You’re bored and neither studying nor doing anything productive sounds appealing. Instead, it sounds like a perfect opportunity to document how good you look today by taking pictures of yourself, then sharing them with the online world via Facebook.

As you snap various shots of yourself, time passes and soon you have over 100 pictures. Let the procrastination commence as you start the editing process of your recent photo shoot.

You realize turning up the exposure and the contrast really seems to give your photos edge. You add your favorite song lyrics, plus hearts and stars all over the pictures, just for kicks and giggles.

Finally, your photographs are complete. Fortunately, for you and your 1,000 or so closest Facebook friends, you decide there’s no possible way you could simply choose just one photo to upload, because you look hot in all of them. You put them in a new album cleverly entitled “pix of me.”

After posting your “America’s-Next-Top-Model”-worthy pictures, you anxiously await for the abundance of notifications you’ll be receiving. Between the comments and the likes, you’re not going to be able to keep up. Facebook should probably just come out with a “love” button already.

Does this sound oddly familiar? There’s a good chance it might be you now, or you in middle school. I’m hoping for the latter. But don’t feel too bad about yourself, because you’re not alone. It’s our generation.

My point in recounting the picture whore’s path to whoredom isn’t to make fun of them, but to point out that it’s become an epidemic — a quite annoying epidemic. Although some seem to grow out of it as we get older, there’s still a surprisingly amount who partake in this. But why, why, why?

“Because after all the cake and watermelon, there’s a chance they’re actually gonna get…laid,” a notorious line from the enlightening film “The Social Network.” This film informs us that this infatuation concerning the opposite sex is ultimately the driving force behind popular social networking sites. Who is dating who? Are they Facebook official? Blah, blah, blah. With our generation, it’s more than merely waiting for a phone call or going out on a date, we also have to worry about our online profiles as well.

We want our profile to reflect a positive perception of us, but some don’t seem to care about accuracy. Trying to look perfect online in order to appeal to the opposite sex cannot only come across as annoying, but disappointing as well.

“It’s annoying to look at your newsfeed and see that half of it consists of the same girl, doing the same pose,” sophomore Justin Ardnt said. “To me it just shows that you want people to tell you how good you look, and in reality that never happens. If I see girls online who take pictures with their friends, I think way more of them than the girl who takes mirror pictures.”

Although girls seem to be more notorious for this kind of Facebook boredom behavior, we are not the only active participants in this trend. There are plenty of guys who are guilty of the same snafu, i.e. the muscle tank mirror picture. You know what I’m talking about.

“The infamous mirror pictures are completely unattractive,” freshman Jessi Struckhoff said. “I know the thought process is stereotypical, but it shows a level of vanity that I am uncomfortable with in boys. To be quite frank, I like boys who are more attracted to my looks than their own.”

It seems to be a general consensus that Facebook should represent your life by posting pictures about cool events you’ve attended, activities you’re involved in and your friends and family, not how many photos you can make the same “sexy” face in. If you’re looking for love online, go to match.com and get off my newsfeed.