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The craze for selfies in the modern globalizing world has become a “massive catastrophe.” Today it is difficult to find a person who has not photographed himself and who has not sent his photo at least once on social networks, on forums or chats, “talkers a la Viber or Skype.” For many, taking a selfie is an innocent pastime, for some it is a popular hobby, and there are even those for whom it has become the meaning of life. At the same time, experts have identified selfies as a type of mental disorder. To be precise, according to the officially recognized formulation of the American Psychiatric Association, SELFIE is an obsessive-compulsive disorder characterized by a constant desire to take photographs of oneself and post them on social networks in order to compensate for the lack of self-esteem by gaining a large number of likes (encouragement marks) and make up for the lack of positive emotions. .
Indeed, psychologists claim that with the help of their photos a person can satisfy his psychological hunger in search of self-identification, both in real life and in the virtual space. It is curious that selfies are taken by a person when he lives a beautiful and rich life, rarely when selfies are taken in the unhappy dull moments of his life.

Selfie advocates believe that this is the path to a person’s recovery, accepting oneself with all the shortcomings and flaws, allowing one to live openly and demonstrate oneself. Of course, the growth in popularity of selfies is associated with the information boom, the development of mass media and virtual networks, and mobile technologies. But the deep reason for the obsession with selfies is hidden in human nature itself and there is a completely rational explanation for this.
The need for identity is a specifically human characteristic. An individual’s search for his identity determines his personal multidimensionality, splitting, existential restlessness, and a fundamental “not given” in the world. In this regard, it is appropriate to recall the words of E. Fromm, who noted that “a person is a living being who is aware of himself as an independent entity and is able to say “I.” Unlike an animal, which is “dissolved” in nature, determined by it, does not transcend, does not realize itself, and therefore lacks the need for self-identity, man is torn out of nature, endowed with reason and ideas, he must form an idea of ​​himself, must to be able to say and feel: “I am I.”

Thus, identity is a concept fundamental to human existence. Selfie is an attempt to find your identity, create new images of your personal self, define and redefine an already established opinion about yourself. Thus, by taking a selfie, a person forms a statement about himself. Anthropologist Jennifer Oullett, author of the book “Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self,” considers selfies to be a virtual analogue of material totems in primitive societies. Their goal is to synthesize the inner world with the outer. This is one of the forms of personal performance, a statement of self-identity, an opportunity to “package” yourself and your world into the right wrapper, even if in reality everything is different. But you cannot build a complete picture with spiritual content from the fragmented images of your “I” captured in photographs. “In the world of all-conquering advertising and total marketing, a person begins to consider himself a social commodity, and often without noticing that he is looking for an opportunity to “sell” himself to society.”

It seems that a selfie is not a way of self-construction of one’s “I”, but a method of deconstructing oneself, by “unfolding” oneself into many everyday elusive instant photographs, lost in a series of others. Let us turn to Roland Barthes with his comments on photography in general: “Photography endlessly reproduces what happened only once; it repeats ad infinitum what can never be repeated on an existential plane. An event in it never leads beyond its own limits to something else; photography reduces an ordered totality (corpus) to the body that I see. It represents absolute Unity, sovereign, dull and, as it were, a stupid accident.” In other words, capturing oneself through photography is “a deft dissociation of the consciousness of one’s own identity.”
Selfies teach you a superficial perception of reality. It's not what's inside that matters, but what goes on camera. The event is considered an entourage, recognized to emphasize the act of self-realization. And having become a background, the world becomes devalued. From now on, catastrophe, crime, death are nothing more than scenery for a “successful” photo. There are a significant number of selfies from funerals posted online, but even here the camera focuses the person’s attention on himself. Even more tragic are selfies at the cost of your life - for example, while driving a car and, by terrible accident, shooting yourself with a pistol (hand synchronization worked).
Selfie becomes an opportunity to assert oneself in existence. By constantly being photographed, a person seems to receive a semblance of meaning: to live in order to exist….in the photo! Through selfies, a person tries to gain the confidence that he lacks in the present. But is all this genuine?
It seems that almost all the classics of philosophical thought are devoted to the search for true meanings and the discovery of true being. This is where you should look for answers. Making a short philosophical excursion into the depths of centuries and turning to the German existentialist M. Heidegger, we encounter a detailed analysis of the concept of authentic and inauthentic human existence, a topic that became leading in his work. It is Heidegger who originated the concept of “das Man” (inauthentic being) - alienated human everyday life. This is the space where people are dominated by other people, things, events, where “individuality calms down in idle chatter” (M. Heidegger). In our opinion, when living a selfie, a person resides in Heidegger’s “das Man”, becoming dependent on the opinions of others, those who approve or disapprove through likes of selfie photos in the virtual space.

“In 2015 alone, 50 people died from accidents that occurred while photographing, which is more deaths than from shark attacks.”

It is clear that the hobby of selfies can have completely destructive consequences for the human psyche. How can one not cite as an example the already sensational story about 19-year-old Briton Danny Bowman, who was recognized as the first in his country to suffer from “selfie mania”. Here is his own comment: “...I was on a never-ending quest for the perfect selfie. When I realized that I couldn’t do it, I wanted to die - I lost friends, my health, dropped out of school and almost lost my life.” Thus, for this character, the pursuit of the perfect selfie is a pursuit of false values ​​that have become the true meaning of his existence. Apparently, selfies have more disadvantages than advantages. At the same time, every modern critically thinking person must form a clear attitude towards this phenomenon.

