To wonder if people who always upload selfies are vain or insecure?

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I have a few people on my Facebook who upload selfies of themselves every single day, now these women aren't teenagers in fact one of them is almost 30 so I can't help but wonder to always be uploading selfies are they just vein or really insecure & seek out people's likes & approval? 🤔 Either way it's like a get a bloody hobby 😆

I think it perpetuates the fact that people are brainwashed you have to be 'young and perfect' to be 'liked' and have good self esteem and feel a sense of self worth.

What about people who aren't physically perfect? People with facial disfigurement and/or disabilities?
What message is this self obsession with looking perfect giving them?

What about people who aren't physically perfect? People with facial disfigurement and/or disabilities?
What message is this self obsession with looking perfect giving them?

I think you need to take that up with all the cosmetic/fashion/perfume companies.
I don't think the occasional selfie on FB is the problem.

DD has just glanced at this thread and informed me that people she knows who post lots of selfies also create loads of fake logins and then go and "like" their own photos - so they get lots of likes and generate lots of followers.

Even DD thinks that is sad, she's 13.

I think there's a lot of jealousy & envy around attractive people posting selfies. & ESD is right, we're all 'perfect' in our own way, just some of us have a bit more confidence.

You're kidding?!

I look great but I have no urge to post pictures of myself pouting. I would say people who are constantly posting selfies really lack confidence or something.

I am talking about constantly here - An occasional 'people need to see how shit hot I am' I can almost understand.

This article made me think about selfies, look at their selfie pics compared to their mug shots!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3600981/Two-girls-aged-17-18-jailed-trying-kidnap-babies-luring-mothers-fake-Facebook-page-offering-free-children-s-clothes.html

Posting a selfie is the ultimate symbol of a strong feminist. I am still a beautiful self confident women & I want to celebrate that.
And as ESD says, it's far less boring than posting endless photos of your kids at the park ( that only their grandmother is interested in ) or your dinner, or your cat.....( yawn yawn )
Post pictures of you women! you're still a person!

Posting a selfie is the ultimate symbol of a strong feminist??

I've never heard of more bollocks.

"Posting a selfie is the ultimate symbol of a strong feminist."

Pmsl.

I post selfies of DH and I if we are out somewhere and really happy. FB is my diary.

Not because I want people to say I look nice, fgs I am 44.

No it's not bollocks.
So many women once they have kids forget about themselves & lose their identity. All they do is post pictures of their children or food or animals ( just going on my FB )
What about them?

I'd have thought posting pictures of the things in the world which interest you, be it your kids, your mum, your cat, your niche range of 1930s macrame, whatever, is healthier than endless photos of your own face......i genuinely don't understand why some people do not feel whole or validated unless they are documented in visual form, which is what some people seem to be implying. I am here. I am happy. I have an interesting fun life. There aren't many photos of it, and none on Facebook, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Posting a selfie is the ultimate symbol of a strong feminist

Yeah, weekly duck-face is very empowering, a great way to promote social change and fight inequality.

yawn yawn is seeing the same persons mug over and over again, it's only interesting to you, why would anyone else be interested, seriously, I just don't get it.

There's a lot of overthinking going on on this thread

I'm pretty sure the people on my FB feed who post selfies, just do it because it's the latest fad... and because their phones have a selfie camera...and because all their mates do it...oh and because it's a bit of fun.

I sincerely doubt there are any deeper and more meaningful reasons than that.

The one thing I regret about my teenage years, is that I have very few photos from back then.

If camera phones and FB had been around, I have no doubt I would have been posting selfies without thinking about it...the same as I suspect many people on this thread would have too.

Plus, I suspect there'll be a fair few who moan about selfies, yet they'll be flooding FB with pics of their DC instead.

I have a distant cousin who is thick as mince and a bit of a thug and I got inexplicably fascinated by his GF's FB account once. It was set to public, (which is so often the case with these tragic people) and it was full of photos of her writhing about in skimpy clothing in her conservatory, in poses that were verging on pornographic and saying she'd paid to have a professional photographer come to her house and take a portfolio and was now available for glamour model work. There were lots of supportive 'U look stunning hun' type comments from her friends but the truth is that she looked minging and ridiculous and desperate and quite ugly. A little bit of me died inside on her behalf. How are people so deluded?

I am all for female empowerment and boosting one's self esteem but is that really the way to do it?

DD has just glanced at this thread and informed me that people she knows who post lots of selfies also create loads of fake logins and then go and "like" their own photos - so they get lots of likes and generate lots of followers.

One of the tests that psychologists have done on FB (to establish correlation between self esteem and selfies) is to manipulate the number of likes/comments that a selfie gets and then monitor what the person posts as their next status. Selfie-ists who receive low amounts of likes/positive comments usually go on to post negative statuses, whereas the opposite is true for those whose likes/comments were not manipulated.

That's as I always suspected dolka we are creating a whole generation of emotionally delicate, needy narcissists and egotists with social media. It's really quite scary.

Meh! It's only 'quite scary' if you over think it.

Give it a couple of years and the whole selfie thing will be replaced with the next fad.

And people will sit around over thinking that too.