Blogpost 4: PhiloSelfie

When we are taking selfie shots, they said that we are sharing and expressing our feeling whenever we upload our photos online. It seems like it is one of the activity of teenagers and the middle aged people today.

According to Dominic Basulto, author an article Plato: Know Thy Selfie, Selfie is the modern day, technological version of what Philosophers referred to as Plato's saying

"Know Thyself". But seriously, if we upload a selfie shots to social networking sites, have we encountered to know ourself? Yes, taking selfie shows narcissism, but it also means that we are just sharing a fake persona of ourself. We are sharing our ideal image, not the real image of us. 

In the same article, it says that , "It wasn't just that there was "some low-level narcissism complex at work whenever anyone takes a selfie," as we've been led to believe. And selfies aren't just taken by teenage girls. There were a host of other factors as well. For example, a former TIME magazine news director says that taking a selfie helps him to reflect a specific mood and communicate something different about himself to others. One photojournalist said it was a way to add a bit of humanity to her photos and to understand better why her photos helped to engage the community." 

When smartphones became famous, and the phone camera as well, it became a big help for many people to take a picture to treasure every moment of their lives. Of course, sometimes, we are taking selfie because we treasure every moment or because it is a memorable day.

But whenever something is improving like the technologies, there is also a consequences of becoming worse scenario. According to Heffernan, author of an article, "Towards a Philosophy of the Selfie"Now that superstylized images have become the answer to “How are you?” and “What are you doing?” we can avoid the ruts of linguistic expression in favor of a highly forgiving, playful, and compassionate style of looking. When we live only in language—in tweets and status updates, in zingers, analysis, and debate—we come to imagine the world to be much uglier than it is. But Instagram, if you use it right, will stealthily persuade you that other humans—and nature, and food, and three-dimensional objects more generally—are worth observing for the sheer joy of it."  Yes it is definitely true, whenever technologies improved, the old culture will be vanish or what we called "Cultural Extinction". There is also a quote of Albert Einstein's prediction "I Fear the Day That Technology Will Surpass Our Human Interaction".

Of course, the interaction of us humans are becoming what we called "high-tech". But the old culture is like vanishing. But lets just face it, everyday is a brand new day, and a brand new day means everyday changes. All of us humans should adapt to changes. Because nothing is permanent in this world. Technology is helping us to make life easier, its just making people dumb and lazy because of these technologies. But overall, Selfie is one of our new culture today, and time will come it will be change, improve and gone.