One of the challenges in social networks is their relationship not only with the truth but also with the proliferation of misleading situations, something that is challenged with filters that often completely change people’s profiles. This is the case of Ninoska Ramírez, who experienced an affront that she decided to make public.

This excessive use of filters, which has impacted people’s confidence and self-esteem, sets a standard of beauty that varies across publications. to improve the reach of views and “I like“.

A clear example of this is what happened to a woman from Massachusetts, USA, who traveled to Washington to meet her boyfriend on the tracks and was rejected in the worst possible way.

The woman rejected for not using filters for her photos

The protagonist of the story recounted her experience in a video shared on TikTok. She there she explained that her alleged boyfriend rejected her since he disliked seeing her live as she “had no filter”.

“For the guy who gave me the trip to Washington and then saw me without a filter; he wanted nothing from me“Wrote Ninoska Rodríguez, who added:” I’m actually guilty of abusing the filters, he should have given himself the opportunity to get to know me better.

The TikTok video has more than 5.5 million views and nearly 10,000 comments.where users commented on the incredible situation of a frustrated love, but also, according to some comments, full of “pathos in all respects”.

The role of filters in the story of the rejected girl

Rodríguez said in his TikTok video that “in video calls one looks at himself as he is”, and he never expected the rejection he suffered.

However, he found his silver lining. “At least he paid for my trip, that’s the most important thing.” And she also received several questions in her publication: “I don’t understand why they put a filter,” wrote a follower and added: “You have to be honest from the start, of course.”

In another video, Ninoska clarified that she uses filters because she feels insecure about her body, not with the aim of deceiving her followers. I use a filter, I don’t have a nice body, I don’t have money, a house or a car, but I have papers,” he concluded.

Filters are a health risk

In 2019, the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery published a report warning of the link between the increase in aesthetic operations and the proliferation of “selfies” with filters on social networks.

According to their results, one in ten Spanish citizens who have undergone professional advice for a retouch on their face cited their appearance in selfies as a reason.

In the United States, for their part, statistics seem to link the recent increase in rhinoplasties with these habits in the networks, since in general the front cameras of mobile phones have a “fish eye” effect which contributes to having an incorrect perception of our face.