Benefits and harms of selfie
Tips Motivation / / December 19, 2019
Someone thinks selfie craze innocent fun, someone so engaged in self-promotion, someone manages to create art, and someone considers overreliance on this kind of photography as mental disorder. So what is it and how to stop in time without skipping a line and not get nervous disorder and depression, and benefits?
Among my friends do not indulge selfie only those who still just mobile phones rather than smartphones. Those who have a phone with a more or less normal camera and Instagram, sent into the world at least one selfie. Personally for me before selfie was something of salvation, that is, here I am in some wonderful place, but no one is near, and a photo of yourself like on the background, and that's had to get out (sometimes literally) to capture the moment. Now, however, this type of photography has become so popular that they are interested in psychology, and some even carried him to mental disorders. So what is a selfie - a painful manifestation of narcissism, or a way to express themselves, and how the overreliance on this kind of expression can affect your life?
According to psychologists
According to psychologists, most selfie carry sexual connotations, and their purpose is to attract attention and to create an image, which often does not correspond to reality.
In principle, it is logical, since Instagram is a social network, then, it will come down to create the desired virtual image. In humans, too too keen about this kind of self-expression, depression begins, if they collect too little likes, if they are bad comment or if someone from acquaintances collected more tokens.
Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., a psychologist and researcher, associate professor of psychology at Weill Medical College Cornell University, wrote a whole article and gave examples of the revelations, which were divided fans selfie. Who is doing it in order to feel more confident as a 40-year-old Sarabeth, COO in media companies. Lena Dunham thus protests against Hollywood standards of beauty, making selfie with the slogan "Love me for who I am" (sometimes nude). Selfie listed in moderate quantities is not an aberration, but if we are talking about huge quantities and obsession, then the problems begin.
Negative sides
Yet selfie obsession with appearance and are a manifestation of narcissism. People feel the protagonists of the reality show "Behind the Glass" with high self-esteem. It's like a whole day to look at herself in the mirror. Studies have shown that excessive enthusiasm selfie may have a negative impact on your relations within the family (or a loved one), parenting, work environment, as well as cause explosions of violence.
Yet some studies have shown that excessive enthusiasm for putting some self-portraits (ie selfie) in the network leads to the fact that in the reality of man becomes less sympathetic to others, the degree of heat in a real relationship is also reduced and people moving away each from friend.
Positive aspects, or how to use the benefit selfie
- However, not all that bad, because in the right hands and with the right approach selfie can be a wonderful tool for work on oneself. They can help to understand themselves and open up new vistas for the quality and creativity as well as allow a person to be multi-faceted.
- Not necessarily selfie sells individual. It may well sell brand new fashion trends show or have certain artistic value, if those involved are not just people to satisfy their vanity, and real creators.
- Selfie celebrities allow their fans to feel closer to their idols. Stars share a piece of your life, write the answers and create the impression of relative proximity to his fans. Is this good or bad for the fans - it's difficult to judge, but for the stars is exactly right.
- Selfie also can affect the modern ideals of beauty and show how beautiful can be naturalness, not the retouched makeup first and then Photoshop images (for example, photos before and After make-up).
- And finally, selfie can act as a personal chronicler. They show your change history and development, reminiscent of the past, and can help to avoid past mistakes. If translated into normal language, it is thought in the style of "Hmm, red color to me is clearly not to face ..." "What a terrible haircut!" "Mommy, who is it ?!" "So, we must remember that after the second glass of beer phone need to hide!" And so on and so like. ;)
- I almost forgot about sports selfie in the style of "before and after" - it is also very motivating!
A bit of observations and statistics
I went in and put Instagram hashtag #selfie, to understand the extent of the disaster. As a result, I received just such a picture:
By the time I finished writing the article, the figure for the hashtag #selfie with 151,691,246 changed to 151 713 655, which is about an hour there was a 22 409 photos with the hashtag. How many actually came of these photos (not yet put the necessary hashtags) - can only guess.