Selfies have taken over all kinds of social media.
We have idealized that our faces and how we look mean more than what we have to say. Posting a cute selfie or having a witty caption means more to the generation of today than what is on the inside. We care more about getting likes on a selfie than what someone thinks about the world news. Posts on social media get more attention than hard hitting news because we are a generation who loves ourselves.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but how many likes can your selfie get? Teenagers are generally very self-centered and selfies highlight that we are the generation of “me”. The generation of look at me, look at all the fun I am having. We, as a generation, live life through our phones and the screens on our devices.
When we go to a concert, or a movie our devices are right by our sides providing a quick escape from the world around us. When kids go to a concert, they live it through their phones; taking pictures, video, tweeting their experience to their friends because they want everyone to know, “Hey, we are doing this really cool thing right now and what are you doing that is super amazing like what I am doing right now?”
Selfies capture how our generation wants to make it all about us. Guess what? No one cares about you, or your face. We all want to be accepted by our peers, but is taking pictures of your face and putting it on social media really the way you want to go about it?
Everyone is so focused on themselves that no one has time to worry about how you look in your picture, or whether or not you have a new zit, or if your outfit is “on point”.
People, especially kids, are more worried about how they appear to you than they are about how you appear to them. We are so focused on ourselves that we forget to look at and see other people. We should try to teach kids to not judge people based on their appearance or whether or not they look trashy in a picture. We need to look at people for their actions, not what they appear to be physically.
We get it, you want to keep in touch with your friends and whatever, but just think about why you are taking a selfie next time you pull out your phone.
Photos and videos commemorate great moments in our lives and can bring back fond memories when we are older, but we should be wise about what we want to commemorate to our archive of memories.
It would be very hard to remember anything if you had a thousand pictures of just your face and no context of what was going on in the picture. It is great to take pictures and create memories and share them, but no one wants to know about your “# no filter” picture. We all know you spent way too long trying to find the right lighting and what not to make your skin look “on fleek”.
There are more important things than your selfie absorbed life.