Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 22 Issue 6

by a comment under that article by somebody called fuhhletch , I had grown up believing wholeheartedly that I was The Ugly One in my Teen Girl Squad. I knew I wasn't terribly hideous, but I felt I had quite a below average face. And all my life, I'd been told that average wasn't good enough, so how could I be happy with that? I wasn't. I was miserable, and my constant self-deprecation showed through my face, not doing me any favors. Increased frequency of sharing photographs of the self, regardless of the type of target sharing the photographs, is related to a decrease in intimacy. Most people really fail to get your good angles. Some people have the idea that liking someone’s photo will be exchanged by another like. Tracy Alloway comments, ‘The rise of social networking sites have led to changes in the nature of our social relationships, as well as how we present and perceive ourselves’. 19 At last the chapter shows that Selfies create an existential vacuum/void/segregation inside a human mind and it alienates a person from the others. It also turns a person from self to ‘other’. Normally when we have a photo, we do it by the dint of a photographer. Thus it segregates the person from his or her real life relationships. Dr Muhammad Torequl Islam, an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, in an article published in The Daily Star , wrote something that resonates with the idea of people’s tendency of expressing themselves differently from the way others do it. According to him, ‘People are always looking to express themselves differently from others. A selfie is a great tool for this purpose’. 20 Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians’ . “Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? 21 For example, if a person takes a Selfie and pretends to be asleep, that is not going to make him/ her look intelligent anyway because one can easily understand the flakiness behind it. Simple-one cannot have a Selfie while sleeping. In a paper h ilariously titled “ Tagger's Delight? Disclosure and liking behaviour in Facebook: the effects of sharing photographs amongst multiple known social circles ” four professors claim that 19 Tracy Alloway, Rachel Runac, Mueez Qureshi, and George Kemp, ‘Is Facebook Linked to Selfishness? Investigating the Relationships among Social Media Use, Empathy, and Narcissism’, Social Networking , 3 (3), 2014, pp 150-158. 20 Dr Muhammad Torequl Islam, ‘Selfitis: the selfie caused mental disorder’, The Daily Star , 4 July 2021, For a full discussion, see https:// www.thedailystar.net/health/disease/disease-control/news/selfitis-the- selfie-caused-mental-disorder-2122861 (accessed 16 September 2022). 21 Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot , New Delhi: Book World, 2001, p 119. people who post more selfies have shallow relationships with people . 22 V. T he D istortion of the I dea of S ecrecy ‘The culture industry has finally posited this imitation as absolute. Being nothing other than style, it divulges style’s secret: obedience to the social hierarchy’. 23 The formation of secrecy is being distorted by sharing Selfie in the social media in various ways. Julian Assange comments, ‘Facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented’. 24 Wherever you are, posting a selfie brings your personal life into light-brings you- ‘the performer!’- on the stage to be audienced. Joseph Turow, the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, warns people against sharing too many photos on social media. In one article published on Penn Today, he says, ‘The more photos reflect the context of a person and their relationships with others, the more that person can be denoted by their location which in turns allows hackers greater access to personal information’. Assange’s comment shows how we are being objectified and controlled. 25 22 David Houghton, Adam N. Joinson, Nigel Caldwell, and Ben Marder, ‘ Tagger's Delight? Disclosure and liking behaviour in Facebook: the effects of sharing photographs amongst multiple known social circles’ , Birmingham Business School Discussion Paper Series, No. 2013-03, University of Birmingham, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham, For a full discussion, see https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/ 202647/1/bbs-dp2013-03.pdf (accessed 16 September 2022). 23 Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, Dialectic of Enlightenment , Edmund Jephcott (trans), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2002, pp 103-104. 24 Don Resinger, ‘Assange: Facebook is an “Appalling Spy Machine”’, CNET , 3 May 2011, For a full discussion, see https://www.cnet.com/ home/smart-home/assange-facebook-is-an-appalling-spy-machine/ (accessed 5 September 2022). 25 Dee Patel, ‘The Dangers of Sharing Personal Information on Social Media’, Penn Today , May 19 2020, For a full discussion, see https:// penntoday.upenn.edu/news/dangers-sharing-personal-information- social-media (accessed 5 September 2022). The advancement of technology, especially the social media, has revealed that it is very easy for many developed countries or organizations to know any information about netizens living any country. So, the idea of being engaged has been replaced by the idea of being encaged and the idea of sharing something has been shifted to the idea of informing and thus being controlled. Another proof of this is a recent study by Amandip Dhir, Torbjorn Torsheim, Stale Pallesen, and Cecilie S. Andreassen in 2017 has shown how privacy © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue VI Version I 75 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 C O ‘Selfie’! O Narcissus: The Mythologico-Cultural Imposition of Late-Capitalistic Tools in the Present Digital World