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What I got from the articles is that the science behind selfies is deeper than we just use cameras because we have them. It taught me that a lot use them to see what they look like from a different view subconsciously. I overall think we take selfies so that we can tell stories, share what we look like, or let others get in on our experiences.

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I believe people take selfies to either show what they're doing through their background or just to show I nice little picture of how beautiful they are.

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In my opinion, people take selfies to make great memories or try to remember the good memories they made. Of course there are those who take them for attention or to be seen but it doesn't always have to be a negative thing to love yourself in your skin.

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I believe people post selfies to boost their ego even more by receiving compliments from their peers and then to boast about how many people have seen them looking their best.

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in my opinion people take selfies to show what their doing and to just waste time

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in my opinion people take selfies to show what their doing and to just waste time

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It is my opinion that people now a days rely on selfies to show a side of them they can't show in the real world. Young people are so focused on how they appear to others, and if they don't look like a certain someone, they try until they do. Selfies are a "fashion" trend everyone follows. There is a few people who use a selfie as a way to communicate with others, or to document a moment in time.

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The advancement of technology allows people to do more with their portraits. Nowadays, "selfies" are becoming an everyday thing for a lot of people. We spend most of our time analyzing people's faces, and we rarely see ours. We take selfies for ourselves and for everyone else. Posting the selfies can be a way to show off their lifestyle to their followers, friends, and family.

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I believe that people take selfies to show others their life. They take them so that they can show others what adventures they've done, show family or friends, or things in the past to just keep for old memories. Posting them on social media is the fastest way to show others your selfies that you've taken, whether it be to show close friends or people you don't know.

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I think people take selfies to share to friends and random people on social media, so they can get compliments from them. Out of all they get confidence and joy in the knowing that people like or adore their post. I don't think the resources are all true because everyone takes selfies for different reasons.

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I think people take selfies for self image. People have an image that they would like to look like, not what they look like in reality. Girls and boys on social media see how others look and want to copy how they look because they don't like how they actually look. For example, in the article "Science behind the selfie," it says that we spend most of our time interpreting other people's faces! People also take selfies to "show off." Many people on social media like to brag about how they look compared to others. It makes them feel better about themselves.

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It is my personal understanding that there are two reasons selfies are taken. One, we as people, creatures that crave personal validation and satisfaction, take selfies to strut our stuff for a lack of a better term. All over social media selfies are found with a caption of "felt cute, probably gonna delete later" just to receive comments like "cute" "handsome" "don't delete", so that our self-confidence is boosted and our peers can see how we want to look. Two, people take selfies to save cherished memories with friends and family to reflect on later down the road. These types of selfies also keep our peers up to date on what has been going on with our lives.

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I believe that we are "selfie" driven because many people like to brag about themselves. As a society socail media is a way poeple can express themselves and is often used to show off your looks or your lifestlyle. Some people take social media to a whole new level and think of everything as a competition, so they want to get the most reactions to make themselves feel better.

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From what I have read, I think that selfies can be several things. They can be a competition of who has the most attractive face. Or to seek approval of others to make you feel better about your insecurities, or perhaps just have a better understanding of how others see you. Selfies can also be a 'visual journal' of sorts. You can use them to show others places you've been, or who you've been out with. You can use them to keep track of how you features change over time. Selfies can mean a lot of things, I think it just depends on the person on how they decide to use them.

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From what I've read, I believe that selfies are a competition, to fill our insecurity, and to tell a small part of our life. We generally let others see them because either we want to show our bright faces and show what is going on in our life or the want of an opinion to help find what we ought to hear. We are perceived to be perfect meaning other opinions are necessary however, we don't really know what perfect is so we want to believe what we want to look like but not we actually look like.

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I think people take selfies to build a image of of themselves that they want to look like. You can control your image when you take a selfie because you can take so many pictures but only post the only one that you think is your favorite. Some people live in a virtual world and they get so caught up in the attention that they post selfies to give themselves a name or image.

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My takeaways from these three resources are to remember to maintain "real-life" relationships and to have in-person conversations. We genuinely look to selfies to fill a vacancy and a "void" in themselves that they are not getting face-to-face. I also think that people take selfies so often because they are trying to express how they feel. Such as, in "The Science Behind Why We Take Selfies" article it says, "through our lifetimes we become experts and recognizing other people's faces and facial expressions", that's the reasoning behind why we are all so eager to see our own face.