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SELFIE: a disease of the 21st century or global photohysteria? author of the article: LYALYAEVA S.S. , International Institute of Economics and Law

The 21st century is a time of change. If 15 years ago all gadgets were a wonder, now it is difficult to imagine how we will manage without them. How are we now without microwave ovens, toasters, sports equipment, digital cameras or our beloved MP3 players, tablets, computers, and, of course, smartphones?
By the way, the latest invention is being improved the fastest. Mobile phones are improving in all respects: the body is becoming thinner, the phone is lighter, the screen diagonal is wider, the display is brighter, the internal and RAM memory is larger, and the cameras have more megapixels.
This is what has now become a very important detail in a phone for us, because we use the phone’s camera as often as we communicate on it.
If earlier people took photographs when they needed to capture an important moment in life, for example: a family gathering, a reunion, or you went on vacation and you need to photograph a local landmark or a beautiful view, now people take pictures with their phones of everything they see: signs stores with opening hours, the view from the window, pets, food and much more, including themselves.

Literature
1. Wikipedia: selfie history, popularity.
2. Wikipedia: camera.
3. Guinness Book of Records. www.re-actor.net/guinness-world-records.
4. Encyclopedia “Who is who?”

ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS and CONSEQUENCES OF SELFIEMANIA

Everyone has become familiar with the picture of people around them taking pictures of themselves, the surrounding landscape, and dishes in a restaurant. Modern gadgets provide this opportunity - you always have your mobile phone or tablet with you. But there are people who can no longer imagine their life without photos. They don’t let go of the phone and begin to perceive their surroundings through the camera. This behavior indicates the emergence of addiction.

Selfie addiction

In America, this passion was classified as a mental illness. In the post-Soviet space, addiction to selfies is considered an addictive behavior, that is, actions that are constantly repeated and interfere with a person’s personal and social development.
Selfie addiction is a craving for constant photographing of oneself and surrounding objects and phenomena, which disrupts the individual’s inner world and prevents full-fledged interpersonal communication.

Symptoms of addiction

The following are considered signs of self-mania:
- a person takes at least three photographs of himself a day;
- posts these photos on social networks for everyone to see;
- in the future, the person does not look at the photo, it loses its relevance, only the likes and comments are important;
- life-threatening situations arise due to selfies;
- when taking a selfie, a person loses the thread of the conversation with the interlocutor and is constantly distracted;
- there is an aggressive reaction to people’s comments;
- a feeling of loss, internal anxiety, if the phone is low, there is no camera, there is nothing to take pictures with.

Causes
Teenagers are the most susceptible to selfie addiction. This is associated with the formation of the so-called “mirror” or social “I”. This characteristic gives the individual an answer to the question: “How do people around me see me?” The teenager doubts himself, his attractiveness, and seeks confirmation of this. Selfies are a great opportunity to get feedback. But this response is as virtual as the social networks themselves. Due to the possibility of depersonalizing themselves on the Internet, people can simply write negative and rude things, play on feelings, knowing that they will go unpunished.
Most users do not look at photos at all, but like them automatically. The teenager does not yet understand these intricacies, so he quickly falls under the influence of the opinions of social networks.

How to get rid of selfie addiction yourself
However, not all people are ready to go to a psychologist and speak openly about their problem. If selfie addiction has been discovered, you can try and solve the problem yourself. But only a strong-willed and organized person is capable of this.
First of all, you need to put a notepad and pen along with your phone or camera. As soon as you want to take photographs, you should take notes and note what you want to capture, why, and how you feel. It has been proven that such notes allow you to look at the world differently, develop mental processes, and discipline. Usually, after you have written down your feelings, you no longer want to photograph them.
You need to clearly plan your day, stick to a schedule in which you can allocate time for photographs, but know that you can only take one shot. Thanks to this technique, a person develops observation, attention to his life, and selectively relates to what is happening.
A good way to get rid of addiction would be to switch to some active form of recreation, sports, dancing, during which it is impossible to always be with the phone in your hand.
Selfie addiction is the youngest type of addictive behavior, and mainly affects people under 30 years of age. To overcome the painful craving for photography, you need to pay more attention to yourself, plan your day, including mandatory communication with relatives and friends in your routine. The same methods are also useful for preventing self-mania. In addition, understand what this dependence gives, and then choose adequate ways to fulfill your needs.

Oddly enough, some people see the advantages of “selfies”

Knowing yourself. What am I? Who am I? Am I handsome?
Some psychological trainings suggest photographing yourself every day for a year. And then, review your photos, look at yourself from the outside. So, the person comes to understand that perhaps something needs to be changed in his life.
The desire to demonstrate sporting achievements. Well, there’s nothing to say here. Some advantages. In pursuit of the perfect photo, people spend more time in the gym, trying to create an ideal figure and post it online. Of course, striving for an anorexic body type is not a plus.
A way to meet interesting people. Many people note that in this way they met people who brought something good into their lives.
Save photos for archive. Social networks are a great place to store photos from a holiday, party, celebration, travel, etc. Some people think that they are saved better this way than on a computer, which can break down. Help others. Today there are widespread promotions to help other people, where you need to post your photo.

