Now, I'm not
knocking or judging people who like to share photos of everything they ingest.
Posting food photos is your legal right as a citizen of Facebook, seeing as the
Declaration of Internetdependence grants us the right to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of indefinite "likes." So if you want to show everyone what
you're eating, go right ahead. But I have to admit that I don't quite
understand the motivation. When we share photos of our meals, is it in memorium
of the food? Is it due to the desire for a communal meal with all of our
friends and followers? Is it to make others jealous and/or hungry? Is it to
offer people ideas for what they, too, can consume? I have posted a picture of
a bottle of mead, and it was because I know a lot of people who have never
heard of mead and I want to spread the word (or image) so they can experience
its incredible majestic deliciousness themselves. I haven't grasped the overall
reasons behind this practice, though.
Also, maybe taking
pictures of what we're eating is sort of like a Level 2 Selfie. A selfie is
"This is my face," while a food pic is "...And this is what goes
INTO my face!" It's like a selfie, but more in depth.
