Are You After The Ultimate Selfie?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34466322
It seems there are more deaths by selfie than by shark attack!

[jno]

people photographing themselves while pulling the pin of a hand grenade? That isn't death by selfie, it's death by stupidity. All the camera does is give you the chance to record your stupidity for generations to come.

[ToraToraTora]

another branch of the darwin awards then jno.

[Hopkirk]

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/10/20/man-attempting-selfie-on-live-tv-falls-into-the-sea/

[andy-hughes]

Fascinating!

Speaking as someone who has only ever taken one photograph with a mobile phone - and that was of a piece of art work to illustrate the frame for a picture framer - I have never understood the fascination with constant mobile phone photography - much less the ubiquitous 'selfie'.

I have never willingly had my photograph taken in my life - so the notion of constantly photographing myself and putting the results on the internet appeals about as much as root canal surgery without anaesthetic!

That said, I do find the notion interesting - and the link between excessive self-aggrandisement in this way, and narcissism / psychopathy is very interesting.

I wonder if Ted Bundy - a very photogenic person - would have entered the selfie boom if the technology had been available when he was alive?

[Hopkirk]

I suppose it is the modern equivalent of writing a post card.

[jno]

...while strolling across the M25

[Hopkirk]

.. or the M1 jno

http://dailypicksandflicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/man-ironing-on-M1.jpg

[jno]

I guess so, TTT, only it's recorded for posterity, so it may provide instruction for future generations.

[ToraToraTora]

yes jno, but it also has the added benefit of removing a stupid gene from the gene pool.

[youngmafbog]

Only if they have not already bred though TTT