Disadvantages of selfies. Mental personality disorders

Signs of psychological illness

1. Nervous state when you don't get the perfect photo.
2. Self-admiration. Escaping reality. When the album contains more photographs of your loved one than friends and relatives.
3. Hundreds of photographs of yourself on various social networks.
4. Stressful and nervous state when you can’t post your photo online.

It has been determined that...

Women's selfies. For women, the first priority is the demonstration of external data, the second is social life.

Men's selfies. For men it’s exactly the opposite. Social life comes first: his achievements, purchases, travel, cars, meetings with friends and colleagues, restaurants, etc. In second place are external data: a beautiful torso, biceps, a new suit and just facial expressions.

In any case, everyone who uploads their photos online is driven by the desire to gain approval and admiration from others. Of course, “selfism” poses a threat only in advanced cases. As they say: everything is good in moderation.

"The world's obsession with narcissism"

KP correspondent ALEXANDRA LYABIN visiting psychologist ANGELA NIKOLAOU

Selfies are taking over the world. They risk their lives for them. They spend years on them. And why all? Selfies are how we want to see ourselves. And “likes” for them are encouragement. Virtual proof of our attractiveness, originality, success. After all, these are the qualities we usually want to exude when clicking ourselves on camera? You shouldn’t deny it and assure that you are doing “yourself” for no reason. Maybe unconsciously, but you still want to broadcast something with your photographs. Take our test and find out which of the 7 selfie types you belong to and what signal you send to your online friends. Psychologist Angela Nikolaou commented on the characteristics of each type for KP.

- A. Niolaou:“Recently, serious passions have developed over selfies. Psychologists are right there with various theories and explanations: why, how and what exactly happens to those people who “post” photos of themselves with their loved ones. Some explain selfies as an opportunity to express themselves to the world , as belonging to a large information market in which we are one of the details."

Others say that in the world of total social advertising, we ourselves become a social commodity. By packaging ourselves in an attractive package, we “sell” ourselves as a product to society.

Still others explain the selfie phenomenon as a way of humanizing the technoworld with their own photos. This is similar to the trend in the 70s and 80s when truck drivers decorated their cabs with photos of girls.

Still others interpret selfies as a call for communication, which occurs more simply and easily by posting images rather than text. In a chat it is more difficult to convey an emotion using an emoticon, but on Instagram a live face with a real emotion is immediately clear.

Still others classify selfies as a psychological disorder (obsessive-compulsive disorder).

Speaking about selfies, I would like to note, first of all, that this is a fashion trend that originated from the desire of famous people to increase interest in their person. And thereby increase the popularity rating.

Ordinary mortals have come closer to celebrities with the help of smartphones and social networks. This is a kind of compensatory mechanism: I haven’t achieved very much in my life, but just like celebrities, I attract the attention of my friends and acquaintances, they give me “likes.” The more likes, the more visible I am, which means I am also a kind of celebrity. ( Attention, below is the photo Global look press, 18+)

Fashion is a strange and inconsistent thing. I remember there was a time when young men would walk around with rats on their shoulders, trying to attract the attention of girls. Now these are dogs that perform the same function of attracting attention. I remember there were tape recorders with which they walked around the city (for blacks this was expressed grotesquely: very large tape recorders and very loud music), dancing to the beat of the music coming from the speakers.

Fashion, as we know, is transitory. The need for selfies will pass and people will return to the need for public reflection.

If we analyze the selfie photo, we can highlight the common features:

Firstly, they can be done by young people (usually girls, with silicone lips, breasts, butts, cheeks; extended eyelashes, hair, nails; with faces not disfigured by intelligence and with a bored expression), who try to indicate their importance in any way.

Secondly, these are young girls and boys who are in search of themselves. They are concerned with creating a “false image” of themselves through specially selected photographs. The image of oneself is formed and changes throughout life. It is compiled from the opinions of people close to us, from viewing our photos and from observing ourselves in the mirror. We are used to seeing ourselves in the mirror every day, but psychologists have proven that when we look in the mirror, we transform our appearance: we straighten our posture, take on a positive facial expression, thereby getting used to a more “white and fluffy” self. Those. we try to look more attractive in our own eyes. The same thing happens with selfies as with a mirror: we photograph ourselves from a point of view that we like and that, in our opinion, shows us in a favorable light. This is an infantile reaction: I am what they want me to be. I do not accept myself as someone who does not correspond to the virtual image of my loved one. But this image of the “false self” hinders the process of development of the real personality.

Thirdly, many selfies show narcissism, self-indulgence of the “narcissist” and vanity. It feels like a desperate attempt to expose the contents of your world in the hope that it will be approved and appreciated. This is a desperate call: “Look at me! I'm here! I need your attention! This is an attempt to improve your self-esteem.

People have stopped photographing the world that serves as their backdrop. Feeling their insignificance, they are increasingly obsessed with narcissism.

There are many types of this hobby:
- relfi- photo with your loved one;
- liftlook- frame in the elevator mirror;
- duckface- “duck face”, used by girls, protruding their lips;
- shufiz- feet in shoes on a different background;
- extreme selfie - when engaging in extreme sports or in dangerous situations (on the edge of a roof, cliff).
There are other types of self-photos that depend on the situations and nature of the shoot. To stand out and attract attention, they appear selfie monster (imagining oneself as a monster) Scotch bow(image with a face covered with tape). What causes the increased interest in such a pastime, why does a painful craving for it arise, the so-called selfie mania, and how to get rid of it?

