"Selfies"...Do you take them? Do you like seeing them?

[OhMari]

I never look good, I am always looking out of the corner of my eye, I never have a true smile, blah.

 

[jdb in AZ]

My niece, 20-ish loves to take selfies and post them on Facebook. That's 90% of her posts and it's really annoying. It's like she's saying, "Yes, I know I'm cute; here's another chance for you to compliment me."

Maybe part of her problem is that she's the middle daughter with an older sis and a younger sis, both of whom are more photogenic, so the middle daughter is trying to re-affirm her standing in the family? I dunno. I just wish she would try to develop her personality instead of worrying so much about her appearance.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

My niece, 20-ish loves to take selfies and post them on Facebook. That's 90% of her posts and it's really annoying. It's like she's saying, "Yes, I know I'm cute; here's another chance for you to compliment me."

Maybe part of her problem is that she's the middle daughter with an older sis and a younger sis, both of whom are more photogenic, so the middle daughter is trying to re-affirm her standing in the family? I dunno. I just wish she would try to develop her personality instead of worrying so much about her appearance.

Marsha Marsha MARSHA!!!

 

[scrapquitler]

I think "selfie" is pretty much my most-hated word at the moment. I am tired of seeing them in my Facebook feed and tired of seeing celebrity ones on Good Morning America and the like.

I can't say I've ever been compelled to take a true "selfie." I guess one time I wanted to show my new haircut to my mom and sister (sent via text...not broadcasted on social media).

I totally understand traveling and sightseeing and wanting your picture taken with something famous in the background...and not having someone else available to take your photo. But what I don't understand is a person's desire to take lots of pictures of themselves and blast them all over social media. I think social media has made some people very self centered. The way I see it, if I see something cool I want to take a picture of, I don't see how the picture would be at all improved by me putting my own mug in front of it before snapping the picture.

Or...another example...I have a mom friend who posts 6-8 "selfies" of her and her baby each day. I love seeing baby pictures...but she puts her own face next to her baby's in every.single.one. Yes...it's her "right" to do this, I know I can block her...I'm just using this as an example to show how I just don't understand this selfie craze.

What are your thoughts?

Don't bother me at all. EXCEPT if you are taking the picture from an angle that means the camera is pointing down your cleavage, you are doing a bathroom selfie in your underwear or if you are making ducklips. Those bother me because I wonder if those chicks WANT to look like some cheap hoochie mama? And the duck lips are just stupid looking.

 

[rigs32]

I have gotten tired of handing my camera to someone to take a photo for me and that person takes a terrible photo, so I've mastered the art of the group selfie. Most people look better from that angle anyway.

I also don't get why holding an alcoholic drink is considered by some to be tacky. If I take a photo of my wine tasting double date, it's natural to be holding our wine glasses. It's like taking a photo with the field at my back during a baseball game.

 

[kirstenb1]

I've taken to calling them "Narcissies" (depending on who/what/where/when/why, of course). Some people have taken selfies to a new height of self-involvement.

Love this term!! There are 3 forty something moms on my Facebook who constantly post pics of themselves. Not of their kids, which I would totally understand. Themselves---cheeks sucked in, lots of makeup, dramatic facial expressions. I feel like asking them if they're 12 again.

 

[North of Mouse]

Nope, don't take them, don't like them - they're usually terrible pictures that I wouldn't want others to see. I do understand this is probably another passing crazy fad - another one is waiting around the corner!

 

[MichelleVW]

No and no. I think they are stupid. I also think Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc are stupid. No one cares what you ate for lunch.

I like to know what my friends had for lunch...still drooling over what what of my instagram friends had for breakfast...it looked delicious!

I have gotten tired of handing my camera to someone to take a photo for me and that person takes a terrible photo, so I've mastered the art of the group selfie. Most people look better from that angle anyway.

I also don't get why holding an alcoholic drink is considered by some to be tacky. If I take a photo of my wine tasting double date, it's natural to be holding our wine glasses. It's like taking a photo with the field at my back during a baseball game.

Right!! I love selfies of me and my girls on vacation...and on one or more occasion we've had drinks in our hand!

I don't know why the occasional selfie bothers people.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I am kinda guilty of taking them, but I like never post them. I will look and think WOW, I really look like an idiot, nobody needs to see this. Of course I have been guilty of something like this even before selfies were a "thing". Using the timer on a digital camera set it up and run over and pose in the frame..

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

I take them from time to time. It has to be for something like, look, I have a different hair color! though, generally. This is where my avatar on the dis came from haha

My sister takes them ALL THE TIME. She has an album of 100+ close up pictures of her face, which all look about the same. I don't understand it.

