Tag: selfies

Dental school students and a professor of orthodontics are in hot water after officials discovered that the group took a selfie with two severed human heads.

Two psychologists have claimed that selfie addiction could be a sign of a mental condition called “selfitis.”

New Russian military regulations are expected to ban soldiers from taking selfies and uploading them to social media, the Moscow Times reported.

Actress Priyanka Chopra was ripped on social media this week over pictures she posted to social media showing her posing at a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany.

A Georgia woman accused of robbing, beating, and burning a grandmother who later died has been caught taking selfies and posting them to social media while behind bars.

The California legislature has passed a bill that will allow voters to take “ballot selfies” in the voting booth, once Governor Jerry Brown signs it into law.

There is a repeated theme in the arguments made by “NeverTrump,” those Republicans who have sworn not to vote for the party’s nominee, Donald Trump. That theme is: “I, me, mine.”

A pop star known for her pink hair and controversial outfit choices is the biggest name on a long list of independent legislative candidates in Vietnam, hoping through sheer numbers to force the Communist Party to accept dissidence in the National Assembly.

Snapchat has altered its terms and conditions, giving itself full ownership over images shared via its app.

Two young Ohioans, fancying themselves Bonnie and Clyde-types, allegedly robbed a bank, then went home and took selfies to post on Facebook, leading police to arrest them days later.

A Wisconsin pediatrician set off a slight panic over the Internet when she blamed selfies for a nationwide lice infestation among teens and adolescents in 25 states. Since then, the transference of the parasitic louse has been dubbed “social media lice.”

Belgian police announced an investigation after photographs surfaced of two men celebrating in the autopsy room of two dead terrorists.

“Maybe this will be the end of all selfies,” White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer warned on CBS’s Face the Nation after the event. “Someone who uses the President’s likeness to promote a product … that’s a problem with the White House.”

A statue of an Ottoman prince taking a selfie in the Turkish city of Amasya has become both a major tourist attraction and the victim of multiple vandalizations, as residents and tourists alike differ on whether the artwork is a fun homage to the city’s history or a vulgar commercialization of Turkish culture.

Social media’s undeniable influence on society and culture has snapped its way into the educational system. Schools like the University of Southern California are reportedly offering a “#SelfieClass” to show the ways in which society views gender, race, class and sexuality

The government of Thailand has issued a warning that the Ministry of Culture would begin prosecuting women who post “underboob selfies” on the Internet: photos exposing the bottom half of their breasts. The photos, usually taken so that the woman cannot be identified, have become a growing trend internationally.

The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a fatal plane crash near Denver last year was most likely caused by a pilot who was distracted by taking selfie photos in the cockpit.

An Ohio State University (OSU) professor, concerned about the self-absorption exhibited by those who take selfies, has a new target: the selfie stick, a metal rod attached to smartphones that enables picture-takers to photograph themselves from farther away, thus including more people.

When it comes to online bragging, California takes the cake. A new study conducted by social media platform HeyLets found that people in the Golden State are the most boastful users of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.