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The social effects of selfie portraits in social networking on smart phones and how this has become a global phenomenon in the last 4 years. In the article the Guardian titled "How selfies became a global phenomenon. In the this article it basically gets how the ideology of selfie phenomenon of selfies were around since photography has taken in 1839; the decade of the 1970 through 1980 with the invention of the compact camera. The real offshoot of selfie as a social phenomenon becomes a full swing of style when flickr gives way in 2004, later propelled by the invention of the Iphone 4 in 2010 because it allowed the ability for the camera to be inverted allowing people to quickly take photos of them selves and then post the photos on their social media sites such as Facebook, twitter and flickr. An ofcom communications report demonstrated that 90% percent of photos by teens increased from 79% in 2006. The selfie is basically where people can take a pictures of themselves to post; the issue asked if it produces an idea of being narcissistic or just taking a picture like any other. The American writer John Paul Titlow describes the selfie image as" high school popularity contest on digital steroids, in an article that he published in the website ReadWrite. The other issue in the article is about ownership of said photo taken by the individual and how in this new form of media, the question posed is once the picture is posted who has the ownership to said photo. The concept of control is considered to be disingenuous, The author feels that such photos become public domain under these circumstances. A recent study conducted the faculty of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Malaysia by Teh Phoey and William Kosiash explains the advantage that the technology of smart phones with the ability to turn a take photo have eliminated "the need for the consumer tom purchase expensive equipment to take pictures of themselves or locations they have visited." Cao conducted a study of 12000 selfies from 6 different countries that" demonstrated a correlated between gender and style of selfie," the result was that females tended to take more personal pictures as where men did not.
Further research on the dangerous area of where the phenomenon of selfies have been contributed on how people behave dangerously at times,taking selfie pictures that have involved serious injury and death as well. The selfie stick has produced several studies conducted through social science to give indication to what may be a prediction of certain personality traits. An article titled "What selfies Really Tell Us About Our Selves by Kate Murphy states that selfies may indicate certain traits such as narcissistic, psychopathic and Machiavellian tendencies however there is no conclusive method research performed that either negates or validates this article. In summer of 2015, theme parks, Disney World as well as Great Adventure and certain museums such as in Paris have banned selfie sticks due to possible property damage as well as safety risk because of injuries, this is reported by an article tilted "Another Major Theme Park" bans selfie sticks by Benjamin Synder. Recent study as published in the New York Times indicates that there are more deaths attributed to selfies than are shark attacks. In between 2014 to 2015, 12 people have died according to selfie pictures than a comparison to shark attacks which had a proportion of eight in comparison to 12.
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