Blog post #5: Know your self-ie

Photos are very powerful when it comes to expression. Sometimes it depicts what the photographer wants us to see but other people see it just as a plain picture of a woman facing the camera but what they don't know is that there is more than meets the eye.

I have read an article in tulsaworld.com entitled "Selfies and the mind-set of those who post them" by Bravetta Hassell, she interviewed a woman named Ashleigh Stafford and Ashleigh said that before even the mainstream social media sites today were born, she used to do selfie using a digital camera and she posts it in MySpace but back then she didn't post anything that would make her be a laughing stock in the community, instead she posted pictures of herself with her snakes, when she changed the color of her hair and she even shows off her tattoos in MySpace and she doesn't post everyday or every hour, she only post pictures when she has a new look or on special occasions but that was her when she was a teenager but now that she is an adult, yes she still post pictures of herself, but she is now mindful what he post in the social media because she knows it is very dangerous not to filter your pictures first because it can be used against you she also said that she's not posting pictures of herself just to let the world that that's her in the picture, she posts picture to tell everybody what kind of person is she on the inside because for her taking selfies is taking pictures of her moments in her life. Another individual that Bravetta interviewed is Carla Gregory, Gregory said she never paid attention to what selfie is until comes the time that she was forced to do it because she travels a lot and she wants to capture her priceless moments of her life in a place she visited for the first time, for her the selfies she made around the world is a reminder for her that she already transformed into a more independent, fearless, strong and adventurous she is today and she shares it with her friends and family.

Gregory and Stafford stated an opinion on how the teens post their selfies, they said those moments are not even worth sharing in the social media, the duck faces, the mirror selfie and worst the booty selfie. They should start reliving the moment of their lives and start making memorable moments because they can only be a teenager once.

This article interests me because it made me think that I should start making memorable moments of my life too. I can only be a teenager once anyway so, why not, we shouldn't waste our time doing silly selfies we should make the most out of it and when we grow up, become responsible adults we can be proud to show the memories we had when we are teenagers to our future children and maybe they would the same.

Bravetta Hassell said, "Take the guy on Twitter showing off his six-pack in one of those notorious bathroom selfies, or Rihanna on Instagram in a super close-up shot. Her hand is over her mouth for some reason, and all you see is her eyes. The eyes and the six-pack might be the focal point, but the message is clear: This is about me."

This quote really says it all about selfie. It's all about you. You control yourself, your body and your mind. No one can stop you from taking it. Your selfies an actually be your own 'picture-journal' of yourself that you've already changed from being teenager to a full-grown adult.

Now at this point of view selfie for other people is like a reminder for them how much they have grown for the past years and be proud of what they are now and be happy with it because they fulfilled something that can never be taken away from them. But some people are still newbie in selfie and what they do is just take photos of themselves in a mirror and that's it but what they don't know is what their selfie is all about.


I have read an article about knowing your selfie entitled, "Plato: Know Thy Selfie" by Dominic Basulto in bigthink.com  states that there is another how selfie became so popular, he said that it is a tchnological version of "Know Thyself" by the Greek Philosophers,one of which was Plato, Plato said that it is impossible to understand the world without knowing yourself first. But maybe this technology that we have today is giving us unique insights and give us the power to document our memorable moment and we're just using it the wrong way. All of us struggle to know our identity but with the help of modern technology we get to express ourselves with ease thought some people won't accept you for who you are and that's the down side of it, whether it modern technology or not, you will always be rejected by people.

This article interests me because Plato is really right. The hardest thing about yourself is to accept oneself and be proud of it. You'll have to go through hard obstacles first before you even realize that the first thing you should do is to accept who you really are and embrace it

Dominic Basulto said, "Consciously or not, we're all struggling to understand our identity in a modern, technological world. We all want to understand how we are changing on a weekly, or even daily, basis. And the ease of a selfie solves all that."

With this quote,  it made me realize,am I really changing? because you won't even know how you are changing whether physical or mental and the only one who can tell that are the people around you, though it's hard but you really have to dig deep inside yourself to find who you really are.

I guess some people really are having trouble in finding their true self, but I guess with the help of technology now it is easier for us to be able to find who we really are by the use of selfie, some people use this to document themselves and after a few years they will look at it and see how they have changed. Maybe selfie is not really bad after all.