Selfie Addiction

The word "Selfie" was devised in 21st century and was declared the Word of the Year in 2013 by the Oxford Dictionaries. Selfie is nothing but holding your smartphone at arm's length and pointing the Camera at yourself to click pictures.

Selfie are norm now-a-days. You want them everywhere. The fetish for selfie even now being described as Syndrome. Broadly, Selfie Syndrome is divided into three categories:

1. Borderline Selfie
2. Acute Selfie
3. Chronic Selfie
   Selfie Syndrome has even created unknown dangers in the form of Selfie Anxiety and Selfitis. Selfie Anxiety ranges from Dismorphia, Dysphoria to vulnerability hangover. And Obsessive selfie taking has been classified as Selfitis.

There are many positive aspects of taking selfie, like for self expression, to create a memory, to boost confidence. And also there are plenty of negative attributes.

Despite of being a trend, selfie also have some disadvantages . There are listed as under: -

1. Mental Sickness: - Selfie are not harmful as long as you can overpower it. Taking Selfie during work or during a sad occasion is the indicator of mental Sickness.

2. Death caused by Selfie: - Selfie is one of the most dominant cause of mortality in the world. In 2014, a 21-year-old Spanish man was died by electric shock while taking a selfie from the top of the train.
   In 2015, a news channel reported that a 21-year-old fell off from the top of the mountain while capturing a selfie.

3. Cause Narcissism: - Some people are so Obsessed with their selfie that they can goto any extremes to take their best possible and thrilled selfie.

So, there are a lot of news stories like these, and the number is growing on a daily basis.

To conclude, Scientific communities has to come together for this new generation addiction. There is a shared responsibility of families, schools, industries, government and others in the public playing their part to reduce the harmful menace of Selfie Culture. And a lot of research is required for the same before it affects large population of the world.