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. Besides that, the development of
advanced technology, almost all of smartphones have camera features, so people
can do selfie easily. But selfie have many negative effects for us that can influence
our life.
Increasing narcissisme in society
Usually, selfie
is used as medium to show off that they are beautiful, sexy, handsome,
attractive, fashionable and so on. Generally, selfie is done by them when they
feel glamour and fashionable, or when they want to show what are they doing.
Often upload selfie-photos, describe increasing narcissisme in society. It also
led to the emergence of public perception, that the most important are
appearance and physical beauty. People who narcissistic glad to boast about
themself and hope others give praise. They want the people’s attention. By they do selfie, upload in
the social media, and get the feedback such as “like” or comment, they will
feel recognized, get social acceptance and appreciation in the environment.
That’s a basic human need. If selfie is doing with over, selfie has considerable
harm potential to them self-esteem. Without realizing it, they will depend on
the appreciation of the outside, like by number of “likes” and comments of
others. So, the purpose they are
narciss, because they want get praise from others.
Increasing the manipulating or editing in selfie-photos
Nowdays, by the
development of advance technology and many people in the world use smartphone,
many selfie-photos that were uploaded in social media are photo editing. Photo
editing is one of applications in smartphone that can manipulate and change the
photo more beautiful. People who
manipulating or editing their selfie-photo with Photo-editor application, their
selfie-photo will be more beautiful or handsome than fact, because the purpose
of editing is make perfect image. That case make they depend with editing
application in every their image. And It cause they don’t appreciate the
creation of God, they feel unsatisfied with the physic that they have. So, for them it is better to editing the first
before they upload their selfie-photo in social media.
In conclusion,
social media like Facebook and Instagram were created as medium to
self-expression and communicate with others. Selfie is not prohibited, but considering selfie can influence our life style become bad, so people should use it wisely and not over. So that the generations are not become
worst by the development of advance technology today Iike trend selfie.
Posted by Iswari Puji
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