Photogenic much? That could be a problem.

I first remember being complimented as being photogenic whilst in my 20s; at least, I assumed that it was a compliment. To me it meant that I looked great in photos. However, quite recently I heard the term again, but the tone of the commenter implied that it wasn’t a compliment. What??!! Is it that the camera has made me look better than I really do, without it? Which had me thinking…
Could looking good in pictures be one of the problems that some people on CS have with the profile pics of others?

Most recently, there was a post in the forums about a concern over the person that one finally meets in the flesh, matching with his/her profile pics. For men, this may be more of a problem than for women. We women are more often changing things up with our appearance (e.g. hair - length, colour, texture; face - features, eyebrows, lashes, lips; etc), so it’s understandable that we may not ‘match’ with our pics if they haven’t been updated. (I’m currently a buttery/soft blonde, on my way to platinum). However, men seldom make those kinds of changes, sometimes having the same look for decades.

But, with photoshopping (i.e. lighting, filtering, etc) being the latest way of enhancing one’s appearance to make it “photogenic”, it’s easy for some of us to get carried away. Hence convincing someone you eventually meet for a date that you and your profile pics are the same person, might be a challenge. And that’s not just with women, but also with men who ‘seem’ to have lied about their hair, height, weight and physicality (based on the pics on display) or, who didn’t lie but just haven’t updated their pics to reflect their current image.

Perhaps, just as it automatically updates our age, the CS system should be equipped with the relevant modern software to update pics as well? I know that that might cause a riot, especially since some persons age less gracefully than others. Still, even if you’re not naturally photogenic, what about what you’re like on the INSIDE? Shouldn’t that be just as, if not more, important? Yes, it’s easy to get turned on/off by the visual, but being photogenic is mainly about what one looks like, not what one thinks like, lives like or loves like. And that’s really where the problem arises….don’t you think?