Can you imagine of having a holiday abroad in just £70 ? Though sounds unbelievable, it’s true. You can make it through fake-vacations. Faking vacations is already a trend in social media which allows selfie addicts to pay for mocked-up images of them anywhere in the world.
With ease, ample of such services can be accessed through internet conveniently. Faking a vacation means posing at your desired destinations without even taking a step out of your home.
Nowadays the demand of such fake photos have risen with the upsurge of social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.Today’s social media is full of stunning ocean snaps and romantic city photographs, but a handful of these enviable images may be fake !
People who can’t afford a luxury vacation abroad can simply digitally insert themselves into the world’s most famous destinations without ever having step foot outside their houses and all these can be purchased within just a fraction of their airfare.
To forge pics of clients at their coveted destinations, one of such sites – Fakeavacation.com charges from £38 to £70. The company not only deals with photo-making, but it takes care of every thing from providing pictures to educating their clients about the destinations. With this aspect it offers destinations like Ayers Rock or Uluru, Australia, or Cancun, Mexico etc.
In this field, another site, Krome Photos, takes credit of its automatic photo system which can earn users thousands of Instagram followers.
With this site you can upload a shot of yourself and it will place you in Paris, Barcelona, China and many more locations with an expense of just £7.
According to a survey, around 56 per cent of millennials’ social media holiday-posts are deceptive and photoshopped.
“We are working in this direction for some time. The new apps are the next step for people who can get great shots but don’t have to spend money to travel,” said the social media expert Sara Tasker.
Giving his view on the craze, Tom Eda – head of marketing and support at Fakeavacation.com, said that pressure on young people to post glamorous shots on social media accounts had led to a surge in use of the site. People fake it sometimes because the actual vacation is too expensive so they plan this way or sometimes they do it to get others envious.
In a nutshell, on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, such fake trips are spreading their own genre, with their own set of rules.
