Saturday 12.10am. City of London
These ladies were out on a night out, supposedly to have a good time but spent almost the entire duration of their evening doing back to back photo shoots, endlessly reviewing and repeating, searching for the ultimate shot to post. I did a post recently on ‘selfie girls’ (https://babycakesromero.com/myldn-1156/) and this was one of the most relentless examples I have seen. Inbetween they were glued to their phones, their digital existence dominating their real life experience to such an unnatural degree it left no space for anything else. They should have been having fun but they didn’t look like they were. In fact, they barely interacted beyond their discussions over the documentation of a night that didn’t really exist in any real sense.
Ironically they didn’t seem to care what anyone in the room thought of them (who actually barely noticed them because they also were on their phones) but they would undoubtedly care how they would be received and perceived by their online followers, many of whom they wouldn’t know and would never meet…Digi 1 Reality 0