Selfie : A deadly trend

When first I heard the word “Selfie” I found it quite innovative and good. It is their work to make technology useful as well as interesting. Selfe is a photograph that one has taken of oneself. But today when I hear this word it gives me three thoughts; a photo, trend and risk of life. Yes, a photo of one who is clicking, of course a trend too because every single person is crazy for it, and risk of life because it has been cause of deaths of number of peoples. They died because they made it obsession. Mostly the victim of selfie accidents are teenager or youth. Recently, 14 years old boy from Kanjurmarg (Mumbai), succumbed to the burn injuries he sustained due to electrocution, while trying to click a selfie, on the roof of a train. In March 2015, Seven Indian youths drowned while taking selfies on Mangrul Lake near Kuhi, about 20 km from Nagpur, India. Their boat had tipped over as they were standing up to pose. Not only in India, it is a craze or deadly trend in the whole world. In 2014, 11 people died while taking selfie and in 2015 till October, 27 people have died. It may appear small to us, but because of a selfie, 38 is a huge number of people who lost their life. Selfie became popular as you can listen in songs, and it also makes you famous. Say deadly trend, crazy craze or an addiction you mean selfie at last. People took selfie with their relative’s dead body; some took continuously 6 years to see change in their face. Danny Bowman, 19, left school and never went out of his house for 6 months in an attempt to take the best selfie of him. He spent 10 hours taking up to 200 selfies per day using his iPhone and even became aggressive when his parents tried to stop him. When he reached a point where he knew he was overly addicted, he tried to commit suicide by overdosing, but fortunately was rescued by his mum. Perhaps we should all bear in mind that a selfie addiction could be an indicator of something else. \Selfie affected our PM too, he started a campaign called “selfie with daughter” and then Shruti had criticized PM and tweeted "Seriously get over your selfie obsession Mr. PM. Be more than a photograph. Come on!" It is not about India only its about the world, why we become so much eager about new things that we forget that how to use it. What happens nowadays is that we don’t use things or technology, these things start using us, and result is in front of all. 38 deaths, some mental cases, few controversies and finally we say technology makes us useless, lazy and it’s harmful for us. No, technology is not doing anything wrong with us it is us who are using technology in wrong way, we are misjudging it. There are always two use of a thing, so can’t we use it in a good way or for betterment.