This has really confused me for ages now, but how do people find the time to stop, pose and take about one thousand photos of each other when they go out?

I don’t have anything against this ‘camera whoring’, I’m just really curious about it. It’s started with websites such as Myspace and Facebook I suppose? But I don’t really get it, because when I go out with my friends I don’t really get the chance to tell everyone to shut up and stop what they’re doing and play vogue before temporarily blinding them with a camera. I mean with the Flash, not by pounding them between the eyes with it.
The reason I don’t get this chance is because my friends are all vampires, so they don’t really show in photos, which means I’m always the only person visible and it makes me look like a loner. No, really, that’s not an excuse for not having friends! I swear!

But seriously, I just enjoy their company way too much to think about breaking out my camera phone and just taking pointless photos. Isn’t that pretty much the purpose of friends; to enjoy their company? Isn’t taking out a camera and disrupting the flow of friendliness like taking our your Gameboy and ignoring everyone?
If you were in a war and everyone else was getting on with killing each other, you wouldn’t do that. A photo of you having your arm blown off by a grenade would make a pretty cool photo opportunity, but wouldn’t it be better to survive?
Yeah, that wasn’t a very good example.

But I still find it amazing how people get so many pictures like that as it’s something I just can’t do. I wish I could, but I don’t see the point and I’m usually just having way too much fun to think about taking any pictures. I suppose taking photos of each other doing stupid things can be fun too, but how do you find the time and opportunity to do something like that?!
And don’t get me started about the people who just want to take a photo with you when you’ve just met them. They’re either doing it so they can put it on a website or do some vodoo shit.

Here’s a photo I took from a year ago at a party we went to. As you can tell, this room is empty, therefore the party was somewhere else. But two girls wrapped themselves in curtains and starting taking pictures of each other. Unlike them though, I was taking the photo because I genuinely through there was some lesbian action going on… which is also the reason why Vikesh is inspecting; because he too, is a lesbian.
Dissapointingly, they weren’t being lesbians but just taking pictures to post on Myspace or some site like that.

Who goes to a party to take pictures of people like that? In my defence, I took the picture because I thought they were lesbians, which I’m sure any guy would have… I hope. For the most part, I was having fun with my friends and meeting other people and having fun with them. Not lesbian fun, but just fun. So I don’t see the logic in this.

I’ve tried this sort of thing before, but it wasn’t as exciting as some people make it out to be;

Sure, in most of them I didn’t really get them to pose or anything stupid which would give me a reason to frame them, add them to an album or get the photos tattoed to the inside of my eye lids. I did a bit of a paparazzi here, but when I have asked my friends to pose, I usually get a “why?” which I can’t really answer. Either that or a “fuck off”, which is fair enough.

It doesn’t seem Neel’s too into this camera whoring thing either by the looks of it…

Whereas Vikesh is too into it and is a great example of why I’m quite scared of it.

But I’m still curious about it and lately I’ve tried to get into it. A lot of people find it fun and I don’t get nearly enough life out of my camera phone as I should. Those poor 2 Megapixels are going to waste! So recently, I decided to use it like everyone else is when I was in the mood. Here’s what I got: 

Yeah… food. EXCITING, NO?
The real reason behind it is because I NEVER get to have sushi as I NEVER go into Central London which is pretty much the only place that sells it. And I’m NEVER awake early enough to get a McDonalds bagel, let alone take a photo of one.
I really can’t do it for some reason… the thought of making my friends pose and taking a photo just never crosses my mind when we’re shopping, eating, talking, getting drunk, when we’re ALREADY drunk, when we’re dancing, bowling, on the bus, on the train, etc. And I’m sure my friends feel the same way since they don’t really do it either. Maybe we’re old fashioned. I really don’t like it when people just take pictures of me when I’m eating or whatever, which is one reason I won’t use my excellent singing and acting talent for fame. Because I don’t have either.
I believe cameras should only be used for home security, models and as I demonstrated above; stalking potential lesbians. But I will master this camera whoring one way or another; the photos section on the site is more empty than Oprah’s lunchbox. Even if it’s just for satire and parody of the people who do have friends so boring that they have to amuse themselves with cameras all day, I WILL get my friends and myself on camera for no reason. But mainly me, because I’m better looking than all of them put together.