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- 0:08Speaker 1: Hey everyone, so my name is Lauren. My YouTube channel
- 0:11Speaker 1: is Cosmo for Confidence. You can see my information below
- 0:13Speaker 1: to find my own videos, but today I'm doing a
- 0:16Speaker 1: video for Psych2Go. net. To find out more about the discussion
- 0:21Speaker 1: I'm going to have today, go to the Selfie Chronicles.
- 0:24Speaker 1: It's not that bad, is it? You can find the
- 0:26Speaker 1: link below. The author is Risha Mae Ordoff. So I'm
- 0:29Speaker 1: sure many people have heard about why selfies are bad.
- 0:33Speaker 1: I know a lot of people say, why are younger
- 0:35Speaker 1: people taking selfies? Because It's terrible for you. But then
- 0:40Speaker 1: you have people who are younger who say, I love
- 0:42Speaker 1: selfies because I love taking a picture of myself, posting
- 0:46Speaker 1: it online, and seeing people compliment me, basically. So what
- 0:50Speaker 1: are the actual problems with taking selfies? According to Dr.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Pamela Retledge, she did a study for the psychology in
- 0:58Speaker 1: taking selfies. And she stated that taking selfies is detrimental
- 1:02Speaker 1: to a person's mental health. narcissism, low self-esteem, and attention-seeking behavior.
- 1:09Speaker 1: When I read this article at first I completely understood
- 1:12Speaker 1: that because the main reason why people take selfies is
- 1:15Speaker 1: to get that attention, to get people to like their photo,
- 1:18Speaker 1: to give them a compliment. And taking too many selfies
- 1:21Speaker 1: isn't a mental disorder but it does have characteristics of
- 1:25Speaker 1: body dysmorphic disorder. Body dysmorphic disorder basically is is the
- 1:29Speaker 1: mental illness that involves that one's own appearance is defective
- 1:33Speaker 1: and that it has a flaw and that other people
- 1:35Speaker 1: can see that flaw. And I know many people spend
- 1:41Speaker 1: sometimes hours trying to get that perfect selfie. A lot
- 1:43Speaker 1: of people have this whole thing about them that they
- 1:46Speaker 1: want a certain angle and what's the perfect smile? What's
- 1:49Speaker 1: the look you want? And you end up taking a
- 1:51Speaker 1: million selfies and you always try to find the perfect one.
- 1:55Speaker 1: So what's the whole thing with this is you are
- 1:57Speaker 1: trying to find the perfect selfie and most of the
- 2:00Speaker 1: time say you have a pimple on your face you
- 2:03Speaker 1: will do anything to hide that pimple and you can
- 2:06Speaker 1: do that with selfies you can angle it differently you
- 2:09Speaker 1: can edit the selfie if you wanted and it completely
- 2:12Speaker 1: makes you look at your own flaws and make sure
- 2:15Speaker 1: that you don't show them there are good things about
- 2:17Speaker 1: taking selfies I know sometimes I like to take a
- 2:20Speaker 1: selfie I think I look nice and sometimes I like
- 2:22Speaker 1: seeing that people compliment me so You know, it's human.
- 2:27Speaker 1: I think it's human. What do you think? I want
- 2:28Speaker 1: to hear what you think, so make sure you write below.
- 2:31Speaker 1: What do you think are the pros and cons about
- 2:34Speaker 1: taking selfies? And check out the article itself so you
- 2:38Speaker 1: can read more about it. Make sure you visit psych2go. net.
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