{"id":5338,"date":"2016-02-06T20:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T09:44:46","slug":"psychology-behind-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/psychology-behind-selfies.html","title":{"rendered":"Psychology Behind Selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While most of us believe selfie is current generation&#8217;s thing, we have that one fact wrong. Believe it or not the first ever selfie was taken way back in 1839 by an amateur chemist and photographer Robert Cornelius. He had set up the camera at the back of his family store and produced a daguerreotype\u00a0of himself. He took the image by removing the lens and running towards the frame, sitting in front of it for a minute and then he covered the lens again. He called this picture &#8220;The first light picture ever taken-1839&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5339\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/06195321\/selfies.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5339\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5339 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/06195321\/selfies-360x239.png\" alt=\"selfies\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: www.mirror.co.uk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Selfies, just like social media, promotes self-portrayal. It&#8217;s about how one wants the world to know how perfect you are. No one usually posts a bad picture on such sites or apps. People usually tend to hand pick the &#8220;perfect&#8221; shot and share it with the virtual friends. Taking selfies has become about letting people know how happening their life is. An escape from reality \u2013 that\u2019s how some people define social media. Selfies can now be part of that escape plan.<\/p>\n<p>Studies suggest that taking too many selfies can be connected to narcissism and psychopathy. Self-objectification and Machiavellianism are also included in the dark side of the Selfie-fame.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5341\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/06205221\/selfies.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5341\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5341 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/06205221\/selfies-360x203.jpg\" alt=\"selfies\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 360px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 360\/203;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Source:i.ytimg.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end, taking selfies is not bad as far as it doesn\u2019t become your obsession. As long as you take a few snaps for your own satisfaction it doesn\u2019t really harm you. So Go ahead, take selfies in life\u2019s amazing moments but don\u2019t make selfie your life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of us believe selfie is current generation&#8217;s thing, we have that one fact wrong. Believe it or not the first ever selfie was taken way back in 1839 by an amateur chemist and photographer Robert Cornelius. He had set up the camera at the back of his family store and produced a daguerreotype\u00a0of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-growth","category-self-esteem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}