Posted on 04/19/2019 9:33:57 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Looking to live the glamorous, well-traveled life — and stir envy among your Instagram followers — but can’t afford it? Well, now you can have a photo of yourself digitally altered to make it seem like you can.
A Nebraska-based photo-editing service named Fake A Vacation lets users send in snapshots to have them superimposed onto fake backgrounds. Options include a sandy beach in Maui, the rushing waters of Niagara Falls, even the Grand Canyon at sunset.
It may seem like a joke service, but lying about travel is a far more common practice than you may think.
According to a study released Wednesday that surveyed over 4,000 American adults over 18, flight cost-comparison Jetcost concluded that 14 percent of respondents fibbed to others about their flashy vacations. Ten percent of that pool even went the extra mile to post a fake on social media.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
OK, here’s a useful one: Announce a vacation on all your social media. Put your vehicles in the garage or off-site, so the house looks empty. Then await the break ins by the local thugs who follow such announcements looking for opportunities. Don’t kill ‘em unless you have to, in fear for your life (wink, wink).
Is that Brian Williams.
I believe the cops have done this to sting burglars a few times :-)
I think that my ‘friends’ would all become suspicious if I started posting pictures of ‘myself’ hanging out on the French Riviera with Kathy Ireland.
(Not that I wouldn’t like to, mind you, but, uh, nevermind.)
Failing at life.
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