DETAILS of the main selfie types

① "Sexy selfies"

② "Sweet selfies"

We bet you are a very sweet girl! “Nyashny” - how fashionable it is to say now. Your Instagram will probably contain touching selfies with pets, “cute” morning photos in bed with a fist in front of your eyes, romantic pictures with your significant other... All this, of course, is wonderful. But sometimes your photo feed may seem to your friends not even “sweet”, but already “sweetening” with all its “cuteness”. Maybe occasionally it’s worth refraining from taking another photo with the “poofy” Murzik?

If there are too many such pictures, the psychologist’s comment: - You are still infantile and dependent on adults. Your parents or boyfriends pay your bills. You believe that your mere presence should make everyone present happy and make them smile with tenderness. However, do not forget that children are not only charming creatures, but also hysterical creatures, skillfully manipulating and achieving their goals at any cost.

③ "Housewife selfie"

Surely you are a wonderful housewife! The house is a full cup. The family is a sight for sore eyes. And you consider it necessary to tell everyone about your well-being. About the fact that you have succeeded as a woman. About the fact that “family is the most important thing in life.” And that in the kitchen can be no less interesting than at some boring scientific conference. Perhaps this is all true. And your online friends are probably happy for you. But just admit it to yourself - why do you need all these selfies with pots, diapers, and an iron? Maybe you want to show someone something? Something to prove? Then is everything really so rosy for you?

If there are too many such photographs, the psychologist’s comment: - I’m fine. Husband. Child. House. Look, envy me, I am a wife, my mother is a housewife. But sometimes what is desired does not correspond to reality. And happy “housewife selfies” are an opportunity to once again convince yourself that things are no worse than others. And it doesn’t matter that your husband often doesn’t spend the night at home, and you spend your holidays with your children alone, even in Mallorca...

④ “Selfie of the Lonely Ones”

Let us guess? You adore your friends! So? You have a lot of them, and you like to spend as much time with them as possible. This is wonderful: true friends are a great rarity and a great joy. You are not shy about showing your love for your friends to the whole world. And you take pictures with the company every time you meet. Friendship is your pride, that's understandable. But it is important not to overdo it with such pictures. Otherwise, your online friends may see them as bragging.

If there are too many such selfies, a psychologist’s comment: “Don’t have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends” - a truth that no one has canceled. Showing others how good you are at having a good time and having fun is awesome. These photographs seem to tell those outside the frame that they were left behind, and you were chosen to join the team. Don't forget that this is not a permanent team and tomorrow you will be the one who automatically likes those who are having fun without you.

⑤ "Creative selfies"

If there are a lot of such photographs, the psychologist’s comment: - Such selfies can be called the first attempt at creativity, entry-level creativity. There is a theme, an expression, an idea, an implementation. But maybe try to concentrate not on your body parts, but on the events of social life? You definitely have potential.

⑥ "Philosophical selfie"

You like to be mysterious. I like to emphasize my mental abilities. And your intellectual passions. You think that the signature is more important than the photo. Moreover, you prefer signatures of a philosophical nature. Or these are quotes from great people. Or your own thoughts “about high things”. I think there are quite a few photos on your Instagram without a smile. Or in profile. Most likely, you prefer black and white photos. Or retro effects.

If there are a lot of such photographs, the psychologist’s comment: - What does the girl want to say with these photos? I am not only beautiful and athletic, but also smart. Sometimes I can be sad. True, not for long, because it “loads” me. Good quotes - yes, Google works wonders. Why not try yourself in a different role, role... “The whole world is a theater. There are women, men - all actors. They have their own exits and departures, and each plays more than one role.” Now I’ll see who said it - and on Instagram!

⑦ “Selfie of a tourist”

It is unlikely that you are “sinning” by taking 10 selfies a day. Well, at least not all year round. You only get hooked on selfies on vacation or on a business trip. In general, when you find yourself in some interesting place. Here you are photographing yourself against the background of the Eiffel Tower, here against the backdrop of Big Ben. But you are picking potatoes in Belarus (there are different holidays, yes). Those. There are no “blank” selfies in your bathroom mirror on your Instagram. You only post pictures that you think will be of interest to your friend zone. And many people really “like” these photographs. But... is it sincere? Do you believe that all 100 people who liked you from stuffy offices in Moscow are sincerely happy about the tenth photo of your contented face in the Maldives? With your tourist happiness, you need to know when to stop.

If there are too many such pictures, a comment from a psychologist: - Selfies from vacation are often another opportunity to show your status, your success. You can afford to travel, but why are you alone? Wasn’t there a single person who could photograph you? Or is it a lonely journey? But why?

Excerpt from Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451: “Everyone should leave something behind. A son, or a book, or a painting, a house you built, or at least a wall built from brick, or a pair of shoes you sewed, or a garden planted by your hands. Something that your fingers touched during life, in which your soul will find refuge after death. People will look at the tree or flower you have grown, and at that moment you will be alive.

It doesn’t matter what exactly you do, it’s important that everything you touch changes shape, becomes different from before, so that a part of you remains in it. This is the difference between a person who simply cuts the grass on the lawn and a real gardener, my grandfather told me. “The first one will pass, and it will no longer exist, but the gardener will live for more than one generation.”

What will selfies tell future generations about us? We don’t know about you, but our studio’s opinion is: “it’s wildly offensive and humiliating to leave behind the “selfie bustle of a certain category of people” a shameful description of the spiritual emptiness and degradation of human development.”

