#selfie #me #narcissist? #hashtag #toomany#
Visual communities week 9
Instagram is a platform to share images of what you’re doing, but if you take a broad look at it, it makes society as a whole seem quite narcissistic. I’m not saying we’re a society of narcissists, but in the steep rise of digital narcissism it puts enormous pressure on people to achieve unfeasible goals, without making them hungrier to achieve them.
So then you look at people who are addicted to selfies, which is a real thing apparently and perfecting their image. There was a teenager that was so image obsessed that he took up to 200 photos a day of himself, because he wanted to perfect the image he was portraying on social media. He wanted people to approve of him so badly, that he became so obsessed with his image he dropped 13kg and almost dropped out of school, almost ending his own life. Obviously this is an extreme case, but this happens out in the world. So in some cases this narcissistic tendency can be extremely detrimental, not just to individuals but society as a whole. Also looking up the #selfie tag on tumblr is really confronting. I don’t know who all these people are, but yet they appear on my screen. suckas!