New fears for photo editing apps

Social media has somewhat become a distorted version of reality.

Users share a highlight reel of their life in pictures, heavily filtered and altered – it gives the illusion their life is a lot more shiny and fun than it really is.

Now, new concerns have emerged for photoshopping apps, much like FaceTune, with people taking to Twitter expressing their fear of being ‘catfished.’

Catfishing is a dating phenomenon where people are lured into a relationship online by someone using a fake picture – or unrealistic images of themselves.

The latest app to come into contention is a Turkish photoshop app called Photolift. Essentially it is used as a slimming app, where a person can use the controls to slim down their face and body or enlarge their breasts or muscles – and the results are astounding.

The developer says the app is an “excellent tool for editing your photos for your Instagram, Facebook profile or posts for many other social media platforms.”

But many are pointing out the fact that this is an opportunity for people to trick budding love interests into thinking they look different but also that they may be extensively damaging to people who already have a hard time comparing themselves to the high standards set by Instagram models and the social media world.

Sharing their own photoshopped snaps on Twitter, many showed the huge difference you can make with a couple clicks of a button:

But we think it should be used more to create hilarious distorted images like this:

It’s better to keep things au naturale anyway.