Seeing Ourselves Through Technology (Ch.2) Reflection

When I first read this, I was not very sure what to think of the counter-arguments between filters. It had me confused a bit whether they’re saying filters are good or bad, I feel like filters aren’t a bad thing unless you add a meaning to it to exaggerate the picture. Filters could add a story or an extra meaning to a picture to get the message across the views. Filtering is very big that media applies it as a job like on magazine or in politics. False reality then again still does not apply unless someone apply a meaning to it. Some people might not even see filtered pictures as anything more than art, while other people might see it as a meaning that even the person who took the picture might not even apply any meaning to it. So in the end, I feel like filters are not a bad thing. This generation, it is hard to find a good picture that doesn’t have filters. Even the slightest editing like dimming the light would be considered filtering. Snapchat, a popular app for social media uses filters, but doesn’t ask you if you want to add filters to it, as for Instagram, another famous social media, there is always questions about if you want to add filters or not.