Selfie is a word that is
added in Oxford Dictionary on August 2013, and defined as 2013’s Word of The
Year in Online Oxford Dictionary. Selfie is photographing yourself or
self-potrait, especially using smartphone or webcam, then uploaded to Social
Media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Nowdays, selfie-trend become
very popular. Why?. Selfie become very popular because with selfie, we can actively
adjust the image that our show. Even, selfie is used as medium to show off that
we are beautiful, sexy, handsome, attractive, fashionable and so on. Generally,
selfi is done by us when we feel glamour and fashionable, or when we want to
show what are we doing. Besides that, the purpose of selfie is to attract the
people attentions. By they do selfie, upload in the social media, and get the
feedback such as “like” or comment. We will feel recognized, get social
acceptance and appreciation in the environment. That’s a basic human need.
Besides that, the development of advanced technology, almost all of smartphones
have camera features, so people can do selfie easily. Selfie have good effects
and bad effects for us.
Selfie has good effects namely as medium to self-expression and to communicate. Selfie is good to young people, because it can boost them accept and appreciate themself. Besidest that, not only to boost them to show their appearance, but also allows them to show their achievements or related with something that. it will boost other people to do the same. If done right and not over, selfie can be beneficial as a medium of self-exploration because allows us to see picture ourself as others see us. For example, when we do selfie while get achiev or when we are taking school abroad and take pictures selfie, within see our photo, we actually proud and other people will see or know our success, so for other people especially people who know us will be encouraged to get same success or as they wish.
Often upload selfie-photos, describe increasing narcissisme in society. It also led to the emergence of public perception, that the most important is appearance and physical beauty. People who narcissistic glad to boast about themself and hope others give praise. If selfie is doing with over, selfie has considerable harm potential to our self-esteem. Without realizing it, we will depend on the appreciation of the outside, like by number of “likes” and comments of others. Besides that, the bad effect of selfie is manipulate selfie-photos. Many selfie-photos that were uploaded in social media are photo edits that make people selfie-photos more beautiful or handsome than fact. It cause we don’t appreciate the creation of God.
Posted by Iswari Puji Lestari
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