SELFIE SELF CONFIDENCE
It’s the age of the Selfies and the millennials are all taking advantage of the trend but this phenomenon just might be making our generation self-absorbed.
Young adults spend most of their days taking pictures of themselves just to post on social media for high praises and compliments. They focus on details such as lighting, angles, poses, filters and facial expressions – tips on how to take the perfect selfie. The youth of society has turned a picture into a symbol of perfection among their peers and have changed a form of self-expression into self-obsession.
There is a fixation with likes on social media platforms; depending on how many likes a person receives will result in how they feel about themselves as a person. Growing up and shaping into your body as a young adult is already hard with the braces, acne, glasses and bad hair days without having to add the “perfect selfie” into the mix. When did this society become such narcissistic brats? Since when has a picture become a representation of young adults’ self-worth and value?
This 21st century phenomenon has become one of the motives of low self-esteem amongst this generation. It is a serious reflection of sexual objectification amid females and promotes sexism; it gives off the impression that they are merely but sexual beings. If they don’t turn their waist a certain angle to show their butt or wear a low v-cut shirt to show their breasts they won’t get as many compliments on their beauty. With men, it’s all about the egoistic deliberation. Men feel the necessity to take pictures with money (that most likely isn’t theirs), pose in front of luxury cars and while holding bottles to give off the depiction of this lavish lifestyle.
Remember when you were a little kid and every time you posed for the camera you would stick your tongue out or make your cheeks really big? You would jump around in the backyard all or run around the house in your underwear screaming “mommy look at me!” You were so natural and free; without deceit and without shrewdness. #SELFIE needs to be re-defined from: self-obsession, self-absorbed and self-seeking to self-acceptance, self-confidence and self-love.
By Mimi Ali
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