Survey Finds That Women Deliberately Post Unflattering Photos Of Their Friends To Facebook

A recently released survey reveals that one in four women deliberately post ugly and unflattering photos of their friends in bikini’s to social networking sites such as Facebook in an attempt to make themselves look better, reports MSN.

The survey conducted by MyMemory.com, a photo gift website, has found that after polling 1,500 women over the age of 18 a quarter of them have maliciously posted a photo of a friend after a falling out or in attempt to get back at them for doing the same thing. Two fifths of the women also admitted to posting a photo of a friend with no makeup and one fifth of them refused to take it down when asked to do so.

Most of the women admitted to de-tagging themselves in a photo if they thought that the picture wasn’t a good portrayal of what they really look like and even asked the poster to delete it. While people can remove their names, only the original poster can delete the photo.

According to The Telegraph, co-founder of MyMemory.com, Rebecca Huggler said:

“The etiquette of tagging friends in photographs on social networking sites is a tricky one to master, and with so many pitfalls, we wanted to look into women’s relationships with the photographs they upload to the sites in question.

“To see that so many women deliberately commit ‘photo sabotage’ and upload unflattering pictures of friends is somewhat surprising, particularly when you consider how many said they’d be mad if the same was done to them.

“Photo sabotage is never kind, but I think we’ve all seen pictures on social networking sites that we know the ‘victim’ won’t be happy with. It’s always a good idea to check with your friends before uploading; they’ll thank you, and it could prevent some serious fallout.”

Have you ever knowingly uploaded a photo of a friend that you knew they would find unflattering? Also, if a friend asked you to remove the photo from your Facebook profile would you do so?