Selfies Aplenty

Like it or not, technology has embedded itself in our culture. Many of us are certifiably addicted to our phones in our generation especially. Studies have shown that we can spend up to 23 days a year staring at our little rectangular screens!

It's sort of amazing to think of how much power is endowed to us by our cellphones. With the touch of a finger, you're able to access almost any bit of information you desire, provided you have good reception. But there are also more frivolous things our devices allow us to do, like take selfies. A lot of selfies. Enough selfies to make the word "selfie" the Oxford word of the year in 2013.

I am ever thankful for the ease of people-watching in my classes containing hundreds of people. There's always opportunity aplenty. And what better way is there to spend my economics lecture than to watch someone try to take the perfect selfie for like 5 minutes in class. You think I'm exaggerating? No my friends, I do not embellish, I only recite what are our beautiful human race has done.

Alright. So, this girl is sitting in front of me and she opens up Snapchat and checks herself out. She then proceeds to try every single filter in the entire app, trying different poses and angles the entire time. She spent a particularly long time on the dog filter, arguably the most basic and overused of all filters. Listen, I have nothing wrong with selfie taking. I understand. I take selfies too (my favorite filter was the one that made your face small), but this girl was taking it too far. There is a time and place for selfies, and economics is not the place. Perhaps a lot was riding on this Snap. Was this Snap was make or break for something? I guess not because after literally 5 minutes she gave up.

One of my favorite filters. This took me roughly 5 tries to get the lighting just how I liked. 

To all my Snapchatters out there, be confident in your selfies. You may think it takes 50 tries to get the perfect Snap, but with a little practice you can get that number down to the single digits.

Also, as a side note, I caught someone taking a picture of me again. He was sitting one row in front of me in my chemistry class and he turned on his front facing camera and quickly snapped  pic. I am really confused as to why people keep taking pictures of me. Can someone offer a hypothesis?