CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION

A. Background of Study

The selfie has arguably become the greatest photographic trend of our time. Taking selfie is like documenting your life for a second that can never be repeated again. Selfie is the visual representation on how people feel that words cannot convey. Considered as an excellent Word of the Year. That -ie ending echoes hundreds of predecessors, and gives it a familiarity, succinctness, and colloquial appeal that’s somehow lacking in such coinages as selbstportrait and autoportr.

According to the article "Scholarly reflections on the ‘selfie’" by Mark R. Leary, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University , By posting selfies, people can keep themselves in other people’s minds. In addition, like all photographs that are posted on line, selfies are used to convey a particular impression of oneself. Through the clothes one wears, one’s expression, staging of the physical setting, and the style of the photo, people can convey a particular public image of themselves, presumably one that they think will garner social rewards.

“From a social psychological standpoint, the selfie phenomenon seems to stem from basic human motives. The first is to attract attention from other people. Because people’s positive social outcomes in life require that others know them, people are motivated to get and maintain social attention.'' Mark Leary said.

Selfie indeed impact the social life of human. The reaction one will come up and the popularity it may hit as it covers a huge popularity.  Sharing of self-portraits also pre-dates the internet. The 1860s saw huge popularity for the sharing of cartes de visite - little photocards. Even the photo booth dates back as far as 1880, and attracted groups of friends much as it does today. Technological advances mean that where we once had to remain very still due to long exposure times - creating a more formal image - now we can be captured quickly and informally.

According to the article "Self-portraits and social media: The rise of the 'selfie'" by Pamela Rutledge. People enjoy opportunities to experiment with different identities to portray. Probably joyful, sad, unusual, bitter and whatsoever- and the selfie allows just that.

 "We all want to be able to 'try' on a new image and imagine how we would feel as that part of ourselves," Dr. Pamela Rutledge explains.

One theory is that the "selfie" tells other people how we want to be seen. How we define ourselves and present for others to see. We rely on others' perceptions, judgments and appraisals to develop our social self.

According to recent findings from the "Pew Research Centre," teenagers in America are sharing more information than ever about themselves on social media. Of those studied, 91% post photos of themselves online - up from 79% in 2006.

Selfies are most commonly criticised not for their potential risks, but for their associations with vanity and narcissism. Isn't it a bit, well, cringeworthy to take the time to photograph ourselves, and assume our friends (not to mention potential strangers) will want to see the results? This really deals with the issue of taking selfie. And yet, many people indulge. For selfie create things that soon develop or destroy the self-esteem of a person at whatever you post reflect who you are. And negative impacts from others will not be a damage to them but a hard hit to you.

      B. Statement of the Problem

This study aims to answer the question:

1.   What are the advantages and disadvantages of Selfie in humanity?

C. Significance of the Study

Future Researchers. This can be a good reference for future researcher looking for more summarize and compiles research study about selfies. This not just cover the benefits but also the negative effects, including the article based  explanations.

Students of Social Psychology. Students in college who are studying Social Psychology will find this research paper very interesting yet helpful for it help them to have a summarize yet very informative view of Selfie which is a very good topic for their course. It will give them a further understanding on these ideas plus a new way of collaborating things such as these. This will boost up there knowledge 

and deepen the ideas on the possibilities of new behaviors. 

Teachers and Professors of Psychology. This will be a helpful guide for teachers and can be use as source of new lesson which is about selfie and covers other interesting topics for their teaching aid or guide.

Psychologists. This research paper would be very interesting for the professionals or psychologist in profession. Selfie is very vast topic that waas not concern on a single topic but also pertains to some other beneficial psychology issues of humanity.

D.Scope and Delimitation

This research study is focused on the advantages and disadvantages of Selfie not just in society but also in humanity. Due to the intense wiespread of this, the researcher consider different scope such as vanity, narcissism, selfie in art and even in science and culture. The social issues about selfie are interpreted as one and interconnected with each other to produce a variant study of Selfie.

E. Materials and Methods

In this research, the materials used to gather the information the researcher have gathered was mostly from articles found online.

The reasearcher analysed all the informative and useful articles and data that was gathered. This was all compiled and presented through the ideas collectedand summarize. The method of connecting the ideas about vanity, selfie,narcissism and other major things are produced in one common denominator of Selfie. This were more like concerning about social issues in humanity.

The researcher aims collide all the ideas and state a very realiable conclusion about selfie advantages and disadvantages in accordance with the articles from various sites.

F. Definition of Terms:

Selfie: A photograph of that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.

Narcissism: Excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance.

Vanity: Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements or the quality of being worthless or futile.

Obsession: An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind.

Science: the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the 

structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Culture:  refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, 

attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and group striving. It is the system of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual.