Pop quiz: Who’s taken a selfie?
A better question: who hasn’t taken a selfie? A recent estimate says we take 93 million selfies worldwide every day.
Narcissism? Perhaps. But the real danger seems to lie in selfie-induced injuries, and even death. People (mostly young adults) have fallen off bridges and cliffs, slipped down stairs, been bitten by rattlesnakes, mauled by bears, been hit by trains, shot themselves, and even been blown up by hand grenades. (We’re not sure how that happened, either.)
Still, what we rarely hear about is that selfies—at least, certain types of selfies—may improve or even save lives.
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