This Selfi Craze?

[cupotee2]

Whats the obsession with these selfi pics where the people taking them pull silly faces and often drape themselves over each others shoulders...?

I was in a ladies clothes department store yesterday and witnessed 2 young girls setting themselves up to take one of these pictures...no doubt it was in Facebook withing seconds.

Just having a little moan....

[sherrardk]

I think when they have selfie sticks it looks so sad, like they're pretending the photo was taken by a friend or family member.

[-Talbot-]

Calm down, cupotee ...it's what us yung uns do, no harm in it!

[Svejk]

You shouldn't be hanging around ladies

[B00]

Nexttime you see some of 'em doing it, sidle up to em and gurn away

[Svejk]

oops- ladies clothes department store, Talbot.

[Arksided]

I don't need to pull a silly face, so no way would any appear on my FB page.

I don't get it either but each (millions) to their own I guess.

[Mamyalynne]

Not all that new a concept really.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie#History

[-Talbot-]

Everyone needs a hobby, svejk.

[ummmm]

In general they don't bother me but it's when they try to look sexy I just think 'I wonder how many years before they're all deleted'

Better than the stupid makeup they used to wear a few years back.

[gness]

Gness now looking at old photos for stupid make-up.....well it was the sixties, Ummmm.......☺

[rockyracoon]

It's not really much different to going into a photo booth and taking lots of stupid pictures. I think most of us were guilty of that many years ago.

[Nibble]

Found an one of you, gness....

https://institutemag.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/sixties_page_4.jpg

You've worn it well ♥

[ummmm]

It was when my daughter was a teenager. I used to cringe looking at her foundation....

Sixties makeup looks cool.

[gness]

Nibble....paint Twiggy lower lashes on those eyes and you have mine in the sixties......my eyes must have arrived at parties ten minutes before I did....x

[Stephen_G]

If you're crashing someone else's Selfie then you're Photobombing - it;s a subtle difference.

[gness]

I loved sixties make-up, Ummmm.....I still do quite heavy eyes but I think instead of sexy I now probably look sinister.....I shall have to stop when the wrinkles arrive I suppose...... :-(

[Prudie]

Oh yes rocky, I've got lots of booth photos from the past. In my mum's day it was cine film. This craze is just an extension of that with the bonus of instant technology.

[RATTER15]

How do they press the button to take a pic when they use a selfie stick?

[tonyav]

Some by Bluetooth, RATTER.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie_stick

[RATTER15]

I see. thanks.