Selfies are horrible. They are narcissistic snapshots from people who actually think that they are important. We get the horrors of Instagram and other social media platforms full of people who actually think that their lives are relevant and that they are more interesting than their surroundings. They are the visual ramblings of people so disassociated from the real world that they can only focus on themselves at the expense of everyone around them. And they are nothing to do with photography.
As far as I am concerned I have never taken a selfie and never will. The idea of putting myself in front of a scenic place, or an event or another person or group of people and grinning inanely into the lens strikes me as one of the worst things that the human race is involved in. It's an activity for losers, morons and the intellectually challenged. It has created other hideous uses of cameras including the awful TikTok.
We now have a self obsessed society that has all but eliminated creativity. (Just listen to the woeful bleating that passes for pop music these days if you don't believe me) At this moment in time a barely sane dictator is attempting to slaughter the population of a country that was never a threat. We are seeing truly dreadful images coming out of Ukraine showing just what a camera can do to show us the world. Yet there are billions living some kind of pathetic virtual life using their smartphones in an attempt to 'get a life' and ignoring it completely.
If the selfie was used to show us the world and what goes on there, then they might be useful. Instead we get a whole pile of nothing clogging up the worlds bandwidth and filling the worlds servers with complete drivel. There is no problem with using smartphone cameras, I do it all the time. And used in the right way they can show us the state of the world that others would rather we not see. No, the problem is not with the phones, the problem is with the users.
