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A Seemingly Good Thing With Nega4ve Consequences By: Samuel Chu
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What Is A Selfie? According to the Oxford Dic4onary, “selfie” is defined as: “A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website”
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In recent years the selfie has taken the Internet by storm Selfies populate the internet and across many social media sites
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For example, Snapchat, a photo-‐based messaging service, is processing 350 million photos each day
(Wortham, 2013)
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With the uprising popularity of the selfie, so do concerns of increased vanity, narcissism, and obsession with body image
(Wortham, 2013)
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Image-‐Control: People now have the ability to delete, edit, and manipulate photos, and can create over their self-‐image they want others to see
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But this can lead to poor self-‐esteem and negaHve self-‐perspecHves of body image, even potenHal psychological disorders.
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According to a survey: • 55% of girls and 34% of boys say social media makes them more self-‐conscious of their appearance
• 58% of teen girls say seeing glamorous portrayals of others on social media makes them feel bad about themselves
• 30% of all teens say social media means they need to be “camera ready” (Dahl, 2014)
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According to a study done by three universi4es on 881 female US college students, research found “a link between Hme spent on social networks and negaHve comparisons about body image”.
(Briggs, 2014)
“There's a danger that your self-‐esteem may start to be 4ed to the comments and Likes you get when you post a selfie, and they aren't based on who you are—they're based on what you look like” -‐ Jill Weber, Ph.D. (Walker, 2013)
"Two out of three of all the paHents who come to see me with Body Dysmorphic Disorder since the rise of camera phones have a compulsion to repeatedly take selfies
-‐ Dr. David Veal (KeaHng, 2014)
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Danny Bowman’s Story: Danny is a BriHsh teenager who aZempted suicide a[er he was unable to take what was the perfect selfie
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He spent roughly 10 hours per day taking up to 200 selfies to take the “perfect” shot
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As it progressed, he dropped out of school, lost 30 lbs and stayed in his house for 6 months to take the perfect picture. He was saved by his mother during the suicide aZempt. (KeaHng, 2013)
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“I was constantly in search of taking the perfect selfie and when I realized I couldn’t, I wanted to die. I lost my friends, my educaHon, and almost my life.”
-‐ Danny Bowman (Kea4ng, 2013)
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Another negaHve example of selfies was during March 2014, when the “makeup-‐free selfie” trend emerged
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Many women took “natural” selfies, posHng them with a #nomakeup or #nofilter hashtag to supposedly raise cancer awareness… versus
donaHng money or menHoning how to donate.
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This trend has been criHcized as encouraging the act of “veiling vanity as philanthropy” and not raising genuine awareness for the supposed cause.
(Adegoke, 2014)
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Although on the surface selfies look harmless and fun, such examples, trends and preliminary research
warn us that there may be hidden consequences with their overuse
today.
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This all sounds interes4ng… “But first…
Lemme take a selfie…” -‐ #Selfie by The Chainsmokers
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