January 31, 2009
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Posting Bikini Shots
I was talking to a friend and she mentioned she could never post a photo of herself online in a bikini.
She said, “I am of the theory that the moment you remove some form of clothing, the majority of what you have to say after that point is received as considerably ‘dumbed down’.”
It is funny because I have never thought of a woman as having less intelligence or less credibility because she posted a photo of herself in a swimsuit.
I also plan to post a photo of my abs pretty soon when I have lost the weight I want to lose.
Do you think posting a photo of yourself in a swimsuit online takes away from your credibility as a blogger?
Comments (91)
Ha, I have no credibility to begin with.
Interesting.
Yeah.
no, i don’t think it does. it just shows you’re not a fatass with nothing better to do than sit at the computer
hmm. maybe, maybe not. no one visits my blog anyway, so maybe i’ll do this! LOL!
Yeah, probably. I don’t do it for other reasons.
But god, if I looked like that girl, I would be trying to keep my clothes on as much as possible!
If you do it in a classy way, I don’t think so. But if you’re posting an obviously suggestive photo, you lose a few credibility points.
I am sure it does to some people. Not to mention, after seeing the bikini shot, men only having enough blood to operate their penises, will be much inclined to think of her as someone who might be “easy” or more willing to “show things”.
But not in every case, some men aren’t complete idiots.
Woah, you almost slipped that by me – there are going to be abs!
Abs >> girls in bikinis.
No. I think if you’re proud of your body, then show it off. It’s got nothing to do with your writing prowess or how smart you are.
If I ever accomplish what I want, I’ll post pics.
Possibly. I know you well enough by now not to be fazed by a photo of your abs. But if I’d never read your blog before and came across half naked photos of you on it, I may not give you the chance you deserve.
@sambepambe - awwww I know how ya feel. Maybe I’ll visit ya.
haha…for a second I thought this post was referring to me and my bikini weight loss challenge!
Since I am actively working toward the day when I can post a picture of myself in a bikini, I have to say this. The people who have read my blog for awhile now and usually post comments, know me. They read me on a regular basis. So I can only hope that my picture in a bikini does not change the perception of those who matter. And for those who don’t, like the casual passerby…I don’t actually care.
@desertrose2890 - I don’t think it would change a “long term” readers perspective.
If a woman has already built up credibility, then she can post a picture of herself in a swimsuit and still be appreciated for things other than her body. But when a woman immediately shows off her assets, we men tend to think that’s all she has to offer.
My milkshake brings all the girls to the yard! Ok, maybe not.
No
Maybe, I’m not sure.
i think it depends. maybe if you’re trying to be sexy or reveal the most amount of skin you can, but say if its just a casual get together with friends then no.
It doesnt*
But most girls would think you’re only posting bikini shots of yourself is to get guys
and starts talking shit about you , how desperate you are to get guys attention etc
Maybe.
hahaha,,,no 1. up there,,, i dont know her,,, most here to arent bloggers,,,,,
its the conversation,,, and the bikini shots,,,,,
If it’s completely random and just for the sole purpose of showing off their “awesome” body, then yeah I’d be a little less interested in what that person had to say. But if they just so happened to be wearing a swimsuit while at the beach or just having a good time, then who cares. I’m not just going to throw on a bikini and take a picture of myself wearing it in the middle of winter for no good reason.
i, myself, would never post a picture of me in a bikini.
Not at all. It dumbs down the people that dumb down in that sense though lol If that made sense!!!
All I know is that I could never take huginn seriously again, if I ever saw a picture of him in a swimsuit.
I hope not. I don’t even think it was much noticed when I did it. But then I was not trying to look sexy.
Depends on the swimsuit. If its a 1920′s swimsuit, I don’t think it will.
Nope.
Of course not, if it’s vacation shots or post-weight loss triumph pictures, people should be able to post freely without feeling they’re losing credibility
Your writing itself is what gains or loses your credibility
@DBF21 - thanks.
That’s awesome. When you’re showing your washboard abs…
I’ll have to give you mad cred!
On a side note, research on using sexy pictures in advertising shows that people tend to remember revealing ads well… but not what they were about. So, in a sense, one might construe from that information that people might have a harder time remembering what you’re talking about if you’re too “sexy.”
Sex sells, but perhaps indiscriminately.
On the other hand, ads tend to be short and sweet leaving less time for additional messages to register in the mind of the viewer…
not at all. if you have credibility and intelligence, then you have it. if you don’t then you don’t. posting a photo of yourself in a swimsuit wont change that.
I don’t post pics of me in bikinis, and it’s not because I would lose credibility because of it. Checking me out on the beach is different from checking me out online… Seems sleazy on here to me.
