How the #selfie culture is changing our lives

Edgar Ong IT seems to me that we have arrived at a point in our human history when we have gone beyond that famous Andy Warhol’s quote of everyone getting his ‘15 minutes of fame’ with the recent arrival of the #selfie phenomenon on social media like Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. The fact of the matter is that the majority of us are guilty of having been part of this newest phenomenon, which had started sweeping the social media world less than 10 years ago. Today, one can even say that it’s gone beyond that – there’s now TikTok where self-made and edited video-clips and all sorts of creations are available on dozens of apps freely downloadable on the Internet; even an eight-year-old child could do it all, produce his own TikTok video-clip at will! It had all started with the simple ‘selfie’, which the Oxford Dictionary has defined as a ‘photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media’. What was the primary cause of the rapid rise of the selfie? Selfies allow users to actively control the image that they produce – it also draws attention of…
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