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I believe people use it to show what they are currently doing in life and as a way to express themselves. Selfies has given society a new way to express each individual on whatever we want to express ourselves with.

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I believe that everyone take selfies because it tell our stores about life or our day and we just want that good attention. Now what i took from the video was that some people love taking pictures of themselves because they care about what others say about them and pictures make people feel like they matter in life

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I really don't know why we take selfie maybe we use it just to be seen like to show people we are and here and still alive. I also think they take selfies to show how they are feeling.

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I think the reason why people take selfie's are to remind them the funny they were having when they were real happy.Also they want to feel good about themselves!.Also many people are self driven to do thing's

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Society has changed a lot over the past few decades. One of those being the development of the selfie. In my eyes, people have become more opposed with themselves. We take selfies because we always want to be seen the way we perceive ourselves. Selfies is pretty much the perfect solution.

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Zion Smith i think we are self driven because we like to brag about our lives. many of us want to show what we brought, how we look, and what our lifestyle are like. so when you say is it "Vain"; yes i do think it is vain, because your bragging about yourself. but in reality you aren't even living the way people see you ON social media....

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Zion Smith i think we are self driven because we like to brag about our lives. many of us want to show what we brought, how we look, and what our lifestyle are like. so when you say is it "Vain"; yes i do think it is vain, because your bragging about yourself. but in reality you aren't even living the way people see you ON social media....

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What I got from the information I read is that selfies can be done in different ways u look at it. My opinion on why I think people take selfies is because they want to see what other people see them as based on their looks. Like for example in the article The science behind why we take selfies it said that In everyday social situations we spend a lot of our time looking at and interpreting other people's faces and facial expressions. Indeed, reading and responding correctly to other people's facial expressions is essential for successful social interactions.

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People take selfies for the fun of things or just to express you're self.  If the person is happy taking selfies and happy with there life then let them be. It doesn't matter to me because i can care less about selfies.

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People are different, some people do it for attention and others do it for competition. I agree with the article because people love seeing how others react to their selfies and for the fun of it.

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My personal opinion in why we take selfies is because people want to have attention in life or they Just want to let people know what is happening in there world.

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I believe as a society we are selfie driven because it makes us feel better about ourselves when someone says something positive about it. People will also just take selfies because they would like to let people know what they're doing throughout the day. As stated in the article (Why Do We Take Selfies?), "People are wrestling with how they appear to the rest of the world." People will end up trying to make sure when they take selfies that they need to look perfect.

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We take selfies to either prove how good we look, let people know we are trendy, and to connect with the opposite sex. I personally take selfies just when asked of me i don't like being so obsessed with myself that i have to post frequently to let people know how good i look i really don't care.

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People in the world today use selfies as a way to get validation from others because now a days people are scared of face to face communication.  Like stated in the article 'Why do we take selfies?"  “People are wrestling with how they appear to the rest of the world." People may appear as not attractive to the part of the world where people know them through face to face contact, so they try appear beautiful to the rest of the world so they can be "lifted up" metaphorically to counteract how they are in reality.

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I don't think there is any one way to describe selfies, i didn't take much out of anything from the articles so i would agree with he confession portion people want attention and to have a reaction from someone with the same problems they have so they can feel comforted by not being the only one with having mistakes and i can prove it because we used to live in a confessing world and we fell the need to tell others our mistakes and problems or achievements my personal opinion is that people take them and no one person has the same agenda and all ways has different motives for doing anything, even when it comes to selfies. Someone could take it just for attention and another for information purposes  everyone is different when it comes to selfies.

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I think this generation is selfie driven because sometimes we need someone's feedback or reaction to what we look like.  “People are wrestling with how they appear to the rest of the world,” Mr. Thompson said. “Taking a photograph is a way of trying to understand how people see you, who you are and what you look like, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”  Some people do take selfies just because they want to and the'yre feeling themselves.

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I believe that each article is somewhat correct. I mostly agree with the fact that people will take selfies to get attention ("The science behind why we take selfies"). I agree with that statement because that is how most people (especially our age) are now-a-days. But, other people take selfies to just have fun or because they're bored. Not all people take selfies to get attention, but not all people take selfies just because.