I will say I am guilty of posting far too many pictures of my dogs, however. They're very cute.

 

[EMode]

I don't take selfies because I'm not really self absorbed.

 

[lisaviolet]

Usually I'm the one behind the camera though, so sometimes there aren't pictures of me in situations I would like pictures of.

This.

I do believe it was the reason I first took one. Someone commenting that they like my shots but that I was in zero pictures.

I've taken to calling them "Narcissies" (depending on who/what/where/when/why, of course). Some people have taken selfies to a new height of self-involvement.

I loved your brackets.

I'm going to steal that term, if you don't mind!

I think that social media has just given narcissistic people a tool to take things to a whole new level.

Some are fun to see--a new mom taking one (not 20) with her new baby in the hospital...or a couple posing in front of their first home they just closed on...etc. But the whole idea of taking a picture of yourself and posting it on social media just for the heck of it is something I don't get.

Really?

Call me narcissistic!

I have no problem with selfies and think they are fun.

I think they're fun too.

I take them but rarely post them.
It doesn't really bother me to see them unless someone is blowing up my feed.

This.

Actually, if they are/were blowing up my feed I don't really care.
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Mainly I use them to judge hair colour of all things. For some reason the mirror lies to me at times.

My niece does them all the time and all I get out of that is that she is having fun.

I don't take selfies because I'm not really self absorbed.

Ouch. Harsh.

 

[MichelleVW]

I am kinda guilty of taking them, but I like never post them. I will look and think WOW, I really look like an idiot, nobody needs to see this. Of course I have been guilty of something like this even before selfies were a "thing". Using the timer on a digital camera set it up and run over and pose in the frame..

I always use the timer on my DSLR so I can be in the pictures too. My father was the photographer in the family so he was always taking never in the pictures. Well...he's gone now and we hardly have any pictures. I'm not going to have that happen.

I don't take selfies because I'm not really self absorbed.

Because I want a picture of me in front of the Castle at Disney and I'm alone I'm self absorbed?

Sometimes I will post them on instagram or facebook...but usually I just send them to my husband...he likes my face!

 

[EMode]

Because I want a picture of me in front of the Castle at Disney and I'm alone I'm self absorbed?

No, its not really the act of taking the pic I find makes you (general you) self absorbed. Its the act of posting it in FB because you think everyone else cares to see it.

 

[ZachnElli]

Selfies don't bother me at all. I don't have anyone on Facebook "blowing up my feed" with them either. My niece had a baby 3 weeks ago and she has posted 3 selfies with her and the baby and I think they are cute!

 

[Hollymom1229]

Occasional selfies are fine, I can't think of any of my friends that haven't posted at least one or two over the years. My current profile picture on FB is actually the last one I took which has DH and I swaddled up against the cold at a football game in January. I take issue with the people that post them all the time, 3 -4 a day seems to be a little self-absorbed and definitely screams "look at me, I require attention." That's kind of obnoxious to me. So my problem isn't really the selfie pic itself, but the attitude behind it.

 

[lisaviolet]

..but usually I just send them to my husband...he likes my face!

 

[leebee]

No and no. I think they are stupid. I also think Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc are stupid. No one cares what you ate for lunch.

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[MichelleVW]

No, its not really the act of taking the pic I find makes you (general you) self absorbed. Its the act of posting it in FB because you think everyone else cares to see it.

Lol...my friends do like to see my pics...that's why they are my friends on facebook, instagram or twitter. If they didn't they wouldn't be my friends. I love seeing pics of my friends....friend's vacations, what they had for breakfast if it was tasty, their cats, dogs, kids...and I don't care if they post 10-20 pics a day...I LOVE pictures and am very annoyed right now at my friend that's in Hawaii that has posted 2 stinkin pics and I KNOW she has her iphone with her.

 

[ZachnElli]

Lol...my friends do like to see my pics...that's why they are my friends on facebook, instagram or twitter. If they didn't they wouldn't be my friends. I love seeing pics of my friends....friend's vacations, what they had for breakfast if it was tasty, their cats, dogs, kids...and I don't care if they post 10-20 pics a day...I LOVE pictures and am very annoyed right now at my friend that's in Hawaii that has posted 2 stinkin pics and I KNOW she has her iphone with her.

And this seems to be part of the problem, people friending people they aren't actually friends with! I agree with you, I like seeing pics of my friends/family, but I also don't accept friend requests from people who aren't really my friends!