Selfie-takers tend to overestimate their attractiveness

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

 

[Cellmold]

 

[Numbly Aware]

If it makes someone do certain things (such as take numerous selfies to get approval from other people) in order to have a sense of self-worth, then yes.

There is a difference between enjoying something (attention), and having a need for it (self-worth). People don't play with their needs.

 

[Mole]

I'm capturing a picture of myself in the moment. I just don't see how that's a "false self." I'm not changing how I look for the selfie. It's just me, right here, right now.

The selfie is just you, right here, right now. You mean the camera never lies. It tells the unvarnished truth about you. Actually selfies are composed to regular rules to show us vanished, at our best.

And selfies are cliched, they follow a formula.

And my art teacher tells me that images always lie.

And one of the problems with social media is that we present ourselves so well with selfies, others feel envy.

And just imagine: there is a real person hiding behind just you, right here, right now.

And I am supposed to believe your image. What do you take me for?

 

[Tilt]

I take selfies because I get bored of my image fairly often. People say that I am attractive on a regular basis so who knows if I am delusional or not.

 

[Kanra Jest]

Attraction may just be a perception.

I like to express my odd style as Art. The only way to do that is through "selfies" so I wouldn't think that immediately makes me a narcissist through embracing a unique form of self expression.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

 

[Cold]

I don't, I can't stand looking at my face in the camera

 

[fetus]

The selfie is just you, right here, right now. You mean the camera never lies. It tells the unvarnished truth about you. Actually selfies are composed to regular rules to show us vanished, at our best.

And selfies are cliched, they follow a formula.

And my art teacher tells me that images always lie.

And one of the problems with social media is that we present ourselves so well with selfies, others feel envy.

And just imagine: there is a real person hiding behind just you, right here, right now.

And I am supposed to believe your image. What do you take me for?

Maybe you are overthinking this?

 

[Mole]

Maybe you are overthinking this?

One of the advantages of the intellectual life is you don't have to work. The Ancient Greeks discovered this 3,000 years ago and founded Western philosophy. And during WW II intellectuals didn't work and spent their time thinking and helped win the war.

Interestingly you can't work and think at the same time, so you can't be a working member of the working class and be an intellectual.

 

[fetus]

One of the advantages of the intellectual life is you don't have to work. The Ancient Greeks discovered this 3,000 years ago and founded Western philosophy. And during WW II intellectuals didn't work and spent their time thinking and helped win the war.

Interestingly you can't work and think at the same time, so you can't be a working member of the working class and be an intellectual.

ok

 

[ceecee]

One of the advantages of the intellectual life is you don't have to work. The Ancient Greeks discovered this 3,000 years ago and founded Western philosophy. And during WW II intellectuals didn't work and spent their time thinking and helped win the war.

Interestingly you can't work and think at the same time, so you can't be a working member of the working class and be an intellectual.

Reeeaaaaally?

 

[Mole]

Intellectuals and the Working Class

Reeeaaaaally?

Alan Turing was an intellectual who didn't work, was not a member of the working class who laid the foundations of computing and almost single handedly won WW II by cracking the German secret military code.

There are so many intellectuals who didn't work from Socrates in Ancient Greece to Charles Darwin in the British Empire. Socrates laid the foundations of Western philosophy and Charles Darwin created modern biology.

So it becomes plain that the first step is to get out of the working class. This is not as easy as it appears as the working class are anti-intellectual and so stop their members from thinking, even thinking about getting out of the working class. And the working class even have a perverse pride in themselves, and even form themselves into political parties such as The Know Nothing Party of the USA.

 

[reckful]

Alan Turing was an intellectual who didn't work, was not a member of the working class who laid the foundations of computing and almost single handedly won WW II by cracking the German secret military code.
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So it becomes plain that the first step is to get out of the working class. This is not as easy as it appears as the working class are anti-intellectual and so stop their members from thinking, even thinking about getting out of the working class. And the working class even have a perverse pride in themselves, and even form themselves into political parties such as The Know Nothing Party of the USA.

Um... that's the Alan Turing story that got told by Hollywood in The Imitation Game, but as explained here, it doesn't line up very well with the facts. Turing made some significant contributions to the code-cracking project, but he was one of thousands working on it, and the magnitude of his contributions was spectacularly exaggerated in that film.

Gee, Mole, this kind of reminds me of past posts of yours where you've talked about highly fictionalized versions of Jung and Myers as if you were actually describing Jung and Myers.

If a "Know Nothing Party" gets started here at Typology Central, maybe you'll want to join, eh? Even though you're clearly a bigtime intellectual.

 

[Blackout]

One of the advantages of the intellectual life is you don't have to work. The Ancient Greeks discovered this 3,000 years ago and founded Western philosophy. And during WW II intellectuals didn't work and spent their time thinking and helped win the war.

Interestingly you can't work and think at the same time, so you can't be a working member of the working class and be an intellectual.

Yes, but you have to be in an advantaged enough position to do something like thinking all day. I have experience from many that my book reading and desire for knowledge is often looked at or viewed as madness.

I don't know how many people have told me to "stop thinking so much" and almost view it as a mental illness. This, coming from different classes of people. Though more prevalent in those who are more cultured I suppose.

It's definitely more understood I think in the middle class, but I don' think it's altogether much different in it's understanding of it, at times. I would almost say the west is freaking anti-intellectual at this point. Everyone indulges and celebrates being "working class heroes" in some sense or another, and yet acknowledges the existence of any such thing all together. And I mean "working class hero" as that is very closely tied to cultural tradition and our heritage. To be proud of...I don't even know.

Being pragmatic and having common sense?

I suppose the only place you can get away with it, or provides safe haven (now) are post secondary learning institutions or working as professors or such things. Sadly though, many of that comes with the burden of massive debt now. It's starting to become a bit of a dead bird here.

 

[boomslang]

Finally, a study to help empirically validate the fact that selfie-takers are image-focused.

 

[Virtual ghost]

No surprise there.

 

[cosmic royal]

Meh, I don't take selfies because I genuinely don't care about that stuff.

But if anyone else enjoys it, to each their own I suppose.