selfish selfies?

- Hey cam, you don't like me and I don't like you, but we have to make this in the best way. So please! Take me the best photo ever! I have to look beautiful, cool, sexy, hot...you know why? Because I'll post the pic on every single social network I am...and you know, I must have a lot of likes and comments about my pic, about the beautiful I am, about the well I look...and YOU, mirror! You have to behave in a good way, you can make me look slim or fat, cute or ugly, clean or dirty. So please, help me! At least this time, because you never help me to look good. So, are you ready, my good friends? Are you going to do a good work with me? Okey, mirror clean, cam on...hands stop shaking, cause I need a straight picture...Okey, that's it, good, smile on, eyes open, hair combed, tummy in, trimmed clothing...3..2..1..flash!

Well, was it funny? Did you feel identified with this "story"? I am not going to judge anybody for this kind of photos, the so-called "selfies", but I think that it is an interesting phenomenon to speak about. It's okey if people want to take photos about themselves, even when they are alone, but it's just that we seem to be so worry about the way we look, and it seems that we are in a kind of competition about who has the best photo on facebook or instangram (or any other social networks), and we are worry about that, about such a superficial thing, because in fact a photo just shows our body, and not who or what we really are. 

We want other people to like us, other people to comment about us, other people to look at us, and we are the center of the universe, or at least that's what we want/think. We want to be known, to be famous, the more likes we get, the more happy we get, and this is something that in general we cannot escape. As any other social fact, this phenomenon is imposed on us and we act as zombies: all of us take photos of ourselves, and all of us posted photos on many social networks, and all of us are expected other people to like or comment our photos (of course "all of us" is just a way to express the idea, there are many people who don't belong to that group).

But stop! I should be speaking about the famous selfies and I think I beat around the bash. Why selfish selfies? First, it sounded funny, and second I think we are a bit selfish when we take a selfie. We are thinking about ourselves and not about others, of course this has to do with the society in general. Nowadays we live in a selfish society, people who think just about themselves, who don't worry about others, just their problems, just their lifes, inside of their secure private property, never putting themselves in someonelse's shoes...But well, it's not our fault! We live in this society (capitalist, consumerist, wicked, unjust...), and who we are depends on the ideas, values, beliefs, manners, that are floating in our society. However, we can develop an awareness about this and be better persons (aw! I know sometimes I can be such an idealist dreamer, or better say, such an idiot).