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We take selfies as a form of expression and sometimes as a need for validation from others. Some people spend a long time taking them. They want to see the reactions of others and it makes them feel more confident. Selfies that are posted are usually chosen because the person looks young and attractive. In the article, "The science behind why we take selfies", James Kilner explains that "we are able to take and retake pictures of ourselves until we can produce an image that come closer to matching our perception of what we think we look like." I agree with this statement because our society is becoming driven by our reputation and comments from others.

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I believe that everyone in our society who take selfies they want to have that attention and care about what other people say about them. What i takeaway form the three resources are that people love to take pictures and our pictures tell our stores about our day or life

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I feel like some people thrive off the attention they get when they post selfies on social media. I know of people who if they don't get a certain amount of like and comments within a certain time period they will delete and do it all over again. Also, celebrities play big role on a individual's perspective on selfies. When their followers see them post a picture thy feel the need to do the same in hopes they receive the same positive reaction. Lastly, in today society one picture can change a person's life overnight. You post a picture and wake up with thousand of likes, new followers, and/or retweets. I agree with what the video said, people do feel like they have to take and post selfies for validation. They might also feel like it is a way to fit in so they don't seem "boring" to the rest of the world

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I Think we are selfie driven because people take them to show what they are doing in life. What I takeaway from the three resources are that alot of people like to take selfies to get attention in life.

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I think we are selfie driven because we want others to see how we are doing or what we are doing. I dont think it's about vanity, i think its about just being human and wanting others to see us growing. I dont believe it is necessarily a bad thing. I actually think its a good thing because if posting a picture is the only way for someone to interact with others then hey

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Most selfies are taken to show off the person taking the picture, but pictures are for remembering a memory of an event/action, right? So why be narcissistic when you can share the light with other people? What I have got from these articles and video clips is that our society nowadays is very self-driven. People taking selfies don't take a picture of their self and post it just for nothing. People like gaining attention, and posting a picture of their self is how they do it. Though the selfie gives a special kind of satisfaction, it makes the person's mindset a little more egotistic or narcissistic each time they take a selfie.

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Our society is so selfie driven because people constantly look for approval and love. Some people use them to get attention that's not being provided enough in real life.

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I think our society is very selfie driven because it makes us feel better when others praise our image or with our generation "like" our images. We do typically choose to post pictures that make us look more attractive because we don't want others to see us as we normally look. We post how we want to look and how we want people to think we always look.

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I agree with a portion of BBC's article that says people usually portray themselves as younger or more attractive than they are. Rather than looking in the mirror, we'd rather look at a projection of ourselves as what we'd rather look like. It's not so much vanity as it is wanting to feel confident or hiding from insecurities.

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The takeaway from these resources is that yes, we as a society are selfie driven, but that isn't inherently a bad thing. While some may see the selfie as a way for the current generation being super vain, it is more than that. It is a way for our society to confess to others what is going on it our lives, and the problems that may be arising in our lives.

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I think we are so selfie driven is because we love the thought of other people seeing how great we look, how fun we are having, or just want people to know what we are doing.

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From what I have learned today it seems as if we take selfies as validation from others. Also, we do it to get a better clarification as to what we actually look like, one article stated we can not replicate on of our own expressions without visually looking at our self.

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I really believe everyone is different, people use selfies for competition. People use it to share important events or information to others, and some people just want to show the world how they are.

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I believe that selfies arn't out of vanity to most, but just to show and express who you are. Everyone wants to express their own uniqueness. The selfie is just one resource that lets them.

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I think that modern society is "selfie-driven" due to our constant need for validation and approval. Although we may take pictures of ourselves to keep memories, many times they are taken to promote themselves. Especially in high school and middle school, many teens are faced with self-esteem issues as well as trouble in discovering their human identity. By posting selfies of themselves, some may rely on the number of likes or positive comments on whether or not they keep it on their "feed".

My takeaway from this would be that although selfies can be used to keep memories, it is mainly used for self-validation and to feed the egos of those in need of approval.

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Today's mindset "Why interact with people yourself when WiFi can do it better."

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The world at the moment is fueled by egos and vanity

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I think we are so " selfie driven" because we get to see everybody else's faces but we never get to see our own. And I think we like to get compliments when we do post selfies because it makes us feel good about ourselves. I try to comment something nice on someone else's picture so they can feel better about themselves. Older people might call it vain or egotistical but they did similar things when they were our age too.