Selfie pics banned in gym..............changerooms

[Grape Ape]

Good point, but I was referring to the obsession to make selfies everywhere

Not an American phenomenon either.

[The_Punisher]

so I hadn't worked out in a few weeks and returned to the gym this week and I see a new sign in the changeroom "the taking of photo's in changerooms is totally prohibited"

so I asked the staff did something happen to cause this

apparently some guy was taking a  "selfie" which included a naked guy in the background
now, ive never taken a selfie but im pretty sure the person taking the pic will clearly see if there is someone in the background

im thinking it was a homosexual trying to take pics of the naked guy, the gym I train @ wound be about 70 % homosexuals

anyone hear of this sort of occurrence before?

I'm sure he made a duck face as well

[Primemuscle]

I've been training for over 30 years... I would NEVER take a shower or get naked in a gym locker room, especially today with these selfie morons taking pics everywhere.

It's rude to take photos where other folks who might not want to be photographed could accidently be in the background. That being said, if I were in a locker room naked and someone took a selfie with me in their photo, I wouldn't give a shit. Locker rooms are meant for changing clothes. Being naked for a few seconds or even minutes for those who shower is no big deal. I prefer to shower at home where the shower is cleaned to my standards.

[DroppingPlates]

Not an American phenomenon either.

True, but they started this trend and facilitated it with 'social' media.

[Primemuscle]

True, but they started this trend and facilitated it with 'social' media.

Hmm, seems to me Asians have long been actively taking photos everywhere they go. Maybe they were the folks who started this trend.

I get that the issue here is that in a locker room someone is likely to be naked and get caught in a photo....no big deal really, but taking photos of strangers without their permission either dressed or naked, by accident or not, is wrong.

[Howard]

i see it about 50% of the time now.   Idiots.   Generation selfie all that way.

it used to be, if you wanted a pumped selfie, you scurried into the lockable stall, snapped on silent, and got out of there.  This shit with selfies in bath towels while dudes are next to you washing hands... that's a punchable offense.

The best way to end this locker room selfie is to photo bomb them with a hairy crack pose...not that I'd do it 

[Nails]

you can only imagine how many Terabytes of swinging dicks and gaping assholes that douche has that films Jason Genova as his daily grind

[Grape Ape]

True, but they started this trend and facilitated it with 'social' media.

Americans started the trend of taking pictures of themselves?

Check prime's post....

[Mr Anabolic]

It's rude to take photos where other folks who might not want to be photographed could accidently be in the background. That being said, if I were in a locker room naked and someone took a selfie with me in their photo, I wouldn't give a shit. Locker rooms are meant for changing clothes. Being naked for a few seconds or even minutes for those who shower is no big deal. I prefer to shower at home where the shower is cleaned to my standards.

Stay on guard when you drop the soap. 

I also prefer my clean shower/bathroom to some scummy gym shower.

[DroppingPlates]

Americans started the trend of taking pictures of themselves?

Check prime's post....

Asians are known of taking pictures of tourist places, but did they started this selfie trend? I'm not so sure of that.

[Grape Ape]

Asians are known of taking pictures of tourist places, but did they started this selfie trend? I'm not so sure of that.

I think you just wanted to take a dig at the U.S

[DroppingPlates]

I think you just wanted to take a dig at the U.S

True LOL, but after some 'wikivestigation' (for what's worth it), I found out that the first self-portrait was made by an American,

Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer in photography, produced a daguerreotype of himself in 1839 which is also one of the first photographs of a person.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie

[Grape Ape]

True LOL, but after some 'wikivestigation' (for what's worth it), I found out that the first self-portrait was made by an American,

Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer in photography, produced a daguerreotype of himself in 1839 which is also one of the first photographs of a person.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie

His selfie stick was a tree

[DroppingPlates]

His selfie stick was a tree

and his pic had a resolution of less than 10x10..

[Primemuscle]

Stay on guard when you drop the soap. 

I also prefer my clean shower/bathroom to some scummy gym shower.

Probably not so much of a problem at the gym I go to. The showers are individual not communal. Of course leaving the shower curtain open could be construed as an invite.