trying to stay hip, but I just don't get the whole 'thirst trap' thing.

[KG]

I'm over 60 now, should I just throw in the towel and you kids stay off my lawn?

[redstatebluegirl]

1. I am with you.

I also don't get the idea of posting half nude pictures on FB and other social media. I have a 20 year old niece who posts pictures of herself in bikinis all the time. She has a beautiful body, but I don't get the need to share it all the time. I'm over 65 so there is that to consider.

[Ocelot II]

2. I'll throw in the towel with you, since I didn't even know what a thirst trap was

until you posted this, and then I had to look it up. Sadly, I don't think my trapping would be very thirst-provoking, so I guess I'll go chase the kids off my lawn.

[ShazzieB]

12. I had to look it up, too.

I had a guess of sorts, but I was waaaaayyyy off!

[dweller]

3. Did you forget

to post a ‘pic’ ?
😱

✌🏻

[Botany]

4. Are you gonna post a picture of yourself?

Thirst Trap
A sexy photograph or flirty message posted on social media for the intent of causing others to publicly profess their attraction. This is done not to actually respond or satisfy any of this attraction, but to feed the posters ego or need for attention, at the expense of the time, reputation and sexual frustration of those who view the image or reply.

My pix:

[spooky3]

6. That is a very good looking dog! And the owner's not bad either. :-)

[Botany]

7. It is not clipped from the internet after doing a google search and then hitting images.

n/t

[spooky3]

8. :-) the wooden badminton racquet gave it away...

[Treefrog]

10. Good eye!

[Ocelot II]

11. In that case, here's me:

Right?

[smirkymonkey]

13. Well, that doggie is just adorable!

Sorry, people. If there is a dog in the photo, I am not going to notice you.

[FalloutShelter]

5. Social Media feeds and encourages rampant narcissism.

As an artist and practicing Buddhist, I have struggled with the rise in toxic emotions that participation in Instagram causes in me. While I love the positive comments and the expanded community of artists I can communicate with, I feel unhealthy competitiveness arises from time to time and some bitterness if my work is not received as I would like. It also causes doubts to arise about my standing in the community and the value of my work. I feel a spike in competitiveness when I see others actually selling work when I am not. None of this bothered me before I began to participate in social media.

In 2019, I had the very well-received gallery exhibits and sold 20k of art, not of it had anything to do with social media. Yet stagnation on Instagram grinds me down and gives rise to doubt.

My thirty-seven-year-old niece is an IT specialist, and she is always yelling at me to increase my social media profile, but I think my spiritual health is more valuable to my work practice than a couple of likes from strangers.

I shudder to think of its effect on my teen granddaughters' fledgling sexuality and developing body image. Thirsty-Trap? I cringe when they insist on sticking their tounges out in selfies.
Kind of a long share, but JMHO.

[Paladin]

9. "Thirst Trap": Sexy photo posted to get compliments; ego trip for poster.

Thank you, Urban Dictionary, for the 18,748th time.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Learn something new every day.

I just looked it up and had no idea what it was before today.

Now that I do, I think it's pretty stupid and narcissistic, but I am not on most popular forms of social media where i have to put up with people constantly posting pictures of themselves. The self-absorption of so many people these days is just unbelievable.

[eShirl]

15. I'd be more of a thirst repellant

[3catwoman3]

16. This strikes me as one of those decisions tht will...

...be looked on with regret a couple of decades hence.