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| angry old man selfie |
Taking pictures of yourself and present the result on the web has become normal, ie. not only to use a portrait to show a kind of signature belonging to a personal page on a social network - but a kind of permanently updated presentation – may be updated several times a week.
One can thus become her/his own celebrity and then get a boost to your ego if you get a positive response to your selfies. It happens probably once in a while that a person shows unfortunate self-portraits or just ordinary portraits they get mocked for. I have not observed anything like that - but I have no contacts with children or teenagers to a significant degree.
The real tragedy here is the absence of ugly self-portraits - or let's say portraits of people who by conventional criteria will be designated as ugly.
Of course there ARE examples of self-irony and protest that let hideous people perform their selfies - but those are NOT the really young ones.
The"non-neats" allready come short in many areas from love to labour.
The democratization of self-promotion via the social media has made it possible for pretty girls and boys to show themselve off for the whole world - and has excluded the ugly ones - and those who lack self confidence as an "unprofiled" residual group.