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Psychiatrists have recognized it as a disease and are increasingly sounding the alarm, fearing for the health of extreme selfies. Their race for spectacular photos increasingly ends in tragedy, and the memorable photo becomes the last in their lives.

The price of happiness

Huge opportunities opened up for selfie lovers when mobile phones with a built-in camera became widely available. The term “selfie” comes from the English word self, which means “oneself”, “oneself”. A slang word, like a knife through butter, has entered many languages, including our great and mighty one.

For the convenience of lovers of these self-portraits, special rods approximately 70 centimeters long have been invented on which the gadget is attached, which allows you to significantly expand the viewing angle.

Photos with famous actors, politicians, and athletes are especially popular among selfie lovers. Selfie addicts can wait for years and travel great distances to photograph themselves next to a smiling celebrity. American Samantha McKinroe spent a whole year chasing her idol Leonardo DiCaprio around the world, wanting to take a photo with him. Imagine her happiness when, at the next film festival in Cannes, she managed to get closer to Leonardo and literally beg for the opportunity to take a photo together... Such shots become a source of pride and often arouse the envy of friends and acquaintances.

The stars themselves encourage selfie-takers when they agree to pose and smile moments before pressing the button.

At first, selfies were purely youth fun, but over time, people of older generations also became interested in self-portraiting, posting interesting (and not so interesting) photos on their blogs, thereby unwittingly popularizing a new hobby. Among the avid selfie lovers are the controversial Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi and the famous Hollywood actor Robert De Niro. They love to photograph themselves with fans and admirers.

These photos boost my self-esteem! - admitted De Niro.

Gadget substitute

American psychiatrist John Gurvich believes that self-mania allows the average person to significantly increase their importance and self-esteem. In his opinion, this disease of the 21st century is extremely contagious and develops in three stages. At the first stage, the selfie takes up to two photos a day, but does not publish them anywhere. At the second stage, he begins to share photos with friends and acquaintances on social networks, and can do this up to five times a day. At the last stage, he publishes ten or more pictures per day, as they appear. Especially attractive for selfies are likes on the photos they post on social networks. Psychiatrists consider an alarming symptom to be the depression of selfies due to lack of likes and their feeling of superiority over others when there are a lot of notorious likes. If they consider them the only measure of their success in life, then this is already a reason to contact a psychiatrist.

In the USA, courses have even appeared where avid self-addicts are treated with the help of special trainings and even hypnotic sessions.

Technicians are also not aloof from the problem of self-mania. Thus, the famous designer Clemens Schillinger managed to invent and create a hybrid of a smartphone, a rosary and a spinner. He called it Substitute Phone, that is, a “smartphone substitute” for those who are especially addicted.

The device is a piece of dense plastic that matches the size and weight of a modern smartphone. Marble balls are placed in the recess of this pseudo-mobile, and by sliding a finger over them the user receives sensations similar to the touch control of a smartphone.

Schilinger presented several Substitute Phone models at once: for users who prefer to move their finger vertically, horizontally and diagonally across the screen. According to the inventor, “this device should help overcome smartphone addiction and cope with stress when a mobile device is not at hand.”

In the mouth of a shark

Unfortunately, the hunt for spectacular selfies has recently increasingly gone beyond the bounds of reason.

Social media is filled with photos and clips that have led to the deaths of adrenaline junkies. Here a Russian tourist in Mexico leans out through the lowered side window of a furiously racing car, presses the button on her gadget, but the next moment, unnoticed by either the desperate girl or the careless driver, a road sign located on the side of the highway literally blows off the girl’s head, and the windows of the continuing race The Mercedes are sprinkled with splashes of scarlet blood.

But another desperate Russian in a hot exotic country dived to take a selfie with a white shark (the coastal waters are teeming with these bloodthirsty predators). The last thing his expensive smartphone managed to capture was a giant shark’s mouth, studded with sharp teeth. The next moment, the sea predator literally tore the careless extreme sports enthusiast to pieces. His comrades caught his hand, as if cut off by a razor with the teeth of a predator. A cell phone was clutched in his fist.

Another selfie climbed onto an unfinished abandoned high-rise building on the outskirts of Moscow. Obviously, the investor had a problem with finances, so the high-rise building remained standing as a monument to the insoluble problems of a tough market era. The unguarded building was chosen by lovers of stunning selfies. One of them decided to capture his beloved self against the backdrop of the city spread out in the distance, stepped onto a narrow metal beam, walked to its end and, smiling broadly, pressed the button on his smartphone. But the next moment, a strong gust of wind literally blew the extreme sportsman off the flimsy support, and he flew down. His friends called an ambulance, but the arriving doctors could only confirm the death of the reckless guy.

Suicidal hookers

It would seem that life in a metropolis offers young people regular doses of dangerous adrenaline: intense road traffic, sections of various martial arts, and finally, icicles regularly falling from roofs... But this is not enough for selfie lovers. They risk their lives by riding on the roofs of electric and metro trains. It is considered especially chic to capture your prowess on camera. These extreme sports enthusiasts call themselves “hooks,” but another term is much more suitable for them - “suicidal people,” because the suicidal stunts they perform often lead to terrible injuries, or even martyrdom.

