Reasons for not showing face when posting pics.

[SteelWeaver]

OK, I'm getting my show pics ready to post, but I'm wondering whether I should care about leaving my face in or not. The truth is, I don't really care about showing my face, but should I?? I'm not using any gear, and I'm unlikely to ever reach the higher echelons of bodybuilding, and I understand why people with those reasons would blank out their faces, but are there any reasons that I just haven't thought of for why one wouldn't show one's face?

The women who don't show their faces - besides the above reasons, is it just a privacy thing for you?

 

[Vortexx]

This intrigued me as well.....

Reasons I could think of:

- stalking
- "peer pressure" to stop sculpting a good body and get shapeless bag like your fellow co-workers
- wacked jaws / nose due to going overboard with test / GH ?
- ??
- ???

Some guys blank their face out as well, but it seems mainly a female thing....

 

[magdelana]

I did not start with a problem of not showing my face, but as i started to post more and say rather private things about myself i decided i did not want to show my face ever on the board. For me it is not the AAS use but just that i have said a lot of personal sorts of things on the boards.

 

[Gladiola]

I agree with Mag regarding having discussed personal issues.

I kinda showed my face (profile) & blanked it out in others. One shot I blanked it simply cuz it looked bad! I hadn't bothered to touch up my makeup.

My other reason is that my sister didn't want to post her face & our faces are very similar.

 

[VooDoo Lady]

Anyone with half a brain can figure out where to find us, with or without showing face.

Sooooo true. Right Gladi?

 

[Arioch]

If your employer would be embarassed by your openly discussing some of the subjects here, it gives them a certain plausible deniability.

I personally plan on stalking Steel during my next vacation.

 

[magdelana]

Anyone with half a brain can figure out where to find us, with or without showing face.

That frightens me. What can they know where i live if i never say?


And i also would enjoy stalking Steelweaver!

 

[Arioch]

And i also would enjoy stalking Steelweaver!

I called her first.

So there.

 

[Sassy69]

I've shown my face a few times , but always pulled the pix down after awhile. One thing you have to remember is that once you post somethign on the internet its in the public domain. There are sick people who will copy your pic down and either keep it to jerk off to or to pass it around to others. Someone might decide to do a PhotoShop on it and alter it so you have an enormous dick or some shit and then post it somewhere. There are just waaaay too many people w/ too much free time. You may also get a lot of pervs PM ing or emailing you too just because you actually opened up that much online.

Personally I think you are just better off not showing everyone everythign including your tonsils. The interest we have on this board is with physical development of the body. Unless you want to show progress pix in the development of your cheeks following weeks of face exercises, a face isn't really "required" to get the point across.

 

[FitFossil]

My reason is like Sassy said. People can take the face, photoshop it, and it could end up in places you don't want it. It's not like someone couldn't do the same thing taking a picture of me on the street, but why make it easier? It's not the Elite crowd I'm particularly worried about, but all those folks who DON'T spend all their spare time in the weight room.

 

[magdelana]

then add to that the ability to discover their IP address, etc... No one is hard to find.

I show my ingorance of computers here, but what is a IP address? And how could another member on elite use it to find my house?

 

[magdelana]

then add to that the ability to discover their IP address, etc... No one is hard to find.

I show my ingorance of computers here, but what is a IP address? And how could another member on elite use it to find my house?

 

[MS]

I'm just shy

And I live in a small town in a small country.

 

[TheProject]

I show my ingorance of computers here, but what is a IP address? And how could another member on elite use it to find my house?

An IP address is basically the number that is attached to your computer when you connect to the internet. Your internet service provider assigns this address to you each time you connect.

As far as I know, the only people that can see IP's on here are mods. However, if you've used your personal e-mail account (the one assigned to you by your service provider) to correspond with someone that will contain some information that could be traced back to you.

 

[big4life]

I think that it's mainly a privacy issue. The stalker problem could be an issue if you give out too much info, but otherwise it's just a way that ensures that someone doesn't post your face on a site that you would rather not have it posted.

 

[strong island]

I am very very ugly!!! lol

 

[SteelWeaver]

Thank you, everyone. I'm glad I put this question up - there are a lot of reasons here that I simply wouldn't have thought of. And a lot of hilarious replies!

Shy? You? Yeah, right, lol.
Butt-f*** ugly - LMAO - well, I don't have that problem.
"Anyone with half a brain can figure out where to find us" - spatts, you're scary, but I take comfort in the knowledge that most people, even with whole brains, don't use more than a fraction of them, anyway, ha ha!

Arioch: "I personally plan on stalking Steel during my next vacation."

You're coming to Japan? Oh pleasepleaseplease!! I could arrange it so you "find out" my address, and you can stalk me down to my dungeon gym then offer nonchalant advice while I squat and dead.

Lana: "And i also would enjoy stalking Steelweaver!"

Lana honey, that's great, but ever since I saw those glutes I'VE been stalking YOU! Heh heh! j/k

Funny thing about stalking, though - it's BIG in Japan. Really awful crimes like murder and so on are quite rare, statistically speaking, but perversions like touching up women on the trains and stalking are an everyday occurance for a huge percentage of women. Maybe the train culture just makes it easier ...

OK, so, no face.

 

[SteelWeaver]

"Someone might decide to do a PhotoShop on it and alter it so you have an enormous dick or some shit and then post it somewhere."

OMG, Sassy! ROTFLMAO!!!

........ but how do you know I don't already have one? .....

(That's a JOKE, folks, heh heh)

 

[SteelWeaver]

Well, frankly, I don't care who knows where I am or whatever - like you said before, it's hardly likely that someone's gonna travel all the way here to stalk me, and if they did, I'd kick them in the nuts, ha ha. I don't think it would be very hard to find a specific foreigner in this city.

It's the stuff about people taking my pics and giving me a big dick that bugs me, lol. I'm vain, and besides that, I don't want some freaking pervert wanking over my pic.

 

[b fold the truth]

I post pics of me with my face in it. I'm not some great looking guy and most anyone who wanted to know my real name and where I lived....could easily find it anyway.

I am also not a female...I can see how many females would not want their faces all over the net...lots of strange guys out there.

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