SELFIE means "Self-taken Camera Picture". A SELFIE is a self-portrait photograph. They are typically taken with a digital camera or camera phone and are often posted on social-media networks (like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram).

• A new study examined how people perceive others' Instagram accounts, and whether those perceptions match up with how the posters rate their own personalities.
• The results show that people react far more positively to "posies," which are photos of the poster taken by another person.
• Still, it remains unclear exactly why people view selfies relatively negatively.

In a new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality, psychologists found that people who post selfies are far more likely to be perceived negatively than people who post "posies" – photos of the poster taken by another person.

The researchers asked 30 undergraduates to fill out a personality questionnaire and for permission to use 30 of their Instagram photos for an experiment. These 30 Instagram posts were coded based on theme – such as physical appearance, affiliation with others, and accomplishment – and stripped of captions and other text.

Then, the researchers asked a second group of undergraduates to rate the Instagram profiles for 13 attributes, such as self-absorption, self-esteem, loneliness, and successfulness. The results showed that Instagram users who posted more posies than selfies were rated "higher in self-esteem, more adventurous, less lonely, more outgoing, more dependable, relatively fond of trying new things, more successful, more likable, and as potentially being a good friend," the researchers wrote.

In contrast, users who posted relatively more selfies were rated as "having lower self-esteem, disliking adventure, more lonely, less outgoing, disliking trying new things, less successful, and less likable."

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Dangers of Selfies

One of the fastest growing but mad areas of taking selfies is the dangerous selfie where people deliberately take a selfie of themselves at the top of a very tall building, cliff or near dangerous animals.

The Internet is full of examples of dangerous selfies and an increasing number of people are dying just to get that ultimate shot.