I see it like myspace. Some of those women come in there in the worst and least amount of dress…the purpose being…their on the prowl, tryin’ to find them some meat.
So if a woman “poses” in a picture with a suit on as you described…and put it out here? I would have to agree with your friend, simply because of the nature of the internet and those who peruse/use it.
If the woman happened to be in a beach shot…in general, and wasn’t posing for the pic…then I would agree with you.
What is it with you posting shots of women in Bikini’s or scantily clad lately? Sheesh….your substance is on a diet it seems
i have one of me in my panties. enjoy.
yes, if they’re doing it for attention.
I think it takes away from your credibility and honor as a person.
It all depends on how the blogger plans their post. If the blogger posts the photos first and then talks, I’d be more inclined to just view the photos…. however, the way you posted just now, I basically skipped over the picture. I put it out of the main picture, if you will. Don’t get me wrong, I looked, but it wasn’t necessary for me to get your complete intentions of the blog.
No, but it will attract people to your site who won’t be reading, and who wants subs/friends who don’t read? lol
If I posted a picture of me in a swim suit nobody would write a response because they would be to repulsed and probably blinded.
Depends on why you posted it. Because you’re whoring yourself for comments? Yes. Because you genuinely felt good about yourself? No.
If anything, I think it would enhance my credibility as a writer. But I don’t think Xanagans would want to see my pasty body in a bikini.
Can you imagine reading a blog from a girl that actually knows how to write things of substanceand feels comfortable enough to post a picture up like that? She’d be the most popular chick on Xanga for sure! [;
I don’t think that it’ll affect me that much personally.
I live in Florida. I did have some pics in a bikini, but I think that they’re gone now. I’m not too sure. I was cleaning out my photobucket so they’re probably not on xanga.
But none of those odd Myspace angular photoshopped ones though. Regardless of if I’m in a bikini or not, my writing is not gonna change. It’ll just bring those freaky XangaPorno sites around. Ugh. I don’t want that. :[
But I don’t really post lots of pictures on Xanga anyway. I post more pictures on Facebook.
Hm. I don’t know, really. I think it sort of depends.
no. it doesn’t matter how much [or little] clothing someone [of any gender] is wearing in a picture online…they’re credibility lies in what they say…
It all depends on the reason for posting that picture in the first place.
Hm.
I’m not sure to be truthful! It could show courage but maybe it could also go that way? Man. I know I wouldn’t not because I’m worried about appearing “dumb”. Just that I have the lack of confidence to do so…Nor do I like my body. LOL
But yeah. I’m not sure.
that seems silly
if youre going to apply for a job, then yeah it does. people stil think that chicks with glassesa re smarter, when in reality it depends on the person. thats why you wear a suit to a job interview, hence why employers sometimes dont hire pierced and tatooed people. but people can wear flip flops to my funeral anyday
i dont care.
no no no
if she posted a bunch of bikini pics, then it would probably make her seem attention-seeking
nahh. i did :]
I think it adds credibility.
well I think it all depends, if that’s all you show of yurself then maybe, but if it’s just a post to show how good you feel in yur new outfit or something then thats different.
HAHAHA! I’d certainly hope not.
Have you SEEN my pictures?
it depends on what the gesture looks like. normally, it will takes the credibility unless the girl’s job is relate to that…
@Xcholo4u - Did you see the hairy pic Dan posted a few posts ago….was that you??
@mangotini - You look better than the one in the post.
I’m a woman and I feel that way.
idk it depends on how credible your blog really is. i think posting a bikini pic of yourself if you only pretend to really know what you’re talking about…. will wear down that front quicker.
Maybe I’ll post a bikini shot once I get to where I want to be…
I don’t think I’ll lose any of the small amount of credibility that I have. And if I do – well, then, fuck credibility.
I have a hard time taking anyone serious when they pose scantily clad. If the photo is from a day at the beach, that’s not so bad. If you’re posing beside a fire truck, you look peculiar. If you’re posing in front of your bedroom podcom, you can look downright desperate.
no. it probably means you’re bored and need to find a hobby.
I don’t hyper-analyze such things. If a pic of me in a bikini makes its way onto the internet, that’s fine with me. Whatever. I always hope people talk to me/visit my sites for mental stimulation, however, and not to look at a piece of…you know.
Hmmm… on the small scale, I’m not sure. I haven’t posted any pictures of myself in a bikini here, because well, I am not worried about what people think of my looks here on Xanga.
