{"id":12843,"date":"2013-08-24T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=12843"},"modified":"2013-11-22T07:22:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T12:22:59","slug":"the-1-vomit-inducing-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/the-1-vomit-inducing-selfie\/","title":{"rendered":"The #1 Vomit-Inducing “Selfie”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A “selfie” is a photo taken of one’s self, by one’s self. It’s the shortened word for “self-portrait”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Websters Dictionaries made this word the Word of the Year in 2013.<\/p>\n

Capturing the occasional “selfie” is no big deal…but \u00a0the #1 thing I hate about smart phones is epitomized in this screen shot of the short film entitled “I Forgot My Phone”:<\/p>\n

\"selfie\"<\/p>\n

It’s < The kissing or wedding proposal “Selfie”<\/strong>\u00a0> (ECK! skin crawling.)<\/p>\n

This reaction could also be because I’m not in my twenties. <\/em><\/p>\n

And I wonder…does this make me rustic and uncultured?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

See the whole short film here<\/a>\u00a0featuring\u00a0Charlene deGuzman. It’s a great 2 minute piece of critique that is so\u00a0accurate that\u00a0it hardly fits into the\u00a0category of satirical exaggeration, and maybe that was the point. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Really the only unrealistic part is the guy actually <\/em>making<\/span> a phone call. I’m not sure that happens too much at all…unless someone is driving, of course. 4-6 p.m. and 8-10 a.m. I think I see a few people making phone calls behind the wheel. Texting has overshadowed realtime voice-to-voice interaction, like email did in the 1990s.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The piece also emphasizes, by omission, the potential benefits<\/span> of “forgetting” your mobile phone in order to experience life more fully. See what you think of it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To be clear, I’m<\/span> guilty of overusing my phone. Time to update my Rule of Life that includes boundaries here.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Direct video link:\u00a0http:\/\/gawker.com\/short-film-about-smartphone-overuse-is-smart-poignant-1189811144<\/a><\/p>\n

So what do you think about the topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

And<\/span> Are you pro “selfie”, anti, or somewhere in between. I’m curious. Let me know!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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