"you like that Miley Cyrus is twerking or you aspire to be a photographer" Or I aspire to be Miley Cyrus's twerk photographer.
maybe there should be a network for twerking
The Selfies are Coming. The Selfies are Here (Part 2)
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#12Why does the service impose a mandatory expiration date on selfies? There are candid photos of me that I didn't like at the time but now (and some of this is just plain old bei familiar with them) are amusing and valuable to me. This is a cool side project and I hate to do a serious critique of it...but since the OP decided to go the pithy Medium essay route, I'll take it he's sincere about thinking these this throug…
You can always take a screenshot ya know.
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#14Why does the service impose a mandatory expiration date on selfies? There are candid photos of me that I didn't like at the time but now (and some of this is just plain old bei familiar with them) are amusing and valuable to me. This is a cool side project and I hate to do a serious critique of it...but since the OP decided to go the pithy Medium essay route, I'll take it he's sincere about thinking these this throug…
These aren't really candid photos, as I understand it; you take a photo of yourself, and you prepare yourself for it.
I'm learning that these are more like faces you would make in front of a mirror -- if you could carry a mirror with you anywhere and have it upload your face to a magical place in the cloud.
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#15Tangential question: Dailybooth used to do pretty much what Selfie.im does now, but failed and shut down a couple of years back - Do you think Dailybooth would be more successful if they launched now?
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#16Me today: I don't get social networking. Me as a teenager: social interactions on the internet--so cool and interesting.
My hypothesis: social networks create a virtual world where we can construct the identity we hoped to construct. However as these networks age, mistakes in that identity come more often and suddenly that identity isn't so pristine. You can extrapolate this to anything that is on the internet and social from a simple forum to facebook.
Now recent attempts are "hey, let's just delete stuff and that will model reality a bit better" but it doesn't. You've just changed the rules to an alternate virtual world, not necessarily made the virtual reality.
My conclusion is therefore in order for you to experience life as reality you should stop trying to rely on a virtual copy to emulate those same experiences.
When my friends get on their phones and computers and are so intent and focus on their digital identity, they can't experience what is real. The conversation is boring. The conversation exists in a digital virtual world that I'm not part of because I (now) refuse to export all of my time and experiences to that virtual world.
I was lucky to learn these lessons as a child as the internet had just taken off and I (being a teenager) took advantage of everything it had to offer from online gaming to working internationally with others around the world. When meeting in real life, however, things felt a bit strange. It was like two strangers that were previously friends had finally had a real-world interaction. The awkwardness now became how to do we reconcile are real-world-selves with the virtual-selves we've known. The sad truth was that we couldn't easily. The internet allowed us to only focus on what we found important and ignore the rest of reality. I feel that more and more people are falling into this trap and it will be a rude awakening for them when they are much older.
So is there a desire for such virtual worlds? Obviously yes. But the real question we should be asking ourselves is should we continuously be trying to feed that desire?
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#17The world totally needs this.
I agree, indulging narcissism is perhaps _the_ most important issue of our day.
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#18Me today: I don't get social networking. Me as a teenager: social interactions on the internet--so cool and interesting. My hypothesis: social networks create a virtual world where we can construct the identity we hoped to construct. However as these networks age, mistakes in that identity come more often and suddenly that identity isn't so pristine. You can extrapolate this to anything that is on the internet and so…
good points here.. one tangential and very undeveloped thought I had was w selfie/expirations and how it fills in the gaps of real life activity. you should go live in the 3d world and taking precious time away to brag about things on FB et al is maybe not where we should be.. but as a quick gesture for the in between times, maybe there are products for this moments of nothingness.
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#19This seems backwards. "Authenticity" and "identity" aren't monolithic. To steal from Walt Whitman, we all contain multitudes.
What I express on IG is no more or less authentic than what I express here or on Quora or at a quiet meal with friends. They all express a sometimes-idealized aspect of myself. The goal is not a quest for "real identity." The idea itself is incoherent.
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#20The world totally needs this.
I agree, indulging narcissism is perhaps _the_ most important issue of our day.
narcissism is getting love from
people about your "awesome" life - it applies to selfies too .. but I also think taking photos of yourself gives you control over how you want the photo framed, the face you make, etc.. think control might be a bigger factor?