So if you find yourself snapping away and capturing life through the lens of your camera, add a new perspective.
AS Indians in general seem to be bad at selfie safety.
Another ‘SELFIE’ moment ended in a tragedy for a 16-year-old student was ran over a speeding train while trying to click a picture of him beside the train.
Dinesh Kumar, a Class XI student from chennai, was walking along the railway track with a friend at suburban Vandalur on Sunday ie 31st Jan evening when the incident happened, police said .
he was trying to click a picture of himself with the speeding suburban train behind him when it ran over him, killing the teenager on the spot.
The victim’s body was sent for post-mortem and further probe was on.
Doctors have been warning that taking too many selfies could result in “Selfitis,” which is described as a mental disorder, in the eyes of the American Psychiatric Association and countless others, who are igniting a global movement to recognize that an addiction to selfies can be indicative of a mental disorder.
It never seems concerning until you look through a compiled, endless list of someone’s Instagram selfies – and even then, it could be more funny than worrisome,
The APA has defined it as: “the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy”, and has categorized it into three levels: borderline, acute, and chronic.
The list of serious injuries and deaths that occurred during, or in immediate connection with, the taking of a selfie has increased over the past few months , The Telegraph wrote that, in 2015, more people were killed taking selfies than by shark attacks, we hear so many incidents of Indians taking selfies died while posing in front of an oncoming train, in a boat that tipped over at a picnic, on a cliff that gave way and crumbled into a 60-foot ravine and on the slippery edge of a scenic river canal.
so do be careful when you try taking SELFIE the next time .
