I feel like such a grumpy old man for saying this…but IΒ stillΒ hate the whole selfie thing.
Not just like taking a photograph of you and your ice creamΒ (or whatever)Β and then sending it to your friend all:Β “haha – you don’t have a fucking ice cream, and I do!”Β – because of course, that is fantastic and I would never want to deprive anyone of such a perverse pleasure…
I’m not even talking about getting a quick snap of you and your friends together to mark some kind of occasion…actually you know what I have no problem with the selfie in itself at all…
But what I do have an issue with is the non-stop:Β KA-CHURR! … KA-CHURR! … KA-CHURR!Β
(That was supposed to be the camera sound on phones by the way; was a difficult one to recreate phonetically!)
You see I’m sitting here inΒ StarbucksΒ – probablyΒ (definitely)Β drank too much coffee, but this person is sitting next to me taking photos at every angle – and has been doing so for over half an hour now. This cafe has basically became her own personal photo-shoot: but why?Β JUST WHY?!Β
I’m trying to see if there is anything special going on…she hasn’t even got one of the festive drinks – you know, the ‘Returning Favorite: Toffee Nut Latte’, perhaps I could understand the Christmas-time excitement in that case – why you would need 3,000 photographs of the same thing is beyond me, but still…actually wait – she hasn’t even bought anything! I thought for a second she may be taking photos of the new red cup – that would make sense it has been somewhat of a fiasco as of late…butΒ NO!Β She has a carton of chocolate milkshake – which looks great and everything, but what…where have you pulled that from?!Β Who are you?!Β (and why aren’t you sharing? Man, it seriouslyΒ looks delicious).
The thing is, in Korea the selfie is king. There’s none of the shame surrounding it which I remember back home in England. I always thought that if you were by yourself taking photos of yourself in public non-stop, people would possibly (and quite rightly)Β – look at you as shallow, self-obsessed and well…entirely narcissistic. Here in SK that is still true, but because of the huge importance looks hold in this plastic surgery obsessed society, it is not considered to be a negative at all…so I am somewhat of a miserable island here, complaining all by myself to anyone who will listen (which is next to no one).
Ah phew, she’s left…rant over – and she didn’t even leave me any of the milkshake…what a so and so!
But what do you think about this: am I spot on or just a grumpy owld geezer who needs to get with the times? Lemme know…
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