What's with people and selfies on instagram?

esstee33

ITT: Lots of people act superior, apparently. 

I've held off from responding to this thread because, I mean, I was actually kinda busy at work today, but also because I wanted to really sit and think about what I say before I say it for once. So here: why in the hell do you care? Half my IG feed is selfies, all day every day. Rarely are they mine. But I'm sure each and every one of those people has a good reason for posting it, even if you don't agree. 

We, as human beings, for better or worse, tend to judge ourselves in comparison to others. We follow fashion trends, try new restaurants or hair products or what-have-you because our friends (or magazines, or whatever) recommended it to us. We find a sense of purpose and identity in community, and IG is a community in which taking selfies is encouraged and supported. If your profile is public, and you use hashtags, you could interact with all sorts of people. Not to get mega philosophical or anything, but the internet opened up a myriad of ways in which we can expand our micro-world, and IG is a perfect extension of that. Someone mentioned liking the NatGeo IG, which is awesome. And photography! You can find tons of that on IG with hashtags, so I'm not totally sure why people are bashing hastags when they're a totally legitimate search function. 

I guess I just don't understand why people in this thread just feel like shitting on people they can easily just scroll past. You don't know that person's story. One of my best friends from college posts OMFG so many selfies. Constantly. With Starbucks, and #psl tags, and tons of other stuff people like to scoff at. It's definitely, 100% not my thing. But you know what? She's had an awful fucking year, and some things happened in her life that made her question some major parts of her identity. Selfies are helping her cope, and fuck judging that. 

Here's something interesting for everyone read: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-15168/in-defense-of-selfies.html

ETA: Oh, also, breaking news: You can unfollow people on IG just like you can on FB. Ta-da, no more selfies! 

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esstee33 said:

ITT: Lots of people act superior, apparently. 

I've held off from responding to this thread because, I mean, I was actually kinda busy at work today, but also because I wanted to really sit and think about what I say before I say it for once. So here: why in the hell do you care? Half my IG feed is selfies, all day every day. Rarely are they mine. But I'm sure each and every one of those people has a good reason for posting it, even if you don't agree. 

We, as human beings, for better or worse, tend to judge ourselves in comparison to others. We follow fashion trends, try new restaurants or hair products or what-have-you because our friends (or magazines, or whatever) recommended it to us. We find a sense of purpose and identity in community, and IG is a community in which taking selfies is encouraged and supported. If your profile is public, and you use hashtags, you could interact with all sorts of people. Not to get mega philosophical or anything, but the internet opened up a myriad of ways in which we can expand our micro-world, and IG is a perfect extension of that. Someone mentioned liking the NatGeo IG, which is awesome. And photography! You can find tons of that on IG with hashtags, so I'm not totally sure why people are bashing hastags when they're a totally legitimate search function. 

I guess I just don't understand why people in this thread just feel like shitting on people they can easily just scroll past. You don't know that person's story. One of my best friends from college posts OMFG so many selfies. Constantly. With Starbucks, and #psl tags, and tons of other stuff people like to scoff at. It's definitely, 100% not my thing. But you know what? She's had an awful fucking year, and some things happened in her life that made her question some major parts of her identity. Selfies are helping her cope, and fuck judging that. 

Here's something interesting for everyone read: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-15168/in-defense-of-selfies.html

ETA: Oh, also, breaking news: You can unfollow people on IG just like you can on FB. Ta-da, no more selfies! 

I have to agree, I can't really muster up enough fucks to give. It gets annoying when it's constant and floods my feed but that's with anything people post. And I just ignore it!