Nowadays ‘selfies’ are so popular so the later word ‘killfies’ are coming up as a result of psycological effects of social media. Taking selfies become culture. Accessibility of affordable camera phones or smartphones makes almost every young and old alike enjoying taking selfies. Some take selfies to commemorate events, some to keep memories while others take selfies to gain social media popularity with a number of “likes’ and flattering ‘comments’ accumulated online which motivates especially young to take things too far because they get happy when people react to it.
Many youngsters feel a kind of high for being liked by people so taking selfie is addicted to them because of the tendencies of attention seeking.
An idiotic is that some even risk his/her own life taking selfies in high-risk zones just to get ‘likes’ and ‘comments’ on social media.
This craze invites demon that exert in taking dangerous selfies that leads to fatalities to the person trying to click is what has been nicknamed as ‘KILLFIES’. The scholars defined killfies as “a death of an individual or a group of people that could have been avoided had the individual(s) not been taking a selfie”.
We hear a growing cases of selfies related accidents, casualties and deaths around the globe. It occur when people try to click dangerous selfies in front of oncoming trains or while standing close to the edge of cliffs or mountains or terraces of sky-rise buildings or rooftops or drowns in water. Some even take selfies while driving forgetting to focus on to driveway led to casualties.
We have influenced by the world social media popularity; are no exception from this selfie menace which can happen to you and me if we take the most weirdest places for click.
It’s a fool if we paid our own lives because of taking dangerous selfies. How one could risk his own life just to take a perfect selfie and gain popular in social networking sites.
Love of taking selfies is not bad but if you takes ‘likes’ and ‘views’ seriously on the social media, you would be feeling to show the world that your life is the most happening of all; and this may lead to craziest extents to create an image focus more on what people think of you, but not thinking on what would follow consequences. One must discern the risk places while taking photos.
Seeing the youths selfieing small kids often tend to do selfie in the absence of elders which parents or guardians should not be ignored to look, as such thing of accident will happen to their kids too.
Nonetheless social media is self-regulatory in nature so must be regulated ourselves and use wisely in positive aspect knowing fully about the dangers you would end up hurt or dead in the process. Enjoy taking safe selfies!
Bausha Pauwung Buchem
