I want to catch capture your soul! For your sake as much as mine, I think.

In this day and age, where every other person has a camera and every third of those people consider themselves an amateur photographer, you won't be able to walk down the street or go to a party without someone snapping a picture of you.
It's stunning, how powerful even the thought of getting caught on the tiny receptor of those cameras is.

Photographees react differently depending on the circumstances. Variables of the situation can include whether it's a friend taking your photos, or a stranger.
If it's a close friend, I suspect Facebook's existance pretty much dictates the photographee's attitute towards the picture-taking; knowing that there is a remote possibility that the pictures will end up on Facebook, photographees think about how they look, where they are, what they're drinking, where they're looking (at the camera, or not at the camera), how "aware" they decide to be of the camera, etc. Even the photographee's feelings about the photographer can make an impact - For me, if my mom takes my picture, I sort of don't care what I look like. If my friend the artist is taking a picture of me with her super hi-tech camera, I want the picture to be to the photographer's liking, so that maybe, that person will try to make the photo look good, show it off, and I will have a second of celebrity when someone else sees it.

Photography by strangers can be intoxicating, but probably because there's still a chance, albeit a smaller one, that someone will see the photographee in the picture, giving the photographee brief celebrity, even though the photographee might never know it. This feeling of unknown celebrity, it's very driving.

Has Facebook made all of us mini-celebrities? Oh yeah. Every single one of us.
How do I feel when I see other people's photos, and when they see my photos? I lo ve looking at pictures of people I know, and I like the thought of them looking at pictures of me. It feels similar to people looking at me in real life, and I like attention as much as the next person.

How do I feel about photos that are kept in people's private collections, never to be seen by the light of the laptop screen? It's inevitable that some photos are lost forever - there's just too much memory available, and taking a billion pictures is too easy.

Do people ever actually never want to have their photo taken? I think I would never not want my photo taken (unless I look terrible, of course). I don't understand when people refuse to have their photos taken.
So what if I have an image of you?
What do you care?
Is it invasive?
If so, why?
Is it just facebook?
Is it me?
Are you worried that I'll perform vodoo rituals on your photo?
Do you not want to be the center of my attention?
If so, why?
Are you not enough of a celebrity for me to be snapping photos of you in front of your friends?
Do you think you look bad?

Photographees are weird.

(next: why do I want to take pictures of people?)