"Selfies"

whirlpool · 02-09-2013 01:09AM #1

Are people who post "selfies" literally the worst, most absolutely pointless kind of person in the world?

Yes, they are.

NegativeCreep · 02-09-2013 01:10AM

No Facebook profile is complete without a token selfie.

KeithM89 · 02-09-2013 01:11AM

whirlpool wrote: »

Are people who post "selfies" literally the worst, most absolutely pointless kind of person in the world?

Yes, they are.

No, people who do duckface in photos are.

Sauve · 02-09-2013 01:12AM

whirlpool wrote: »

Are people who post "selfies" literally the worst, most absolutely pointless kind of person in the world?

Yes, they are.

Tell me what you really think...

johnnyskeleton · 02-09-2013 01:14AM

I used to think selfies was what the yoof of today was calling masturbation.

hfallada · 02-09-2013 01:14AM

I was in china and they are mad for them. You see them taking a sly selfie on escalator in the subway, in McDonald's and even a sly selfie beside a westerner like they consented to be in the pic.

Is it is still considered a selfie if you are sending your OH a d1ck pic?

RidleyRider · 02-09-2013 01:29AM

Not sure if life is getting better or.. the amount of fcuk I'm giving is decreasing..

Grayson · 02-09-2013 01:31AM

I have loads of random selfies taken in stupid locations. I always look like I'm about to be punched in the face. It's not deliberate. I just look useless in selfies.

chops018 · 02-09-2013 01:32AM

#What #Is #A #Selfie #?

wil · 02-09-2013 01:55AM

chops018 wrote: »

#What #Is #A #Selfie #?

When a onesie gets together with a camera to produce a twosie

ie a picture you take of yourself that no-one really gives a cr2p about

RidleyRider · 02-09-2013 01:57AM

wil wrote: »

When a onesie gets together with a camera to produce a twosie

ie a picture you take of yourself that no-one really gives a cr2p about

He/she knows what they are, hence the hashtags.

wil · 02-09-2013 02:00AM

RidleyRider wrote: »

He/she knows what they are, hence the hashtags.

#Oh #Really #Thanks

Talib Fiasco · 02-09-2013 02:01AM

I never got the point of them....looking for people to stroke your ego? They're quite embarrassing tbh...the fact that you have to take pictures of yourself instead of others doing it for you.

oppenheimer1 · 02-09-2013 02:02AM

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02658/selfie_2658134b.jpg

downonthefarm · 02-09-2013 02:03AM

depend if they are gettin a neked

nicegirl · 02-09-2013 02:09AM

whirlpool wrote: »

Are people who post "selfies" literally the worst, most absolutely pointless kind of person in the world?

Yes, they are.

There were these girls I knew, but was not friends with him, as they loved themselves, and every bloody day had new photos of themselves up on Facebook, posing, and taking the photo of them by themselves. So very pathetic and sad, and also huge attention seekers. :rolleyes:

wil · 02-09-2013 02:23AM

nicegirl wrote: »

... huge attention seekers. :rolleyes:

Kind of agree, I know a few, that and pictures of their dinner #dinsies.

I wonder though how many people post stuff like this because friends do and so they think thats what they have to do too. Peer pressure?

Rosy Posy · 02-09-2013 03:15AM

I have a friend who's posts albums and albums of selfies, they generally fall into two categories- her trying to look sexy (duckface abounds) and her trying to look 'crazy' (making silly faces/poses). There are so many you'd think that she just uploads all of her photos verbatim but a friend of ours borrowed her phone to take a pic of the kids looking cute and apparantly there are even more- she's selecting the 'good' ones, even when it means posting ten pictures of her eating a piece of toast. When vanity and boredom collide...

whirlpool · 02-09-2013 03:35AM

It's basically a depressing and hideously pitiful form of passive attention-seeking / a beyond-desperate cry for love / an accidental and embarrassing declaration of one's deep insecurities, not so cleverly disguised as a belief in one's favourable aesthetic qualities. Or in lay-man's terms, the god-awful dopes on your facebook page. Surely if we..... ahem.... "cleansed" the planet of every person who ever posts a selfie, the average IQ of the world population would skyrocket? Lets do it.

EdenHazard · 02-09-2013 03:46AM

Haters, gonna hate.

The Backwards Man · 02-09-2013 03:51AM

EdenHazard wrote: »

Haters, gonna hate.

Huggers, gonna hug

Here's a hug ya big narcissist ya

xoxoxo

shane9689 · 02-09-2013 03:58AM

stop judging me!
took a beautiful selfie of myself today and i'm proud of it!
http://2-akamai.tapcdn.com/images/thumbs/taps/2013/04/mirror-selfie-fbb4c90a-sz500x479-animate.png

Caonima · 02-09-2013 06:27AM

hfallada wrote: »

I was in china and they are mad for them. You see them taking a sly selfie on escalator in the subway, in McDonald's and even a sly selfie beside a westerner like they consented to be in the pic.

Nothing sly about it; they are so egregiously obvious when they take them, and they duckmouth for all they're worth, usually. Some consent to have a photo with you, others don't. I had people sidle up next to me in subways, bars, elevators, shops, and try to sneak a photo with my ugly face in it. Just last night in a bar, two girls were trying to position themselves and their phones at an angle to get me in a snap. Annoying when they do that :rolleyes:

Billy86 · 02-09-2013 06:55AM

hfallada wrote: »

I was in china and they are mad for them. You see them taking a sly selfie on escalator in the subway, in McDonald's and even a sly selfie beside a westerner like they consented to be in the pic.

The Asians in Australia will take pictures of ANYTHING though. Pictures of a wall, pictures of a cloudy sky, pictures of a lampost. No joke, I've seen Asians taking pictures of the ground - multiple pictures of an unremarkable footpath. I woul not be surprised if some were taking 250+ pictures a day.

