When you take a selfie, do you think about what others might think or how they can interpret it?Lao Zi said, Don’t you try to show up, doesn’t the sage who knows his superior essence get involved in narcissism or exalt himself?
The truth is that nowadays a selfie is almost as common as talking on the phone or sending a message, you arrive at a new place or you share an activity with friends, you take your mobile phone and you take a photo.
- Why are we doing this?Or simply because you want to send it to a friend.
- Could it be for the simple pleasure of seeing you.
- The truth is that although the selfie is almost automatic.
- It carries a number of psychological implications.
Recently, researchers at Ohio State University in the United States conducted a study that made surprising discoveries on the subject. Let’s look at some of the messages that can be sent with this practice.
Another study, conducted at the University of Buffalo in the United States, also showed interesting fact: people who share more photos of you on social media show that your self-esteem is based primarily on others’ opinion of them.
That is, they refer to personalities and moods very exposed to the opinion and assessment of others, this will depend to a large extent on the level of self-ception, selfies will be vital at this point because they will mark your Self-Esteem due to the host wing?spread by his followers.
Another study, conducted by psychologists at the University of Birmingham in the UK, found that people who take more selfies tend to have worse relationships with those around them, everything is more superficial and based on image, rather than intimacy, generosity or just personal affinities. Why is this happening?
Is there a solution to these problems? In fact, there’s nothing wrong with a selfie, disagreements start when an excess occurs. Narcissism is not new, these photographs simply highlight the situation.
People obsessed with their image always exist and will exist. Oscar Wilde masterfully recorded this reality in “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” more than a century ago. The solution is to seek a sensitive psychological balance, in which the image projected through selfies does not become a greater concern than what happens in real life.