write a report on "Increase on death rate due to selfie madness" for class 10th
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You can hear someone off-camera shouting a warning “Ey, ey!” but that is brushed off confidently by the young man standing next to the railway tracks, who says “One moment,” and smiles into the camera. The driver of the train hurtling towards him in the video is also tooting frantically but he ignores that, too. The next moment the camera goes topsy turvy as the train evidently rams into him. T Shiva lands himself in the hospital with minor injuries. Shot in late January, the video clip went viral.
The very next day, Sujith, a college student, was killed by a goods train as he took selfies on a railway track near Coimbatore.
When contacted on the phone, T Shiva does not want to talk about what happened and neither does his brother Satheesh, who suggests there is no point discussing what is already done and dusted. But by no stretch of imagination are these incidents an exception. India, after all, has the notorious distinction of being the country with the highest number of selfie deaths, as the 2016 report “Me, Myself and My Killfie” by Carnegie Mellon University and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT Delhi) pointed out. According to the project’s latest data, India accounts for a startling 128 out of a total 213 selfie deaths recorded from 2014 to the present.
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Selfies resulting in death and serious accidents have been a global phenomenon, as has the tendency to post risky selfies with hashtags such as #dangerousselfie and #ultimateselfie. Many young Russians have reaped celebrity status out of their pictures of vertigo-inducing stunts, such as Kirril Vselensky, a 24-year-old who has photos of climbing nearly every high-rise in Moscow (he’s called a “roofer”). Or Angela Nikolau, a 24-yearold daughter of a trapeze artist, who is famous for her pictures on narrow ledges of skyscrapers or on the world’s tallest crane. But while they may train hard before they try these feats, those emulating their stunts may well come to grief. “We have been analysing Instagram posts with dangerous selfies and see that the ones resulting in death are often not the Russians, who are well-trained and have equipment,” says Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, associate professor at IIITDelhi and one of the authors of “Me, Myself and My Killfie”.
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2013 saw the formal inclusion of the "selfie," the act of taking a photo of oneself to share on social media. Simply strike a stance, then use your phone's camera to take a picture of yourself, is the concept. But unfortunately, it is not as simple as it seems.
Recently, researchers discovered that narcissistic characteristics are common among those who shoot selfies to post on social media. The report says these people use selfies as a form of self-identification and validation. They might take selfies in riskier situations because they want more attention. These risky circumstances have the potential to cause harm and perhaps death. The most common cause of selfie death was found to be falling from high places. in India, Selfies killed 68 people in 2016 and 68 people in 2017. India (100), the United States (39), and Russia (33), which are at the top of a list of more than 50 countries, was found to have the highest reported fatality rates. Spain is tied for sixth place with Australia with 15 fatalities.
Growing efforts are being made to stop these tragedies. According to the report, 16 locations in Mumbai, India have been designated as "No Selfie Zones." To educate people about unsafe selfies, the Russian government has also launched a "Safe Selfies" campaign.
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