I’ve noticed while reading other people’s reflection, they had a selfie that had something to do with where they were, what they were doing, or who they were with. At least majority of the ones I’ve seen were like that anyways. These selfies not only apply to whatever we wrote in the blog, but also I’ve seen these kinds of selfies around friends and also other random strangers all over the internet. I thought it was interesting because people don’t often take selfies of those in the past when they had something interesting in their life, but the majority of the young people today take selfies almost everyday in every scenario. I have a friend who took selfies practically everyday on Snapchat and sends it as their “streaks” for the day. If you head to specific social media where your posts are up until you want to delete them like Facebook or Instagram has people smiling a lot in the pictures like “fake reality”. Sometimes, but not often do they post selfies of themselves crying or looking very negative. I did a little research because this article sparked my curiosity on how many people take selfies a day and so according to Adweek, 93 million of selfies are taken a day, to me that’s a lot of selfie a day. Funny to think that out of those 93 million selfies, none of them are mine because I don’t take selfies or have any on my phone. Speaking of taking pictures, going back to earlier when I said most of the selfies are random, but for the ones that have specific events, that reminded me of the day when I had my phone, there was a huge suddenly breaking out in the middle of me getting my new phone, and so everybody stepped to the side so nobody gets caught in the mix of the fight or gets hurt. So I tried to take my phone to record (never actually happened because the dude at the apple store had my phone so I could record or take pictures of what happened). It all comes down to in our society, camera seems to be the major resource of the generation. Every event had to be taken with a camera, rather than leave it be for experience first person. It is in a way kind of beneficial this generation to have camera everywhere you go though. Why I feel like people take selfies is because it in a way has become a habit for them to take it everywhere they go. Others could be for memories that is very sincere to them. For me, I feel like taking selfies is unnecessary because not everything has to have you in it. My other reason is just basically I don’t look good in pictures and I like to keep a very very low profile. When I take a picture, it is just the picture of whatever I want the picture to be about rather than having me in it. Having me in it is like saying that you’re taking a picture of the event, but you want the views to be the ones focusing on you rather than the event that you intended the picture to be about.
By the way, like I said before, I don’t take selfies, but this is for grade so ;-;
(I will still keep a low profile)
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