I’ve never once taken a selfie. I don’t hate them. I just don’t get them. If I want a picture that has myself in it, why not choose one that someone else took where I’m doing something fun or interesting? The best part of photos is catching and preserving the moment. A photo you took yourself that’s pretty much just you, not doing anything special or memorable that you can tell from the shot, doesn’t seem to do that for me that well. I look at some of my favorite shots of myself and remember fun times about those moments or that period of my life and people that look at them can tell something about me in those times,too. Just snapping my own face staring at the camera on a typical Tuesday doesn’t seem like it would have that. I get wanting a picture that just shows what you look like in general. But couldn’t that aim still be achieved with a cooler pic than a selfie? A pic of you and the people and things that show what you were into at the time catches what you look like PLUS other important stuff. If I need a “better” pic of myself than a snapshot of something or somewhere or some time memorable, it probably needs to be better than a selfie,too It probably needs to be a photo taken by someone else who is focused on taking a good photo of me. If it can be as casual as a selfie, I want something more interesting. If it needs to be so portrait-like that casual shot of something interesting going on won’t cut it, I want something more professional and high quality than a selfie.
