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to want to ban the selfie stick?

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LazySusan11 · 16/04/2016 20:34

Lovely friend of mine put some photos up on fakebook of her recent holiday and a night out, all taken with one of these ridiculous sticks. We're going away for a few days on a city break soon and she tells me she's bringing it. AIBU to think they are just crap and it's bit narcissistic to be wandering around taking photos of yourself so blatantly in public?

I'm just going to sidestep her each time she gets it out!

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Crispbutty · 18/04/2016 12:31

couldnt agree more.. friends of mine went on an amazing trip to new zealand and I looked forwards to seeing the photos.. when I did see them, it was about 150 shots of them grinning into a camera.. you couldnt see the amazing scenery for their faces..

Sallyingforth · 18/04/2016 12:32

They can be a nuisance at some events. We call them 'selfish sticks'

OddBoots · 18/04/2016 12:38

It isn't the sticks themselves that are the problem, it is the utter lack of moderation some people have with them. If you are in a public place with them, especially if it is crowded then maybe take a couple of pictures with it but then put the flipping thing away and just enjoy the place or event you are at - you don't need a full on photo journal of the whole day.

AppleSetsSail · 18/04/2016 12:39

They're beyond absurd, I welcome the ban.

People who take selfies are complete idiots. They ruin public attractions for everyone - please stop.

EagleRay · 18/04/2016 12:39

Some tourists at my local spa were using it in the bloody pool Hmm

I felt like grabbing it off them and taking the stick and camera for a little 'swim'

NoahVale · 18/04/2016 12:41

we saw a huge crowd of turned out to be Austrian students at our local beauty spot last week, on the beach. i wondered why they were waving their metal detectors in the air.
they were selfie sticks.

AppleSetsSail · 18/04/2016 12:41

If you are in a public place with them, especially if it is crowded then maybe take a couple of pictures with it but then put the flipping thing away and just enjoy the place or event you are at - you don't need a full on photo journal of the whole day.

If everyone at a crowded attraction were to take just a couple of selfies, people would still be forced to spend their day trying to get around the ridiculous selfie-staging.

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LazySusan11 · 18/04/2016 12:47

I don't get it, you're in a lovely place and of course you want to take photos to keep for the memories, however you've taken the photos so in years to come it'll be nice to look back on, you'll not forget you were there! why the need for hundreds of photos of your face posing with only part or none of the background?

If my friend thinks I am going to have that stick shoved in front of us walking down the street she's on her own, it's embarrassing people shamelessly stopping mid street disrupting others to take a photo of yourself, not of where you are, not the scenery no just of yourself grinning to post to fakebook so everyone can see how wonderful your life is.

It's vain it's not very classy and it's embarrassing! Hmm

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AppleSetsSail · 18/04/2016 12:51

It is extraordinarily vain. It would have been considered unusually self-absorbed to take such an interest in photographing one's self until just a few years ago.

Alconleigh · 18/04/2016 12:59

My walk to and from work involves crossing Tower Bridge and walking past HMS Belfast etc. Imagine. It's the selfie stick mother lode. Thankfully there are fewer in evidence in the morning when my blood sugars are low and I've not had a coffee yet, or i would probably have hurled one into the Thames by now. Or worse.......It is the rise of narcissism fuelling this. When I go and see famous sites I want a picture of said site. I know what I look like Hmm

notamummy10 · 18/04/2016 13:07

I would not hand over my iphone6 to a stranger on the street, hence the need for a selfie stick.

This would be my reasoning to use a selfie stick although someone could still run off with my phone, but if I was at a tourist attraction then I'd use a camera as the picture quality on iPhones can be crap at the times... Smile irrelevant tangent there, oh well.

neonrainbow · 18/04/2016 13:55

What a grumpy bunch of mardies on this thread "oh yes it's simply not the done thing to want photos of oneself on holiday" well what the heck is the harm in taking one or two with a selfie stick to get all of you plus the scenery in?! You can take photos and enjoy the place youre at you know! As before i don't have one but then i don't think I'm superior to those who do have one either.

AppleSetsSail · 18/04/2016 14:05

What a grumpy bunch of mardies on this thread

Fine, I'll take it. Wink

whois · 18/04/2016 14:06

I've got one for skiing. Blush

Sallyingforth · 19/04/2016 10:17

Waves to fellow mardies ~~~~ :)

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