An attempt to photograph himself on the roof of a Moscow metro train led to the death of a young man. When the next train stopped at the platform, onlookers instantly gathered around it - a crippled guy was lying on the connecting “accordion” between the cars, and there were blood splashes on the roof and windows of the car.

The train driver called the police, and station employees came running. Together they removed the corpse. The guy's bones were broken, half of his skull was blown off. They announced over the loudspeaker that the train would not go further for technical reasons.

Tears and stress

As I write these lines, I remember a “cool” video from the Internet. A sneaky guy with eyes burning with excitement runs, waving his smartphone, after the departing train and, in a frantic jerk, hangs on the mirror of the last car. Meanwhile, the train picks up speed, and the hook hangs, absurdly moving its legs in the air, trying in vain to find support. In this case, the mirror holder treacherously bends. Whether the extreme sportsman falls under the wheels or hangs on until the next station and manages to take a selfie remains a mystery.

A reasonable question arises: why did the above-mentioned selfie lovers risk their lives? Often in order to post a photo or video on your page on social networks and get likes from the same selfies.

It turns out that for them the notorious like is a source of pride, an element of prestige, a sign of respect. This warms them, inspires them and pushes them to new “feats.” At the same time, they do not think about what feelings their relatives and friends experience if such a lover of adrenaline attacks suffers a tragedy.

The older brother of the guy who fell from the high-rise admitted:

I knew about his hobby, saw some of his desperate photographs, persuaded him to give up risky adventures, but in response he only chuckled and said: “Old man, you cannot understand this, you have not experienced a fantastic drive from the fact that you did what others - cautious, prudent, cautious, living according to the laws of society - cannot do it.”

This is how the desire to stand out, to show off your desperate courage has led to the death of thousands of selfies all over the world over the past five years.

What is the most popular word in the world? The English think the word is “selfie”! Anyone interested can read about it in the Oxford Dictionary. The Internet did not appear yesterday, many years have passed, so the word has acquired various derivatives...

Statistics show that more than 2.5 million selfies are taken in just a minute in the world. The number of phones that allow you to take such photos is constantly increasing, and the production of selfies is growing exponentially.

– Scientists are researching and trying to understand whether self-mania exists? People can't stop themselves from constantly posting their photos online. Some assert themselves, others try to get rid of uncertainty.

– According to estimates, about 50% of all adults have taken a selfie at least once in their lives, about 40% of young people surveyed take selfies regularly (at least once a week).

– Gyms, fitting rooms and beaches are the subjects of the most popular photographs. However, this is within 5% of all selfies that turned into social media posts. Selfies with other people are no less popular. Food, pets and nature remain very popular.

– Women here have taken the palm from men, which is logical. Selfies are more interesting for social network visitors than regular photos.

– Heated discussions are caused by selfies taken in an inappropriate place (cemetery, Auschwitz).

In Australian English there is a tendency to form words with the suffix “-ie”, giving words an informal connotation.

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For example, "barbie" instead of "barbecue", "firie" instead of "firefighter", "tinnie" instead of "tin" for a metal can of beer. It was in Australia that the word “selfie” appeared, and its first use on the Internet was recorded back in 2002.

Although the widespread dissemination of the term “selfie”, first in the English-speaking world, and then in other countries, did not happen until ten years later.

– There are two versions of the question of who took the first selfie. It was either Robert Cornelius (1839), or she successfully pointed her camera at the mirror, opposite which Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna herself stood (1914).

– The Eiffel Tower background was the most popular in 2014. Time magazine thinks so.

Every day it becomes more and more difficult to surprise friends on social networks with an unusual selfie. But people constantly fill their profiles with colorful photos that speak of fun and memorable moments in their lives. A selfie truly conveys a person’s emotions and the world around them at the same time. Often they are identical, sometimes contrasting.

According to photographers, selfies have become a special type of photography. Various festivals, competitions and exhibitions of similar works are held. The popular hobby of selfie photography has turned into a real competition for the craziest and most extreme selfshots. Users of social networks compete in resourcefulness, courage and madness.

Psychology of selfie or Selfiemania as a disease of the 21st century

News feeds are full of photographs of friends and acquaintances. Some people manage to post dozens of pieces a day just for themselves. It’s more interesting to watch photographs of people traveling, there’s at least some variety there.

Have you ever wondered if it's a disease to constantly post photos of yourself?

Modern psychology follows closely fashion, modern trends and new disorders of the human psyche. Of course, the love for “selfies” has not escaped the attention of psychologists.

Today we will talk about the psychological characteristics of people who are passionate about selfies. So, the psychology of selfies. Selfie is a disease of the 21st century.

“Selfism” allows you to identify several psychological problems of an individual.

Selfie (from English self - “oneself”), or “self-love” or narcissism. Excessive narcissism leads to the development of a narcissistic personality type, when a person is unable to love anyone but himself.

Women's selfies. For women, the first priority is to demonstrate external data, the second is social life.

Men's selfies. For men it’s exactly the opposite. Social life comes first: his achievements, purchases, travel, cars, meetings with friends and colleagues, restaurants, etc. In second place are external data: a beautiful torso, biceps, a new suit and just facial expressions.

In any case, everyone who uploads their photos online is driven by the desire to gain approval and admiration from others. “Selfism” poses a threat only in advanced cases. As they say: everything is good in moderation.

Selfie syndrome. IS SELFIE A BAD HABIT OR MENTAL ILLNESS?

