Selfie Culture Quotes

“Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?”
― Ken Poirot

“A selfie has more face and fewer feelings.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The purpose of a camera is to capture memories, not replace them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“Selfies have begun to replace memories – likes and comments have begun to replace lasting conversations – illusive friends and followers lists have begun to replace real reliable friendship. And this is nothing to be taken for granted.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“In an overwhelming attempt to capture memories, people have forgotten to make memories.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“I never approach my heroes in public and leave all my illusions about them intact.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Selfies are injurious to health.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“It's people running around looking for anything to generate volume: Oh, teenage girls are taking their clothes off? And that's getting a lot of hits? Then let's turn a blind eye to the consequences. Oh, your daughter's on Tinder? Well, she's just meeting friends. It's all about high-volume usage. I don't think it's necessarily a cynical, let's destroy women thing - it's how can I get my next quarter's bonus?
And I think to the extent that the digital social media society normalizes impulses- think it, post it," Roberts says, "we've also created a context for more and more provocative propositions, whatever they are: Look at my boobs. Do you want to hook up? It's moved the bar for what's normal and normalized extreme behavior; everything outrageous becomes normalized so rapidly. You realize how insane things are today when you think about the relative rate of change. When I was in high school, if I had gone around saying, Here's a picture of me, like me, I would have gotten punched. If a girl went around passing out naked pictures of herself, people would have thought she needed therapy. Now that's just Selfie Sunday."

(--- Paul Roberts quoted from the book)”
― Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

“If you strictly want something not to get on the internet, do not keep it on your phone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Live in the moment, not in the cloud.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Service Over Selfies Sonnet

Awake, Arise O Timelords,
Oh makers and breakers of destiny!
Give this world accountability,
And time will give you immortality.
I don't want your shallow folllows,
I do not want your fancy likes.
Reach out as friend to someone in need,
That'll be my life's greatest prize.
Social media stats are no sign of character,
Fan following is no measure of a being.
Service over selfies, that is the motto,
Helping over hogging, that is living.
Life begins with the end of self-obsession,
Life self-obsessed is nothing but excretion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Once in a while you go somewhere, or meet someone, and you take a few selfies as memento, that's life - but if you spend every moment of life taking selfies, then that's not called being social, that's called being sick - clinically sick.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Click Less, Live More (The Sonnet)

Moments are vessel for memories,
Don't waste them on snobbish hypes.
A memory cherished with a loved one,
Is worth more than a billion likes.
The less devices you have to charge,
The more charge you have for your mind.
The less you obsess over convenience,
The more you develop actual insight.
Purpose of camera is to capture memory,
Not to desecrate the moments seeking attention.
Purpose of a picture is to rejuvenate emotions,
Even a thousand pictures are useless without emotion.
Click less, live more - that is the motto of wellness.
Or else, click more, sick more - there is no treatment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Click less, live more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Watch out for selfie Preachers and Priests who are busy taking selfies, editing them and retouching them with Beauty Filter apps just confirming themselves instead of crucifying the fleshy nature with its passions and desires as per Galatians 5: 24.”
― Shaila Touchton

“Break your addiction of likes and share,
Outgrow the lure of all golden snare.
Focus on your walk, not on outside talk,
Sun's glow always makes the vermin glare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat