Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Why the headless picture?

I came up with 4 reasons why somebody in those gay social networking sites would so often post headless pics or pics of something beside their face. And often the headless pic would be a shirtless pic of their torso.

1. The most common reason would probably be these guys are closeted or cheating on their spouse so they want to be discreet about posting their face picture in a gay social networking website. Specially so if the website is notorious as a hook up site. So they become a peeping Tom where they could see who is around but others can not see them.

2. Another possible reason is that they are not proud of their facial features. They could also belong to an ethnic group that would get dismissed from the get go when people see their ethnic faces. So instead, they post what they think is their best feature. Often that will be their body or sometimes their penis. They might think that this way, they can get people to be interested with them and not dismiss them as a potential mate or sex partner at first impression. Futile I say cause if they will be rejected base on their face, they will still be rejected whether they show it from the start or send it later.

3. Third possible reason is that they are just the kind of people who wants to have an upper hand at things. They do not want to play fair. So they want to be able to see first who they might be interested with, then send their face pictures to those people only. So they want to be able to weed "undesirables" first and not get themselves weeded out. They can see you but you can's see them. Again, a peeping Tom.

4. And last possible reason is that the profile is fake. So they post some headless picture they cropped of some random guy. They have no intention of meeting anybody so the random picture will suffice.


It could also be a combination of any of these reasons. Either way, I want nothing to do with them. I wish there would be a gay social networking site that people have to post a face pic. It is the way in public. People do not walk around with mask or a paper bag over their head. It is so frustration of have to deal with headless pictures online.

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