Selfie(English) "selfie" from “self” - oneself, oneself, names are also found selfie, crossbow) is a type of self-portrait that involves capturing yourself on a camera, sometimes using a mirror, a cord or a timer.

The term gained popularity in the late 2000s and early 2010s due to the development of built-in camera functions in mobile devices.

Since selfies are most often taken at arm's length holding the device, the image in the photo has a characteristic angle and composition - at an angle, slightly above or below the head

Selfie addiction is officially recognized as a mental disorder. Scientists from the American Psychiatric Association came to this conclusion, reports a publication that specializes in “incredible” news.

The association, according to the publication, presented a classification of a new disease called selfies in Chicago.

Thus, selfies are defined as an obsessive-compulsive disorder characterized by a constant desire to take photographs of oneself and post them on social networks in order to compensate for a lack of self-esteem.

The note notes that there is currently no cure for selfies. However, one of the users of the Global Trend News portal, commenting on this news, proposed his own solution to the problem: simply destroy the mobile phone.

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Psychologist's opinion:

Selfies have gained immense popularity recently. Now they not only stare from the pages of social networks, but often appear on advertising posters and force people to talk about themselves on television.

All this looks like an outbreak of a disease and, perhaps, every modern person has formed a clear attitude towards this phenomenon. Someone got infected and doesn’t post their self-portraits only when they’re sleeping.

And there are those who are disgusted by the influx of this kind of creativity.

The epidemic began after actress and presenter Ellen DeGeneres and actor Bradley Cooper took a selfie at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony, in which they were captured in the company of many Hollywood stars.

Oscar is an event for which they prepare for months: the stars, in tandem with their stylists, carefully select an image, order outfits from famous couturiers, make all kinds of braces, and even get special injections so as not to sweat, since during many hours of filming they are forced to be under spotlights The ceremony is the quintessence of human striving for an ideal.

A few years ago, a new word “selfie” came into the everyday life of modern people - photographing oneself. People take pictures of their faces and body parts and then post them on the Internet.

Causes

Main causes of addiction:

1. Low self-esteem, lack of attention. By taking photos, selfie addicts try to express themselves, to prove that they are no worse than others. Approval and recognition only strengthen the desire to do it more often and improve your skills.
2. Lack of communication. Due to the lack of live communication, teenagers go into the virtual world and find a circle of friends there, exchanging likes and comments.
3. Diffidence. This is often characteristic of teenage girls. Dissatisfaction with their own appearance and attractiveness makes them avoid face-to-face communication. They prefer to take selfies, because there is always the opportunity to remove any flaws in appearance using Photoshop.
4. Problems in your personal life. If there is no support and understanding in the family, then people look for it on social networks. By taking various pictures, they try to show their feelings, find compassion, or forget for a while.

Most often, schoolchildren, students, and adults become victims of self-mania. The latter may be subject to pressure at work and uncertainty about their status. Desires to gain recognition and be no worse than other people turn into obsessions and actions.

Stages of addiction

In addition to the main reasons, there are also individual cases: envy, desire for revenge, ridicule. Experts call selfie mania a disease of the 21st century. The International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction has identified 3 stages of selfism:

1. Primary stage. The owner of the camera takes about three pictures of himself a day, stores them, but does not publish them online until a certain time.
2. Acute stage. The shots taken are posted on Internet sites. The level of attention to them is monitored very carefully and carefully. The author of photo cards monitors the number of likes and comments on his publications.
3. Chronic stage. An uncontrollable desire to constantly take pictures, post them on social networks and worry about their fate. Such a person is capable of taking about 50 selfies a day, changing angles, facial expressions and images.

Symptoms

In order to correctly recognize at what stage of the disease a person is, it is worth observing him. With the help of mirrors, people take pictures in all the places where they are present. There is an exposure of one's personal life. Gradually, photos appear in the bedroom, in the bathroom, in the elevator, at work or in a restaurant.

Having caught a successful shot, the camera owner hurries to post it on his page and expects the coveted positive comments and ratings. These actions are repeated day after day.

There is narcissistic personality disorder. This is a condition in which a person is only interested in increasing the degree of narcissism. Taking various selfies, even in extreme conditions, with the sole purpose of capturing yourself against the backdrop of some landmark, soon becomes an obsessive need.

By exposing their lives to the public, selfie addicts face disapproving criticism and ridicule. At first there is a feeling of anxiety, dissatisfaction with one’s appearance and surroundings. Such a person feels depressed and develops depression against the background of deep emotions.

The disease of the 21st century has the following manifestations:

• It happens that you want to take a photo, but your phone is not at hand or is empty, which causes a feeling of anxiety and loss;
• during live communication, the meaning of the conversation is lost, because the person is busy looking for a better angle;
• there is an aggressive reaction to comments under your photos on social networks;
• the owner of the camera no longer monitors the quality of his photographs; all that is important to him is good reviews about them and distribution on the Internet;
• mass thoughtless photographing of one’s personality and display of even intimate things.

Gradually, demands on oneself increase, a desire arises to take better quality shots, and dissatisfaction with one’s appearance and photos develops. After a series of unsuccessful photos, the patient’s lifestyle becomes destructive and meaningless. Doctors say that this behavior indicates the presence of a mental disorder.

