Brittany Rose - Rethinking the Selfie

I was trying extremely hard to read the entire article before I responded. That, however, didn't happen, I got to page nine before I was entirely triggered (even though that first started on page six for me).  I would also like to mention that I am not an avid selfie taker, that is not to say I do not take selfies but I refuse to be the type of person to sit there for hours attempting to get the perfect one, I find that to be a waste of my time just for someone to scroll through Instagram, look at it for a few microseconds and decide whether or not my picture is worth moving their thumb to like it. I don't entirely understand that, which is funny as I am a teenager in the 21st century.  Now I am still guilty of snapchat, as almost anyone my age is (don't get me wrong I'm probably going to delete it soon), but that is beside that point. I disagree that the selfie is a point of individuality and a way to represent themselves. If you have ever scrolled through a teenage girl's Instagram, ALL THE PHOTOS ARE THE SAME. Honestly, the only difference is who the girl is and the face. I really wish I was kidding, but society has not encouraged individuality but condemned the youth to take hours upon hours to impress their peers with just the right angle and right light. Taking away the realness of the photo by cleaning only the corner of the room containing the selfie, hiding all imperfections of life. To create this other you, as the article dubbed "unrealistic representation". That does not make sense to me personally, filling your phone gigs up with hundreds of photos of yourself seems vain to me. So I guess I agree with the part of the article calling the selfie selfish, I just don't see the point. I say that as a teenager who remembers the shift, when my mother got her first real phone, to her pink razor flip phone, her first phone with a mirror on the back to specifically help take selfies. I remember sitting in Washinton DC seeing my first Apple sign for the iPhone 4s and my mother getting one that very same year. I vividly remember a time without the selfie craze as that was half my life at this point, but I am soon going to have that be a small portion of my life as time goes on, something that I don't know if I am ready to accept what we as a society has done. First, we have taken the human aspect out of a conversation and now we hide in our pictures we make as a society, what is next?