Was there ever an object that typified our narcissistic more than...

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...the selfie stick.

I want one!

I'm a lone parent and barely have any photos of DS and I together. It's just not physically possible when there are only two of you and one of you is only three years old.

I plan to buy one and take loads of photos of us both on our hollibobs

Agree. It's like we are in one of those films about a horrible dystopian future in which people are so revolting and self centred and materialistic that they can see nothing around them.

I don't get people's problems with selfies. They're just photos. If people think "ooh I look nice today, I'd like a photo" what the fuck is wrong with that

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swallowed ..My oh never thinks to take any photos of me. I might get one. I'm a hideous thing but still my dd might appreciate a few to look back on someday!

People have take photos for ages. Now instead of asking a random stranger you can just take it yourself.

I admit I don't take selfies posing my pants in front of the mirror

But if you're out and about and want a picture of you and your friends, what's the difference in using a stick?

I suppose they're great for people with short arms

I think selfies are awful. The stupid expressions, the staged ones. I have no desire to look at anyone's nor have one of myself.

I think ones with own children/some event or place in/group of friends etc could be ok, but just a picture of oneself? No.

Although I think I'm arguing a slightly different point

I think you are confusing narcissism with vanity. Vanity can be done with humour, narcissism often has other associated more unpleasant traits such as selfishness and lack of empathy.

I'd find a certain pattern of behaviour much more harmful than something like a selfie stick. Some people just like to take photographs with themselves e.g. as a way of keeping tabs on their weight, or as a sentimental record of certain things.

Don't see how selfies are stupider than those awful girls night out pictures...but I don't spend my time moaning about what photos others take because it doesn't affect me!

I can see their use, my kids love looking at pictures with them and me in them. It's frequently just me and the kids if we go out for the day, I have very few photos of me and my sister with my mum, she was taking them.

Another single mum here, have taken loads since its me and DS on trips.

I was in Cambridge on Thursday and I saw a tourist use a selfie stick to take a picture of him eating a hot dog, with a bottle of coke sticking out of his pocket. He was facing a nice college (not in the photo, obvs) so his background was of a cruddy 60s building.

Weird.

I want one!

Took dd away on holiday and from the photos you'd never guess I was there as I was taking them!

My friend take hilarious pics with hers I love seeing them

You can get them in Quality Save.

I got my mum one to use for scenic pictures and church/family events for group shots. It's given my dad a whole new reason to do her head in lease of life and he lives to photobomb her.

Self portrait in your bedroom.

Lashes your user name points to a certain interest in your personal appearance above that of most people anyway...so you wouldn't see the problem.

thehouse that might not be true. I've not drank tequila for seven years after a heavy night in Mexico.

Meowww

I concur with Grays.
I am not even a zebra.

Is it a selfie if you are taking it for your own personal use. Whose to say every picture taken is going to get slapped on social media. I have thousands of pictures of my family and my girls and my dogs. Just because I happen to be outside a pub or whatever doesn't mean it's for anyone else's enjoyment but mine. I need I selfie stick. I have short fat arms.

So you haven't got spots either then TheSpotted :( I'm disappointed

It might surprise you but I'm not an analogy, let alone Gray's analogy.

Selfie sticks are nit narcissistic, but there is something slightly cringy about them. The thing is though, they can take a really good picture and they mean no one has to be left out of the photo. Like them or loate them, they serve a valid purpose, even if they can be a pain in the arse in public places.