Identity and Selfies

     After reading the articles, I did not imagine how much people put of themselves into their selfies, whether they realize it or not. Our identities are entrenched within our portraits. Pictures have become or have always been a visual representation of ourselves, as they say, "a picture tells a thousands words." Many times we do not need to speak a word but just take a picture and the look of the picture expresses all the emotion we are feeling. To think that people give themselves in selfies all the time and I just thought it was a sense of egotism and arrogance. People acting as if their own image and lives are so important that they need to be recorded in a picture every few hours of everyday.

     Especially, since I work in a high school with high school students everyday. I see them taking selfies everyday in class when their supposed to be paying attention to me. They would rather take a picture than to listen to what I have to say, damn kids! But that's not the point, now I'm wondering if every time they take a picture. They are actually searching for their elusive self-identity. Because I know in high school, kids are still trying to find themselves and represent themselves as who they believe themselves to be. But could it be that with every picture they take of themselves that they are trying to find one that reflects their personality at that point in time? And is that the reason they continually take selfies because in fact, not one picture that they have taken has fully or can fully encompass who they are or want to be?

     And that, I believe is hard if not nearly impossible for them because they are still trying to find themselves. And if they don't know themselves well enough yet. How can they accurately take a picture or Selfie that represents the best of them or their identity? With this information, I can begin to understand little by little this aspect of self-identity in selfies.