Selfies Case Study

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One of the trends today is taking selfies. It is believed that Self-portrait or selfie’s have been practiced many years ago. It just happen that there are increasing number of people who use the word “selfie” whenever they take pictures of themselves through the influence of social media. As a Filipino, we cannot deny that many of us were addicted or so attach on taking selfie’s and many of them are teenagers. Resulting from this new trend of taking pictures of ourselves, Philippines is declared as one of the selfie capital of the world. According to Silveman (2013) of The Telegraph, posting selfies can lead to a worst case scenario of cyber bullying. Youth who takes selfies is often believed as a sign of approval from their peers by posting …show more content…

For instance, neuroticism and extraversion predicted more photos that we upload. Conscientiousness was predicted of more self generated albums and video uploads and agreeableness predicted the average number of received likes and comments in profile pictures. In addition to that, another study by Nguyen (2014) said that taking selfies particularly on young women has a relationship within their emotional state, including handling rejection and criticism and comparison to others and independence. Another study by Swamintan (2008), said that taking selfie is not just a picture, but is a specific discourse of a technoscape, a digital gaze in itself. To give more clarity Sorokowski, P., Sorokowska, A., Oleszkiewicz, A., Frackowiak, T., Huk, A., & Pisanski, K. (2015) found out that men are more higher to perform narcissistic tendency than women who take selfies. Their study shows that the link between narcissism and selfie-posting behavior is comparatively weak among women than men, and provide novel insight into the social motivations and functions of online social networking. In addition to that, a study by Ong, E. Y., Ang, R. P., Ho, J. C., Lim, J. C., Goh, D. H., Lee, C. S., & Chua, A. Y. (2011) found that extraversion and narcissism highly correlated to the number of selfie upload in social media site like

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