wouldn’t want, umm, creepy people to see either. I mean, I would never intentionally post any potty training pictures(*), bathtub pictures(*), “big boy underw*ar” pictures(*), my address, etc,. on here, so I need to be sure nothing insane like this is going on in the background of my pictures. I certainly don’t want to share anything unintentionally, you know what I mean?
So do you ever look in the background of people’s pictures? Ever see anything interesting? I can’t say I’ve learned anything earth shattering, if you pay attention, I’m sure you’ll see something interesting. But if you see something that shouldn’t be shared (a phone number, an address, etc.) make sure to let that blogger know! No one wants “too much” out there. Or do they?
(*) These posts on other people’s blogs really freak me out. Sure they are cute and everything, but you gotta be careful what you post because not everyone on the internet looks at a picture and is all, oh, that’s cute. Some people are creepy and can turn an innocent picture into something not to innocent with a quick internet search!