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concerns influence selfie behaviour. Their study implicated that privacy concerns resulted in lower engagement in selfie-taking and selfie sharing frequency and in photo-editing behaviour across both male and female users. 26 A report published in the Daily Prothom Alo states that actress Chloë Grace Moretz questions the safety of people universally. She explains it when commenting on the recent nude celebrity photo-hacking scandal. ‘ The idea of freedom has become paradoxical because the word ‘freedom’ is also debated because of its consequences. So, the phrase Freedom of Expression can be viewed otherwise. The journalists and some political leaders in some ways enjoy this freedom. But the others who are not involved in any of these professions cannot enjoy it in the same way. In this age of globalization, no one can claim to be free. In the same way, no one can say that s/he is not free. But the problem is, and it is not without its logic, whenever a person is expressing his/her feelings in any social media, s/he is somewhat expressing his/her personality and opinion. This is what ‘the concerned authorities!’ or the hackers need. They need to know who you are and who you speak for. And by posting a Selfie people easily keep the authority informed where they are and what they are doing. People should not forget, and it is very crucial, that the information that is posted to be viewed by ‘friends’ on Facebook, actually gets viewed by lots of different categories of people: partners; friends; family; colleagues and acquaintances; and each group seems to take a different view of the information shared. I think we live in a (world) where you take the picture and you never know what’s going to happen. I think it’s a huge, huge, huge invasion of privacy and I think what you do on your own time you should be able to protect it,’ 27 26 Amandip Dhir, Torbjorn Torsheim, Stale Pallesen, and Cecilie S. Andreassen, ‘Do Online Privacy Concerns Predict Selfie Behaviour among Adolescents, Young Adults and Adults?’, Frontiers , 8 (815), 2017, For a full discussion, see https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10. 3389/fpsyg.2017.00815/full (accessed 5 September 2022). 27 Matiur Rahman, ‘No One’s Safe: Moretz on Nudity Scandal’, Prothom Alo , 11 September 2014, For a full discussion, see https://en. prothomalo.com/entertainment/No-one-s-safe-Moretz-on-nudity-scan dal (accessed 5 September 2022). was what Moretz commented on the issue. ‘And you should be able to not let people see it because people do things in...relationships with their significant other and they don’t need some 14-year-old boy in Minnesota to know what you look like in our most intimate setting,’ she added. The term ‘to share’, then, should better be called ‘to inform’. So, before sharing/informing anyone about anything, think repeatedly about what you are sharing/informing. VI. C onclusion Excitement about something new is inherent in human beings. Same goes for Selfie-a tool of techno- business. Only in Twitter, the word Selfie has been used 92 million times in the year 2014- which is 12 times more than the previous year (Olivia Solon, Mirror, 2014). 28 As the paper points out, most of the selfies are taken to inform people about the happy moments about the “pictoriotized” person. But now days, among the young people of some countries, it has spread like cancer. They are being prompt to post even their secretest moments with people. It does not matter where they are, that is, at shopping mall, at university, roadside, village, etc. Now, the intelligence of the developed countries can know the action of the people of these countries as these types of pictures are mostly shared in the social media like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Ingstram, Tumblr and so on. Bitter but true, it can also be misused by the criminals. However, it is clear that a person needs a smartphone to have a Selfie that results in the increase in the sale of smartphone- business. Moreover, most of the time, it is nothing but a show off and remembrance is the namesake. It is because the people who take Selfie normally have make up for looking white/ish-more business. One thing should be mentioned here that having occasional Selfies is not problematic and not harmful to a person or a culture, but having and posting Selfies without understanding the necessity of it is. Whether any cultural element poses any threat to any other existing culture should/could be a matter of careful observation and debate. Intercultural sharing and borrowing of cultural elements is a common issue- the positivity and negativity can be a topic to be discussed further. For the Globalization has indeed showered the developed countries with numerous technological advantages. Similarly, it has blessed the developing and underdeveloped countries with some of the advantages. But in reality, some of the negative elements from the cultures of developed countries have been welcomed in the developing and underdeveloped countries. And sometimes, where there is no question of good or bad, too much immersion in something can bear negative outcomes. 28 Olivia Solon, ‘2014 was “year os the Selfie” on Twitter- with Ellen’s Oscars photo triggering endless imitators’, Mirror , 10 December 2014, For a full discussion, see https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology- science/technology/2014-year-selfie-twitter---4783195 (accessed 2 September 2022). Volume XXII Issue VI Version I 76 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 © 2022 Global Journals C O ‘Selfie’! O Narcissus: The Mythologico-Cultural Imposition of Late-Capitalistic Tools in the Present Digital World time being, if it delivers advantages, only then it should be accepted. If not, it is better avoided. Being engaged is better than to be encaged.