Are we giving more importance to selfies than reality?

**Beacon** · 09-13-2018, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Shana

Nowadays, wherever we go, we are so much interested in taking selfies and showing off to the world, than enjoy the experience available in our hands. Selfies are being treated as a necessity even when we don't need it.

It's not important to take a selfie at every precious moment, but we do that. If it's for memories, then fine. But if it's for publicity, then we should be ashamed of ourselves.

What's your opinion on this?

Selfies or any kind of pictures that we are taking is just for memories and of course use this for publicity as well! For an example, You are attending a conference and our H.E president or Malala Yousafzai was there and you have an opportunity to take selfies with them don't you steal the moment? Yes like that!

For me, Selfies are like Autographs, its all depends on the way you take and use it

**Shana** · 09-14-2018, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by Beacon

Selfies or any kind of pictures that we are taking is just for memories and of course use this for publicity as well! For an example, You are attending a conference and our H.E president or Malala Yousafzai was there and you have an opportunity to take selfies with them don't you steal the moment? Yes like that!

For me, Selfies are like Autographs, its all depends on the way you take and use it

Yes, if Malala Yousafzai was there, I would be there in the queue to take a selfie with her of course. But what about those moments which doesn't exactly involve celebrities? What if it's a mountain climbing experience? Would anyone be willing to take selfies on climbing just to show off to the world that they are climbing a mountain? 1 or 2 selfies make sense, but taking 5 dozen selfies spoil the moment in my POV.

Some experiences should be cherished by just us, with our senses, not via the phone camera lens. No one can 100% capture the silence or the noise or the ethereal beauty of nature. That's why we have our senses, but we hardly use that now, instead we go for selfies. At some point, we get confused whether we are doing something for ourselves or for others.

**Bhavya** · 11-08-2019, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by Beacon

Selfies or any kind of pictures that we are taking is just for memories and of course use this for publicity as well! For an example, You are attending a conference and our H.E president or Malala Yousafzai was there and you have an opportunity to take selfies with them don't you steal the moment? Yes like that!

Beacon,

Agree with your point of view photos are like capturing the memories for a lifetime. but nowadays most of the youngsters focus on taking photos than actually enjoying the moment. As you said taking one or two pictures for the memory is fine. The sad thing is our youngsters are not like that so we wish they change their attitude. There is a saying " With whom you have less photos ,you have more memories with them"

For me, Selfies are like Autographs, its all depends on the way you take and use it

True, its all depends on the way how we use things