Types of selfies

Today there are more than 20 types of selfies, the main of which are:

1. Liftoluk is a passion for photographing in elevators. Thanks to the mirrors inside the cabin, people can quickly take a photo while the elevator moves to the desired floor.
2. Duckface (duck selfie) - a photo with lips imitating a kiss. Girls suffer from this most often.
3. Hobbies: self-portrait photography with a guy or girl.
4. Belfie - photographing the butt from the most favorable angles.
5. Bath or toilet look - capturing yourself after wet procedures.
6. Shoes Selfie (shufis) - photographing your feet or shoes in various landscapes.

Improvements in mobile devices make it possible to come up with a variety of filming formats. Communication between people goes into the category of “look - evaluate”.

Consequences

Selfie mania, as a disease of the 21st century or a way of self-expression, is fraught with danger. To get an original shot, adults and children take dangerous selfies.

Doctors are concerned about the possible consequences of self-addiction:

1. People are distracted from important matters.
2. A reflex occurs when hands involuntarily reach for the camera, bypassing thought processes.
3. Speech degradation occurs in the absence of real communication. There is an automatic viewing of photos, without any emotions.
4. A person cannot overcome the disease on his own.

When the problem is realized, anger and uncontrollable aggression appears towards others and towards the one who pointed out this fact. Serious mental disorders may develop.

Treatment options

There is no universal way to treat such addiction. If a patient turns to a psychologist for help, then the doctor’s main task is to find the reasons and find out when the disease began. The patient can undergo individual or group consultations if desired.

Experts teach:

• get distracted from your mobile phone;
• find a new hobby;
• spend more time outside, with friends and actively communicate with family;
• make new friends.

You can try to fight this bad habit on your own. When you want to take a photo, it’s better to take a notebook, write down your feelings at that moment, or call someone you know. It is necessary to make a to-do list for the day and indicate in it the moment when you can take one shot. Registration for any sport is welcome: fitness, dancing, football or swimming. This will bring much more benefits and will keep you in good shape.

Conclusion

Selfie addiction has become one of the most common problems among people. The disease can lead to mental disorders, so at the first signs it is better to seek help from a specialist.

The selfie culture has emerged relatively recently, but selfies quickly gained wild popularity among the public masses, especially among young people from 15 to 30 years old.

Today, every young person has profiles on various social networks, and exposing his life to public display does not raise any questions among young people. One of the components of communication has become selfie, which is a type of self-portrait.

Selfies have become especially popular since 2010, when mobile phones began to acquire front cameras with acceptable resolution. In most cases, photographs are taken at arm's length, however, modern technologies make it possible to take photographs in almost full height and from different angles, thanks to special devices - monopods or selfie sticks, as well as using wide-format lenses built into phones or having special fasteners to the front camera of your phone or smartphone.

What's the problem?

The catch lies not in technology, but in people and their specific predispositions. In the modern world, narcissism takes on a completely new look, helped in this by the latest multimedia and social technologies. News feeds are literally drowning in self-portraits taken with selfie cameras. You can often meet people who flood the news feed with their own pictures, like spam.

Unfortunately, self-mania has not yet been officially included in the list of diseases; however, the inclusion of self-mania as a deviation from the norm is now being actively considered in psychiatric practice. Most experts in the field of psychology and psychiatry agree that daily selfies and their publication are not a normal state of mind.

The line between normality and pathology

Research has not revealed the exact boundary between normal behavior of people on social networks and pathology, however, despite the lack of standards, we can confidently talk about the presence of such a problem as self-mania.

For example, constant publication of selfies by people engaged in the field of show business and information media is not a deviation, since such publications are part of their earnings. In this case, selfie photographs, published even with enviable regularity, cannot be considered as selfie mania. But if a person whose publicity is not part of his job posts his own pictures on the Internet every day, in this case we can already say that the situation is abnormal.

Development of addiction

The mechanism of development of selfie addiction is currently only being studied, however, it is already possible to accurately identify the characteristic stages of the progression of such a pathological condition as selfie mania. It all starts with the formation of a strong interest in social networks, with spending more and more time on them. A person creates accounts on various social networks and information portals.

The next stage in the development of the disease is filling out your own profiles with content, including pictures taken using the front camera. Most selfie-addicted people begin to develop obsessive thoughts related to the need for constant publications. For people with selfie addiction, the easiest and most natural way to create content is to use pictures of themselves, and the selfie addict begins to feed their own narcissistic and selfish personality traits. The formation of obsessive thoughts makes selfie mania similar to psychiatric diseases such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

Features of selfie addicts

In people suffering from self-mania, you can notice some features:

such people have few friends and acquaintances;

the range of interests is quite narrow;

the time devoted to interests far exceeds reasonable limits.

Another feature is the dependence of the emotional state on the number of views of one’s own publications and the number of “likes”. A set of a satisfactory number of views, comments and “likes” forms a strong habit of taking more and more selfie pictures with subsequent publication on social networks. The situation is aggravated by the presence of a large number of accounts, which require a significant amount of time for the dependent person to fill out.

How to prevent selfie mania

Since selfie addiction is not currently a full-fledged disease, treatment standards have not been developed, but many specialists - psychotherapists and psychiatrists - have already begun to treat this pathology. In most cases, a person can cope with the problem of selfie addiction on their own; in more severe cases, the help of a psychotherapist is required. There is no drug treatment for self-mania, since this condition is a mild form of addiction.

To combat this type of addiction, it is enough to change your lifestyle and increase your sociability in communicating with real people. Occupational therapy and diversification also show excellent results.