Why is it that older women have to put their mug in every picture? My wife’s 65 yo cousin came to visit. Took her to P’beach. Lovely scene, perfect weather, near sunset. Could take a few keepers, but NOoo. She walks down to the surf line and holds up the phone, slowly rotating. She was taking a 360 video of herself with the beach and surf as a background! Sheesh. When she flew back, I asked her to notice the bars at Pensacola airport that my son built. She sent me a selfie with a partial fuzzy of one of the bars in the background.

When we visited my wife’s sister I related this episode to her and asked what she thinks of this practice. Wrong question to ask. She whips out her iPhone 7 and flashes me with selfie after selfie she has taken on her trips abroad. Ask her why selfies; she explains that it makes the memory more intense. Can they not remember who took the picture?

I say this is vanity run amuck. I suppose they still see themselves in their deluded mind's eye; a cute teenager.

Question:
Do you take selfies?

Choices:
Yes, because I love my face.
Yes, because I can't remember where I was yesterday.
Yes, just because I can.
I would, but don't know how. Could you post instructions?
No. Vanity run amuck

 

Around here, young to middle aged women seem to love the shit out of themselves.

I take lots of photos. Since I know what I look like, my pictures are to document my travels. I don't appear in any of them.

Mike

It's a sign of mental illness.

It is a VERY rare occurrence for me.

I don't take selfies, but I'll admit to being a bit of a picture whore.

I tend to photo-document a project at the least hint of an excuse and then post pictures of it all over the innerwebz to show what a clever guy I am.

Same sickness, different symptoms I suspect.

Zero in 2017 and a couple in 2016.

When I was in Italy in '15, we had a single Mom in our tour group who had a $300 selfie stick and took dozens and dozens per day. She would be the last one boarding the train, bus, etc. because she was taking a damn selfie. A few times we waited for the next one so she didn't get left behind. Annoying to put it mildly.

There are more pictures of me on drivers licenses and military ID cards than of all other pictures of me combined.

I have a mirror in each bathroom, and one on the dresser and that's it.

Have never felt the need to take pics of myself or be included in them.

Spent most of my life anonymously. And serious as I can be; people here know more about me that anyone else in the world, and most of them combined.

And it took effort.

So, no selfies.

And I don't think I understand the "selfie" crowd.

I have a smartphone. I take a lot of pictures with it. Never one of myself. Just seems weird to me.

I've done it a few times, but it was usually at the request of someone for me to send them a photo of me doing whatever interesting thing I happened to be doing at the time. Last one was of a young man and I at a Thunderbirds air show. Got the Thunderbirds flying overhead between us.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
It's a sign of mental illness.

Good to know.


I do take a fair number, for a variety of reasons. I live alone and have very limited social interaction outside of work nowadays. I have a few 'friends' still in CT or still deployed and we'll swap pics periodically.

Also living along/being single/etc, there are NO pictures of me that I have not taken myself. I've always found it interesting to look at pictures through the years. You see a lot over time that you might otherwise miss.

I look a picture of me when I was 19, just prior to my enlistment next a picture of me now, 8 years and A LOT of experience later. I have a few added scars, but physically haven't changed all that much, and yet you can see a complete difference.

Another reason is that growing up I always loved seeing pictures of my parents, my grandparents, even great-grandparents, when they were younger. My life the way it is, those pictures won't exist of me unless I take them myself. If I ever have kids, grandkids, etc, who knows if they'd have that same interest I do, but I'd like them to have that chance.

Like I said, I find it all interesting.

Does it count if I'm using myself to practice different studio lighting techniques? It's not so much due to vanity in my bare and more about mastering my photography equipment without bothering anybody else or the dogs lol.

Keep them to yourself, no one else wants to see them --

Study: people don't actually like looking at selfies

Took my first selfie 2 weeks ago.

But it was in response to a text from an out of state friend who offered to fly in and help remove snow from the massive storm predicted to hit NJ a few days later.

As I was in Cabos, Mexico at the time, it seemed appropriate to send him a selfie displaying the view of the fairway and ocean beyond from my balcony.

Don't anticipate sending many more in my lifetime...

No, I don't take selfies.

It's certainly not just older women; I've seen every demographic doing it.

I took one once for my mother, last year. My wife and I had to work together to figure out how to make the phone take one. After I wondered why I hadn't just had my wife take the damn picture.

Been using a smartphone for several years now and have not once taken a photo of myself. Never. I have taken a fair amount of photos with my Samsung S7 because it is an excellent little camera, hell I stopped using my scanner because the phone does a great job with most of my documents also. But not once have I extended my arm and stupidly smiled at my phone. Like sigmonkey, I really do not understand it at all.

Although I don't particularly want to photograph myself, I don't see what the big deal is with 'selfies'. Photographers have been photographing themselves since the beginning of photography. Even before that Rembrandt painted himself dozens of times as did Leonardo before him.

I've seen myself in a mirror and know what i look like. People who know me have seen what I look like. So, no, I don't take selfies.

There's some psychological angle to it. I just don't need to partake of it. I have my own particulare brand of psychosis to deal with. i'm sure the OP does too, just not with regards to selfies.

The only selfies I do are for the grandkids. They think I'm goofy looking. Chris

Only when the supply gets way low
Just me: $6.00
you and I : $12.00
each additional person $2.50

me in your favorite college logo shirt: $11.00 + s&H