Comment by jamal-kumar

I've been telling people for over a decade that my reason for not wanting my photo taken is because a piece of your soul gets taken away into that photograph and if it's uploaded to the internet, it's lost in a virtual world forever. Yeah, it's a joke, but it seriously gets more acceptance and understanding, and less scoffing than telling people I really don't like my face in the corporate surveillance panopticon as much as I can avoid it. There just isn't any point in feeding that nonsense, on the other hand people are very quick to dismiss anything that sounds like paranoia from anyone. The logical solution I've found here is somewhere in the middle because apparently nobody dismisses people's spiritual beliefs. The result is that people respect my wishes to not be in photos.