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Lovelock begins talking about Instagram, a social media platform which is used to share pictures with your followers. He talks about how people tend to upload photos with the #transformationtuesday, claiming to have transformed their physical features. As more pictures that are being recently uploaded within social media, the further we see people enhancing their photos to become flawless. As we dig further into the social media side of the internet, we are going to see just how much influence society has on people and their decision to become who they perceive as perfect. Throughout the

This is an appeal to Pathos. He states that he is totally fine with a selfie itself. We all take selfies in our daily lives. He is speaking against with dangerous selfies. Life is so valuable, nobody wants a stupid selfie to destroy our lives. Newcombe writes, “Life is too precious a gift to throw away for a picture”(2). He directly compared life with a picture. He uses the term “too precious” and “throw away” to show his strong emotions. It is also directly for reader to realize which one is more important. The answer is clear, because no matter how amazing the picture are, nothing will bring back a life. At the end of his article, he writes, “In short, we only have one life...on this earth. Please don’t waste it, trying to get that perfect selfie” (2). He also uses “only” and“one life”. It is a radical use of the term and to remind the readers that life is precious. In the such a harmonious and stable society, people will always forget we only have one life and one chance. Some people will forget sometimes we are so much close to death and one little mistake can destroy everything. It always needs to pay the price for your own folly. He uses this radical term to show his strong feeling about dangerous selfies. By using pathos to make people feel related, and recognizes this serious

Many people fear the truth and hide their true selves. In the article “Two-Faced: How Social Media Is Turning Us Into A Fake Generation” by Keena Alwahaidi, has a demonstration of how humans change to show their “perfect world” to their followers. Keena says, “Social media is a world. We live through our screens, and many of us feel the need to pretend to do and have whatever we want and wish for” (Alwahidi 15). People can create and make “finstagrams” and those show a truer you. In the NY Times article, Valeriya Safronova says, “Some young adults, weary of trying to live up to their annoyingly perfect online avatars, have created “finstagrams,” or fake Instagram accounts, that present truer versions of themselves than their main profiles. These locked, pseudonymous accounts capture something rarely seen by people who follow these same users on their main accounts: reality.” People only feel comfortable projecting their true selves in front of their friends. This demonstrates how people feel insecure about their real personality. The finstas are your true self but the real Instagrams are almost what is fake about you. The finsta has less followers than the real Instagram because you might not want to show your true self to everyone. The sources demonstrated how people are afraid to put their true self out

Over the year’s society has developed tremendously; especially when it comes to gender equality. There was once a time where women were not allowed to vote or even leave the house because they were viewed as the people whose job was to stay home to cook, clean, and take care of the kids. It is 2017 now and we’ve come a long way at fighting for our rights. Although we have come a long way, there are still issues we face in society. We are constantly struggling to break these standards that women should look a certain way to be considered beautiful. Along with this there are still many things that in a way state women aren’t as great, strong, or as smart as men. While we’ve succeeded in some aspects to have equal rights, there are many more things

I think the picture shows that in this day and age all we are concerned about is how we look, what pose we just did, what clothes we wear, and how we get judged by other people. We now live in a technology and social media driven world where people post pictures every few minutes of where they are, what there doing, what there wearing, what foods there eating, and every other thing imaginable in this world. There is an endless list of what people tweet, snap, and share that now a days that all we are doing. I think that sometimes social media make us self centered because all social media has become is us just talking about ourselves and our lives. Social media has also created people who are unaware of the actual world around them not the social media driven world online.

Journalist Anna Hart argues this is the new era of people sharing selfies on a daily basis, that society has reached into “the age vanity, the digital vanity, you can argue no generation is immune from the selfie craze” (Hart,2014). A selfie has a variety of audiences from children capturing their best look to The Pope, it’s the new way of capturing evidence of your interaction with different people, better than asking for an autograph. However, in Hart’s (2014) article she argues that the idea that there is a need to look a certain way all of the time, especially when you are posting a selfie on social media, it almost has to be perceived in a positive way, showing the best selfie. Hart (2014) said “I need to look healthy, glossy and polished

