[HN Gopher] Snap chat: The psychology of selfies (2019)
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       Snap chat: The psychology of selfies (2019)
        
       Author : yamrzou
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2022-01-28 11:26 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | opdahl wrote:
       | I don't doubt that there are many things that can be explained
       | with psychology around __why__ we take selfies, but I feel that
       | this is a perfect case of Occam's razor. As in we take selfies
       | because we want to take a photo of ourselves, and the easiest way
       | to do that is to do it yourself. I can imagine you would get
       | considerable less selfies taken if it would actually require
       | another person taking the photo for you (while still making it
       | qualify as a selfie).
        
         | tremon wrote:
         | As a counterpoint, when I was grew up it was very common to ask
         | a random passerby to take a picture of you while you posed.
         | Maybe we don't do that anymore because we've become too
         | accustomed to doing it ourselves, maybe we're just too isolated
         | from each other to invite/allow others into our lives, if even
         | for fifteen seconds.
        
           | electroly wrote:
           | If we're considering all possibilities, I think you need to
           | consider the possibility that it's simply because we have
           | front-facing cameras now, so taking it yourself is much
           | easier than it used to be. It's hard to take a selfie with a
           | traditional camera.
        
         | be_nice wrote:
         | > I feel that this is a perfect case of Occam's razor. As in we
         | take selfies because we want to take a photo of ourselves
         | 
         | I think this is just jumping up a level of abstraction,
         | abstracting away precisely what this article is attempting to
         | explain.
        
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