Selfies - What are they?

I must admit, I am one to take a lot of selfies. I make sure that I look good, I make sure the lighting is right and that I find the perfect angle, but what for? When we see photo's on Tumblr, Instagram or FaceBook of all of these beautiful people (male or female) we have an immediate rush of admiration and an urge to look as good as that.

With all of this technology nowadays, it is easy to hide flaws, and things that you don't want the world to see. This can be a positive, yet negative thing.

Have you ever met someone who looks amazing in their profile pictures and everything they post, but in real life, they look nothing like that? Or maybe it's the other way around; they look even more amazing in real life than you could have ever imagined from just looking at digital pixels put together to make out their face.

Technology and social media can give a very false interpretation and it can be very unhealthy to modern-day relationships between people. Like Tinder, for example. Of course there would have been AT LEAST 1 instance where someone thought that their "perfect match" looked as handsome as Zac Efron, but turned up to the date looking nothing like that.

In my opinion, there are two types of people who take selfies (and these two types can be broken down into little other categories but I'll just stick with the two for now). I totally made these up, and aren't always correct, you may be someone to fit into both of these categories. I know that some days I'm person 1, other days, person 2.

1. Unstable selfie-taker

• The person who takes 1000 selfies in a row, deletes 999, stares at the last one until it gets ugly, tries to use different apps to hide the blemishes 
• Uses 10 different adjustments and filters to make it look better
• This person may even take the brightness down to hide their face a little
• They hardly post selfies, and when they do, it's a really big deal for them and they want to take it down
• Usually oblivious to how beautiful they really are

2. Confident selfie-taker

• The person who likes how they feel, likes how they look and think its a great time to take a selfie, it's a perfect occasion so why not?
• They don't even need that many tries because they don't even care what they look like to every one else
• No filter or adjustments needed "no makeup, no filter xx"
• They post as many selfies as they want and whenever they want because they are confident in how they look
• Usually oblivious to how beautiful they really are

Now there could be other "types" of people who take selfies but I am pretty sure any of them could fit into either one of these two. 

In conclusion, taking selfies is a way that people like to give good impressions of themselves to the social media world. No one likes to be depicted badly, so we try so hard to maintain a certain standard of ourselves that sometimes is unrealistic. (I say "we" because I know I do it, and most likely you do too)