rook2c4 wrote:
It may look like a craze, but I don't believe it is. Rather, it is just an extension of the nature of social media. Is social media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) nothing more than a craze? I think this will be with us for quite some time, in some form or another, and so will selfies, which are linked to social media.
Personally, I don't do selfies. But I also don't do social media. Yet even as a non-participant, it's not that difficult to observe what's going on in that realm, and see why selfies are such an integral part of it.
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I think there is also an element of "look where I am" or "look what I'm doing" to selfies. I don't need to have pictures of myself to prove (to who?) that I've been somewhere or done something I think is special. But then again, forums like this are the closest I get to social media.