Selfies- blessing or curse ?

Since 2004 are “Selfies“ very popular. Everyone make pictures from themselves or in groups to show others how great they are living. But Selfies are not as nice as usual. When you take a picture you want to make a special one to standing out from the others, this can be very dangerous. You can get hurt or you can die (cliff, rails).

Since the ancient Egypt exist the phenomenon “Selfie”. They had drawing pictures from themselves. Today everybody is taking pictures from them. The teenagers are taking the most pictures, part also with dangers, like two thirteen and fifteen old girls from Germany. The girls were taking pictures on rails while a train was coming. Everyday people hurting themselves for a selfie, for example a couple died in front of them kids, because of a better view for a photo.

 Even celebrity posting photos or videos from them work, outfit, face or something else. Even more people taking pictures for likes and recognition. They feeling better when they get a lot of likes for them selfies. But they feeling bad when they not get likes or they get bad comments for they look. Other, who don`t have enough confidence could be sad or they starting to think they are ugly. They want to look like the others and trying everything to reach this. Sometimes people are killing themselves when they can’t reach this.

 It could happen that someone steel your pictures and personality. They kidding others and hurting them. It could happen that you don’t get along about this and a foreign is using your personality in the internet.

All in all you can say that Selfies have a lot of advantages and disadvantages. You can decide on your own if you like to do selfies or not. But never hurt yourself by doing selfies.

Alina Kraft, Larissa Schneider, Lena Bertram