But on this canvas, people tend to paint beautiful lies about themselves, blotting over the imperfections. Now, this may not seem like such a bad thing. What’s wrong with people telling lies here and there if it boosts their self-confidence? But that’s where researchers are finding the problem. “”The onslaught of Photoshopped images gives us a false standard to aspire to," she says. “We know logically we'll never look like those women-but those images are powerful in shaping our expectations of ourselves.” …says relationship expert Natasha Burton, author of 101 Quizzes for Couples.” (Tomko) The phenomenon that people are finding to be true is that the constant bombardment of seemingly perfect people is making people wonder why they aren’t as perfect as the people they see in the pictures. And it’s not just social media. Society in general has this proclivity towards perfection. People that fall out of that sphere of perfection that the media projects begin to feel inadequate about themselves. “Girls already insecure about their weight can feel even worse when they compare themselves to ultrathin models” (Thin Fashion Models). This insecurity and self-loathing may even lead to eating disorders, like anorexia and bulimia. Media puts so much pressure on people, especially young girls, to strive to be something they’re not simply because they were taught that it was the only way they would be loved or cared about. “While

“No one is forced to take selfies, but the preponderance of selfie culture inspires a heightened self-consciousness of our personal images online.” This is apart of the Times Article, and how peer pressure is the cause of people being self-consciousness about what they post online.

By giving these examples, Syme proves that her claim is valid, and that the selfie really is revolutionary. Syme’s claims that selfies are revolutionary can be proven by statistics. According to Infogram, one million selfies are taken each day by 18 to 24 year olds. Also, there are 58,425,492 photos tagged with the hashtag ‘selfie’ on Instagram (‘Selfie’ Statistics). With those numbers in mind, it is no wonder there is so much revolutionary potential for selfies.

Photographs on Facebook are an example of this trend. We strive so hard to maintain this pristine image of ourselves, and use social media sites as a stage to project how we want the world to see us. There is nothing wrong with looking well, but we should not change for others. How we look is now our priority. Why do we want other people to perceive us in a way that isn’t the truth? ‘Natural’ is now merely a word printed in the dictionary.

It’s easy to point to our current selfie-obsessed society and label it selfish and narcissistic. In fact, just last year, the American Psychological Association declared that taking more than 3 selfies a day and posting them to social media to be a mental disorder. Now, while I won’t refute that excessive selfie taking may equate to selfishness and narcissism, I will try to reason why the generalization that Millennials are selfish and narcissistic to be

As stated above, the way an individual portrays themselves online affects how others perceive them. When posting a selfie, the subject of the photo and others perceptions of the photo vary. Typically, one’s views on how other people perceive them are accurate, however occasionally a meta-perceptual trait blind spot can occur. A trait blind spot is when other people can see one’s traits accurately, however the individual cannot. The self-serving bias is a type of trait blindspot where one overestimates their positive traits and underestimates their negative traits. A study (Re, Wang, He, & Rule, 2016) found that the self-serving bias affects selfies because the subjects tend to see themselves as more attractive and likeable than the average

After close analyzation of my five selfies, I have established the three words that most describe my selfies are shared, joyful, and close. Two of these words accurately describe my identity, one does not. I don’t like to be the center of attention and my selfie reflects this because they all are sharing the focus with someone or something else, therefore one of my words is shared. I am a joyful person and my selfie shows this because they are all at a place that makes me feel joy or with someone or something that brings me joy. The only word that doesn’t describe my identity is close because I don’t like to be the main point of focus. The reason for the selfies being a close-up of me though, is because I took the pictures without the

Ellen DeGeneres couldn’t have said it better, “Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It 's about knowing and accepting who you are.” Imagine yourself in a world where everyone was confident with his or her looks. How different would your life be? No need for makeup or stressing to maintain a certain image. Just think of all the time you’d save just being confident with who you are! Statistics show that over 50% of teenage girls are self conscious about their looks. Social Media is negatively affecting confidence in woman and distorting what true beauty really is. Apps like Instagram and Twitter constantly lie to women about what true beauty is.

In today’s society, the public is exposed to technology at even younger ages than ever before. Everywhere you go these days you see kids even as little as three holding their parent’s phones or even their own, watching videos or playing games. But as said in the article Does Social media impact on body image by Philippa Roxby, as kids start becoming teenagers their technological uses advance and they start to rely on social media sites for new sources of communication, and their main channel to the outside world. Based on studies conducted by psychologists they have come up with a conclusion that social media has a direct relationship to body image concerns. I believe that in today’s society we should focus on promoting self-confidence as most of the adolescents have a very low assurance of their own bodies. Although a study conducted in the article The Upside of Selfies: Social media isn’t all bad for kids by Kelly Wallace says that a survey which resulted in 52% of the teens saying that social media positively influences them. Even though social media platforms have some beneficial aspects such as they make people want to go on diets, exercise, and eating healthy, the teenagers don’t really look/understand the negative aspects of it. The impacts that are carried with social media are mostly negative such as fancying teenagers to lose confidence in themselves and has become a toxic mirror to them. The visual platforms impact