But the big one is food. I don't get it (but it's not nearly as sad as 'selfies'), but the number of pictures Asians in Australia take of their food is on a whole different level. There's a chain of restaurants called Max Brenner that specialise in melted chocolatey stuff. While I was waiting on a ferry, there happened to be one inside so I jumped in to get a cup of hot chocolate for takeaway, while an Asian family were in the door and had just got their chocolate fondue to the table. No joke, every single one of them immediately whipped out the cameras and started taking so many photos I was just relieved to not have epilepsy; between six of them there must have been over 300 photos taken. People moving around, so they could take a photo of just themselves with it, the whole family in over the fondue it on it's own, etc, etc. This went on for ages and they hadn't even touched the food.

I got my hot chocolate eventually (there was a small queue) and went outside to wait on the ferry, but stayed near the shop itself to a) avoid the unexpectedly cold Sydney/Manly winter wind, and b) keep looking... they were still taking photos!!

Eventually after what felt like an eternity, one of them went to dip one of the strawberries in the chocolate. To their disappointment, the chocolate had gone semi-solid.

TeddyTedson · 02-09-2013 07:07AM

shane9689 wrote: »

stop judging me!
took a beautiful selfie of myself today and i'm proud of it!
http://2-akamai.tapcdn.com/images/thumbs/taps/2013/04/mirror-selfie-fbb4c90a-sz500x479-animate.png

Great set of eyes on you Shane

I think Shane has just proved the answer to this thread to be a resounding Yes no!

PS Stop bullying poor little EdenHazard

Caonima · 02-09-2013 07:08AM

Billy86 wrote: »

The Asians in Australia will take pictures of ANYTHING though. Pictures of a wall, pictures of a cloudy sky, pictures of a lampost. No joke, I've seen Asians taking pictures of the ground - multiple pictures of an unremarkable footpath. I woul not be surprised if some were taking 250+ pictures a day.

But the big one is food. I don't get it (but it's not nearly as sad as 'selfies'), but the number of pictures Asians in Australia take of their food is on a whole different level. There's a chain of restaurants called Max Brenner that specialise in melted chocolatey stuff. While I was waiting on a ferry, there happened to be one inside so I jumped in to get a cup of hot chocolate for takeaway, while an Asian family were in the door and had just got their chocolate fondue to the table. No joke, every single one of them immediately whipped out the cameras and started taking so many photos I was just relieved to not have epilepsy; between six of them there must have been over 300 photos taken. People moving around, so they could take a photo of just themselves with it, the whole family in over the fondue it on it's own, etc, etc. This went on for ages and they hadn't even touched the food.

I got my hot chocolate eventually (there was a small queue) and went outside to wait on the ferry, but stayed near the shop itself to a) avoid the unexpectedly cold Sydney/Manly winter wind, and b) keep looking... they were still taking photos!!

Eventually after what felt like an eternity, one of them went to dip one of the strawberries in the chocolate. To their disappointment, the chocolate had gone semi-solid.

http://jennyzhu.com/2012/12/27/why-do-chinese-like-taking-photos-of-food/

Billy86 · 02-09-2013 07:29AM

Caonima wrote: »

http://jennyzhu.com/2012/12/27/why-do-chinese-like-taking-photos-of-food/

Oh I get that, like I said I don't have a big issue with people taking photos of whatever food they're having, especially if it's something novel and/or aesthetic (sushi, tapas and Mexican food taking off in Ireland over the last decade being some examples for us, and going by that blog I would assume some more or less anything Western for Asians). Christ, when I got back from Australia one of the first things I did was make a proper fry (it's something they are awful at - pudding doesn't exist there, and they have a fetish for beef sausages, which honest-to-God taste like cardboard) and put a photo on Facebook to make some of my mates I made over there a bit jealous for a larf. In my defence it's the only time I've done it

! But 20, 50, or more photos per person of a single meal!?

I also forgot to add regarding selfies, that depressingly it looks like photo-shopping them has become quite popular (is dat d'new ting, is it!?); if you want to simulataneously feel depression, humour and despair just put 'selfie photoshop fail' into Google Images.
http://i734.photobucket.com/albums/ww348/tiffanietan/Blog%20300313/mobile-phone-texting-autocorrect-self-poortraits-photoshop-fail.jpg
http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/01728/fail-gig_1728742a.jpg

Footoo · 02-09-2013 07:39AM

I thought people just took selfles as a modern replacement for looking in the mirror. You know:

"How does my hair look this morning?" Selfie

"Does this t-shirt suit me?" Selfie

"Am I a handsome bugger or what?" Selfie

Didn't realise there was a phenomenon of people actually posting them on facebook.

Billy86 · 02-09-2013 07:46AM

It's basically the main reason that Instagram is probably the third largest social media outlet, after Facebook and Twitter.

You'll find some amazing photography, at, good quality graffiti bits, etc on there. But it's probably 75% (or more) selfies and food pictures.

y0ssar1an22 · 02-09-2013 09:08AM

Billy86 wrote: »

It's basically the main reason that Instagram is probably the third largest social media outlet, after Facebook and Twitter.

You'll find some amazing photography, at, good quality graffiti bits, etc on there. But it's probably 75% (or more) selfies and food pictures.

it seems to be the way to make money on the net....preying on people's vanity.

Now to come up with something myself

Cienciano · 02-09-2013 09:22AM

whirlpool wrote: »

Are people who post "selfies" literally the worst, most absolutely pointless kind of person in the world?

Yes, they are.

People who misuse the word "literally" are worse. I've spoken to literally 3 people so far today, and all 3 of them literally dropped the word "literally" into each sentence about 5 times. Literally. Each time it was literally like being stabbed in the chest.

"Selfies"

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