Although, I am naked on the Internet elsewhere. And honestly, if anyone thinks that being comfortable with myself and posing nude makes me dumb, then I don’t want to be associated with them. Of course, there are girls… like the Myspace Whores… who I am assuming hop over here to Xanga every now and then. In my opinion, those are the stupid bitches who give the awesome girls of the world a bad name.
You know, not for me, but I think in general, yes. I am very shrewd and selective when I form opinions (note: form opinions not judge). But T did just say the other day that someone I was talking about had less-than-fully-clothed pictures on her X, and therefore her opinion of her was low… but she was trying to break that opinion because she knew it was shallow. It both surprised me and didn’t surprise me.
ehh. depends on the girl.
This friend of yours sounds quite witty indeed.
The build up to the ab reveal begins!
Uh, Absolutely not. That’s ridiculous. I don’t think anyone would think I was less intelligent if I wrote a post and then threw a photo of me rocking a bikini on top of it.
And on the same point, I know plenty of women who show artistic photos of themselves nude on their websites and are some of THE most intelligent people I know. Talking literally PhD level intelligence.
I have no idea where body image correlates with intelligence. Just because someone has some confidence to show off their body it doesn’t mean that they are dumb? I’m not sure how someone can even compare those two things.
I agree with a lot of these posters… it depends on the relationship to the person posting the shot of herself [himself] in the bikini [or other attire].
There is a whole lot more to this question [which is why it is a good question] than may at first meet the eye.
Some people are going to think…. WOW! I must meet this person, or have just the opposite reaction… and only want to look.
There is no question that the swimsuit photo is going to cast an impression, and the poster of the photo SHOULD know what that impression may be and the risks involved [what would they be looking to gain from posting the photo, exactly?].
Because everyone is different, the answers are going to be as varied as well.
it creates attention. <_< I posted a blog on my page with 2 girls and I got twice as many views as my regular blogs. I was like wtf… -_-”
I don’t think you lose credibility but it does attract retards to your page whether you think they will or not… lol
@Seedsower~ Maybe
hell no! If you’re a good writer, it makes you all the sexier, man or woman. And if you’re a man, then wearing a bikini in the shot would make you funnier…. and maybe sexier… if funny = sexy… I say go for it. The internet is definitely suffering from a dearth of bikini shots….
i think that if you were just showing yourself in a bikini just to show your body then some people might not take you seriously but if it was connected to a blog that you were writing then I think that more people would not disregard your blogs.
I don’t feel comfortable wearing a bikini in front of my friends yet, let alone posting a pic of me in them on my blog.
If it’s a picture of yourself – no. If you are a faker and claim to have lost 140 lbs and then you post a picture of an anorexic model in a bikini – yes.
For female Xangans maybe. Hopefully I’m wrong. Because one day I might want to post pictures of myself but not in a bikini, in something that show a little skin. Not a whole lot just something normal girl would have wear down the street but, seem a whole lot for me. I used to cover up my body, a shame how I looked. Even in the summer time I wore long pants to cover up my chubby thighs and a loose top to not show any curve of my body. Now, I’m gradually starting to like my body for what it is. I want to wear all the things I was never comfortable wearing before but was dying too inside. Yeah, all this started once I see some result from excerising.
hell no
Are you kidding? When I get where I want to be, hopefully within the year, there will be abs.
Whatever happened to not judging a book by the cover?
I once posted a picture that happened to have my bare feet in the frame.
The foot-fetish trolls loved it.
I think a bikini picture just distracts from any sort of point you are trying to make with your blog.
Maybe. . .continually posting pictures of other people in little clothing does.
haha well i probably wouldn’t do it in the first place, simply because there are creepers out there who could come try and find where i live and stalk me. but if i did, i don’t think i would lose credibility as a blogger. long as you’re not posing like it’s a victoria’s secret shoot then why should other bloggers think less of you.
What credibility?
Yes, it does.
Let me go post a picture of me in a bikini and find out.
my whole xanga is about how i look so i have regular topless shots, have my footprints dropped nope , have i had bitchy comments only one *who was grossed out about my nipples haha everone has them hunnie i bet she undresses and hyper ventalates seeing hers*
do i feel think or dumb doing it nope, think im stupid…. keep walking xxx
Yea.
-Yes and no. If you just take a picture of yourself in a bikini indoors -with no pool around. Yes. -I don’t get why people do that?
-Now if you are with other people and at the beach or the pool just having a good time when the photo is taken. Then no.
-Same goes for men. -I wouldn’t really want to see a man in a bikini. But as far as getting shots of his abs or something like that just to flaunt it
This tells me that they are more interested in flaunting what they look like rather than what they have to say- even if that message is not intended
Good luck with the abs