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article on topic
"Fond of my selfie"

Answer 1

The mobile phone came to India in 1995 and I met it immediately. My son’s paediatrician was a pioneer; he carried a black Motorola some nine inches long with a stubby antenna. He was a kindly man, good at dealing with anxious parents at inconvenient hours, but he didn’t like us calling his mobile phone. “Eight rupees a minute—incoming!” he said to us sternly, after we had called him about strep throat. Doctors were India’s cell­phone vanguard; for them it was a morphed-up pager. That’s how Dr Lall wanted us to use it; he was an early advocate of the ‘missed’ call.

For years I made the mistake of thinking of it as a like-for-like replacement for the landline phone. Some time in the late 1990s, I watched in sneering fascination as a family in my neighbourhood, father, mother and daughter, walked the park in the mornings, holding their mobile phones. My superciliousness was driven by two questions: a) why couldn’t they walk in the park for half an hour without a phone and b) why did each member of this family need a phone? Wasn’t one enough?

The second question was genuinely felt because I understood this new gadget merely as a more capable phone, one that could go where no landline had been before. So just as you shared an indoor phone at home with your family, why couldn’t you share a mobile phone for those outdoor excursions when being in telephonic contact was urgent? I borrowed a friend’s phone while keeping nightly vigil outside intensive care through my mother’s last illness. I called in medicines, issued status alerts and organised vigil shifts without once having to worry about the state of the one public phone in the hospital. I marvelled at that primitive Nokia’s usefulness without being tempted to buy one. Life wasn’t a continuous hospital emergency and when the need arose, I could, as I had this time, always borrow one.

Answer 2

This article was very interesting as it discussed the history of selfies and how it is having such a big impact on future generations. While typing this, I noticed that the word "selfie" has been underlined in red meaning that the website must believe that I have spelled the word wrong, and it is right because this word is a slang word. However, the term has gained so much popularity and is also known all over so the Oxford dictionary as well as some others have started to include it in their dictionaries. Therefore it won't be long before the red line will disappear from under selfie. 
This article also discussed the positive effects of selfie's. Most people believe that they encourage vanity and a need to be beautiful to be accepted by society, but in reality, selfie's produce a totally different effect. Instead, people are growing increasingly confidant and content with the way they look since selfie's are informal while people are more concerned with looks when taking a formal picture. Also, selfie's are helping people interact face to face more rather than hiding behind a screen. While texting was once extremely popular, applications such as snapchat and vine are taking its place. Instead of texting one another "hi" people are now sending pictures which portray their emotions instead. 
It was really interesting to read about the effects selfies are having on society and I was intrigued by the benefits selfies are actually having on society. While I previously shunned the idea of selfies because I also thought it was vain and silly, I am know more open to it after reading this article.

My Selfie, Myself" is an engaging article about the modern selfie. Selfies are pictures, usually taken with a phone, of the person holding the camera. Selfies have made a huge impact on almost all forms of social media. There is much controversy on whether or not selfies are benefitting or hurting today's society. I like how this article talks about the positive aspects of selfies, and how and why they are helping social media. One part talked about how the makers of the app Vine used to not have a front facing camera, because they wanted the users of the app to not post things of themselves. When they finally released the front facing camera, they never regretted it. By showing more faces, it made it easier for the people of the social media to connect with their viewers. Personally, I do not believe that there is any negative aspects to taking selfies and posting them online. I feel as if they are great ways to express yourself


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