Thirst trapping or fishing for compliments, whatever you want to call it, people on social media are constantly using their posts to seek validation from the public and it's a dangerous game.
While some people who display this kind of behavior are genuinely just insecure, according to Dr.George Simon, PhD of "Ask The Psych," others may do it to manipulate others into paying them recognition. The following is a collection of people who went out looking for praise on the internet but forgot that nobody is safe in the web universe. Scroll through these bold photos and captions and read the brutal responses they received and don't forget to upvote your faves!
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Ugh. Neediness and external loci of affirmation really don't do it for me.
...BRUH I'm 220 lbs (I'm working on losing fat and building muscle, so please dont come at me)
When skinny girls call themselves fat I think to myself my God if they're fat they must think I'm a whale
Exercise doesn't always help, neither do diets, some people are heavily built and even starvation won't do anything except make things worse.
Honey, I am well over twice your size. While I am blessed to be healthy while being morbidly obese (constantly struggling) when some who is still way below my dream weight complaining, it makes me roll my eyes so hard, I'm afraid I may pull a muscle!
What’s your dream weight though? Lol. I’m like 147 now and I complain sometimes. Mainly though, I learned this year that everyone should shut up with the complaining and just hit the gym. It really works, quickly!
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But exercise will make you weigh more! If you do it right. But that's a good thing. :)
True. But usually you lose before you gain. For a woman at least.
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Maybe that's the baby in her lap talking.... A 129 lb baby?!? Geez dude..hit the gym already!!
She’s fishing for compliments but I understand her sentiment. If you’re super skinny, approaching 130lbs is a big change. I would like to be 129, myself. That’s goal weight. Anything less is borderline too skinny for me personally.
Seriously? Who blured their faces on big pic but left the miniature, which is made from the same picture?
Why would you even lie about something like that?! How despicable of a human being are you?!
I don't see how people "got more than they asked for" in 90% of these. What a pointless article...
I think it’s still in development... people can still upload. Hopefully good ones will come up.
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Some of them are harmless probs posted by young 12-13 year olds who need to put down the mirror and pick up a book but the one where the skinny girl poses with the curvy girl and says “we are so hott, guess who got hit on the most” that’s fishing for compliments and a butt whooping because you know what you’re doing. Drawing attention to yourself by playing off someone else’s insecurity’s.
I think people who are fishing for compliments are often insecure, so being nasty about it, is probaly not very helpful in stopping this behaviour.
Internet is a strange place. Post this under "Insecure teenage girls are looking to boost their self-confidence online, and here's how people react" and you'll get a flock of people defending their every posture because unique, special, we all need attention sometimes, wouldn't dream of hurting someone's self esteem etc etc. But call it fishing for compliments and "oof they got what they deserved!" :P
ok, so the people posting are almost like drunk texters, they don't think about it in the cold hard light of day, it's an impulse sort of thing. if they slept on it, ran it past a friend, whatever, they wouldn't been seen. but impulse is a crazy thing.
A lot of these are the first audible cries for help from troubled souls
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I don't see how people "got more than they asked for" in 90% of these. What a pointless article...
I think it’s still in development... people can still upload. Hopefully good ones will come up.
Load More Replies... Some of them are harmless probs posted by young 12-13 year olds who need to put down the mirror and pick up a book but the one where the skinny girl poses with the curvy girl and says “we are so hott, guess who got hit on the most” that’s fishing for compliments and a butt whooping because you know what you’re doing. Drawing attention to yourself by playing off someone else’s insecurity’s.
I think people who are fishing for compliments are often insecure, so being nasty about it, is probaly not very helpful in stopping this behaviour.
Internet is a strange place. Post this under "Insecure teenage girls are looking to boost their self-confidence online, and here's how people react" and you'll get a flock of people defending their every posture because unique, special, we all need attention sometimes, wouldn't dream of hurting someone's self esteem etc etc. But call it fishing for compliments and "oof they got what they deserved!" :P
ok, so the people posting are almost like drunk texters, they don't think about it in the cold hard light of day, it's an impulse sort of thing. if they slept on it, ran it past a friend, whatever, they wouldn't been seen. but impulse is a crazy thing.
A lot of these are the first audible cries for help from troubled souls
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