Are you a selfie addict?

Nope, never.

No.

Nah. I’ll take one of I feel particularly pretty one day, but that’s about it. Maybe twice or three times a year.

Nope. I think I can count on one hand how many times I’ve taken selfies. In front of Uluru is one place and at Christmas with my family and children is another.

Nope. Everybody that would see it already knows what I look like.

@Earthbound_Misfit: someday I would love to see Uluru!

It is amazing @canidmajor. It is as stunning as it looks in photos and so majestic. I love the colours of the outback.

Nope. My cover one is of me leading a hike taken by someone else. Never have felt the need for a selfie.

Yep. I also have really low self esteem and selfies often make me feel better on days that I feel like I’d rather jump off a cliff than be seen in public. My therapist actually recommends them as a sort of exercise in reassessing how others see me vs how I see myself. I liked selfies before her suggestion, but I’ve found she’s right in the way that it’s helpful. I have terrible anxiety about having my photo taken by other people so being in control of the camera is a lot easier for me. I also love other people’s selfies.

Never taken one. Too many wonders out there to capture!
Besides, I know what I look like.
The Kardashians have that market covered for 2 billion people’s- worth.

Definitely not an addict, but I take them once in a while. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. One of the reasons I do it is because I’m a huge introvert and don’t hang out with a ton of people very often, so if I want a profile picture to actually be representative of myself, I have to take it.

Nope. Confident in my beauty and self worth. I never understood the point of selfies and can’t play along with the pathetically blatant need for a compliment. I unfriend people who post selfies frequently. If I feel like complimenting someone, I will without being prompted. I won’t be manipulated into it.

Not an addict, but after losing 20 lbs last spring I started to take the occasional selfie as I began to feel better about myself. I usually just use them as a fb profile picture.

I also have low self-esteem and don’t like to have my picture taken, but I’m often the one taking pictures so there are very few photos of me from the past decade or so.

A good point about there being no other photos, @dammitjanetfromvegas. I’ve recently tried to take more photos (selfie style) with other people because there are so few pictures of me since my self image issues/camera anxiety is not exactly a recent development. I’ve been with my husband for 11 years and up until recently you could count the number of photos of us together on one hand.

No, but my wife does it all the time. It must be a symptom of being terminally cute.

@Jak I think it’s pretty presumptuous of you to assume that everyone who takes selfies is doing it for “the pathetically blatant need for a compliment”.

@DigitalBlue I think I have a total of five couple pics of Jon and I from the past 24 years. That’s not including wedding photos.

I’m just a faceless yellow squash on Fluther, and elsewhere I’m a faceless different kind of plant. So no, unless you count flora.

I think I can count the number of “selfies” I have taken on one hand.

I wonder why there’s so much attraction for selfies anyway..firstly it doesnt come good..taking photo of yourself..thing more popular with youngsters i guess..kind of show off we can say??

I have a number of Internet-only friends and I am delighted that they take selfies, it helps me visualize them better in all sorts of circumstances. Just because I don’t, doesn’t mean I am more confident or less desirous of attention, I just express it differently.

The attitude out there that “people who take lots of selfies are just attention whores” baffles me. It is human nature to want to be noticed by other humans, we are social animals. We go about getting attention in different ways.

@DrasticDreamer. You are correct. My language was much too strong and my sentiment much too ungenerous. I gues I was referring mostly to two specific people and then applying it across the board. My reasons for irritation at the whole selfie thing are complex and this is not the place to expound. I should have tempered my words.

@dammitjanetfromvegas same here, and I loathe my wedding photos. I figured it was something I might regret. Selfies may not be the ideal solution, but at least there will be some evidence of our youth together if I ever need to reference it for the sake of nostalgia.

One thing I think is interesting is that there seems to be quite a few people (in general, not on here) that think self-love is a bad thing. I mean, don’t get me wrong. It’s different when the only thing someone does is take selfies, because then it does indicate that there’s some kind of emotional problem (which still doesn’t necessarily warrant judgement), but for people who do it in moderation, to me, it falls along the same lines as recognizing the good in ourselves. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, especially in certain societies (America is one of them) that have deemed it acceptable to self-hate openly and without abandon. Really, though, which is going to do more damage? I think it’s awesome when people can recognize the things in themselves that make them feel good. Physical or not. Everyone ages, so what’s wrong with taking pictures to remember yourself by?

Taking selfies in itself isn’t a bad thing..as you mentioned you would like to maintain pitcorial memories of you..nothing wrong with it..question arises when there is obsession for uploading to social sites and waiting for responses from freinds / getting hurt if someone posts something negative about it..deciding popularity based on no. of likes your pic got..taking undue risks for it..thats where the problem lies..it has been reasarched that people who are publishing intrinsic details about their personal life are found to have emotional issues….

Nope, I almost never take them. I would much rather take a picture of scenery or of other people.

^ me too. There are very few photographs with me in them. I’m always on the other side of the camera, but taking photos of me does not interest me. Like @dammitjanetfromvegas suggested though, I’m conscious of how few photos there are of me and as I get older, I realise those who love me will want some record of my existence. So perhaps I should take more selfies when I’m out doing interesting things! I just wouldn’t want to share them. I respect those who do this, but it’s not me.