No Selfies Day– March 16, 2022

We celebrate No Selfies Day every year on March 16. While the act of taking a selfie may predate social media, mobile phones, and the word itself, selfies have always been popular. Throughout the years, selfies have actually become easier to take, and today, you can click a selfie on almost every device. Selfie sticks and multi-functional electronic camera phones make it all too hassle-free to take selfies and group selfies or ‘groupies.’ Nevertheless, on No Selfies Day, we are not enabled to take any groupies or selfies. We know … torture. But we’re all in this together!

HISTORY OF NO SELFIES DAY
The history, origin, and creator of No Selfies Day are unidentified. The day targets those obsessed with taking selfies (us all) and the harmful effects. It’s a mild pointer not to take a photo of yourself today.

Selfie addiction has actually been linked with psychologically damaging habits. Research has actually exposed that a female, typically, spends about 104 minutes weekly attempting to catch perfect selfies! Selfies have become a cultural phenomenon due to the fact that they expose the standard human desire to feel noticed, valued, and acknowledged. Due to busy social networks development, individuals take selfies and upload them for likes and comments to keep up with the trends. Selfies are even improved with lights, filters, effects, and more. As a result, individuals tend to become baffled in between someone’s online existence and their reality, resulting in an increase in body dysmorphia cases.

Research studies also show that we can be negatively impacted when somebody comments something hurtful, dislikes our image, or even when the image does not get as numerous likes or remarks as one would expect. No Selfies Day offers both the possibility and serves as a pointer to forget selfies for at least a day and photo others instead. Or perhaps simply take mind images to store for several years to come.

NO SELFIES DAY TIMELINE
1839
The First Selfie
Robert Cornelius takes the very first selfie in the U.S.

1970s
Immediate Cameras
Instantaneous cameras, such as Polaroid, become economical.

2003
Front Cameras in Cell Phones
The Sony Ericsson Z1010 mobile phone introduces a front-facing cam.

2013
Word of the Year
‘ Selfie’ is the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year.

NO SELFIES DAY FAQS
The number of selfies are taken in a day?
Google reported in 2019 that their Android gadgets take about 93 million selfies every single day!

Do ladies or men post more selfies?
According to various research studies, women post more selfies, but not by such a huge margin as you might think. In 2021, a research study revealed that 64% of females had actually taken selfies and 60% of men.

Is it bad to publish selfies?
Numerous selfies highlighting your physical look or great deals of selfie collages might say you’re a bit higher on some narcissistic traits. Selfie posters might also be perceived as lonelier, less independent, and less likable than people who have pals to take their photos for them.

HOW TO CELEBRATE NO SELFIES DAY
Take no selfies
That’s a no-brainer on No Selfies Day. Set yourself free from the judgment of the electronic camera’s eye and the approval of your peers through likes and comments on social networks. Spend the day by living your life and being in the moment.

Go on a picture walk
Celebrate No Selfies Day by going on a picture walk. You can take pictures of animals, buildings, other people, and anything that captures your eye.

Buy photography software application
If you enjoy photography, professionally or otherwise, No Selfies Day is a good day to purchase photography software and devices. You can likewise sign up with a photography club to satisfy similar people.

5 FACTS ABOUT SELFIES THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
The Eiffel Tower is a well-known backdrop
The Eiffel Tower was tagged in over 10,000 selfies in 2015.

Millennials enjoy selfies
The typical millennial will take about 25,700 selfies in their life time.

Age is simply a number
Most selfie-takers are about 23-years-old.

The world’s largest groupie
It was clicked at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries with 2,000 people in the picture.

The hashtag debuts on Instagram
In 2011, Jennifer Lee was the first to caption her image with #selfie on Instagram.

WHY WE LOVE NO SELFIES DAY
Time to take a break
A typical teenage girl spends as much as one hour 24 minutes weekly trying to get the perfect selfie. No Selfies Day is a suggestion to take a break from this exercise.

It motivates self-love
Selfies can develop a negative self-image and make us based on validation from others. Taking a break from clicking selfies on No Selfies Day motivates self-love.

A chance to revisit history
No Selfies Day might be an ironic vacation, however it’s a great chance to review history and see how this kind of photography has actually developed over the centuries. You might be amazed at what you find!