#selfie

People get really riled up about selfies. Every other week, there is some new study going viral about how it promotes narcissism. In Sugar Land, TX, there might be an angry mob on its way to set fire to city hall because they recently installed a public art piece depicting a couple of friends taking a selfie. When people talk about people taking selfies, they snarl. 

I'd like to submit the following... 

This is how people used to do photos before digital photography became an option: 

Step 1) Person A decides they would like a photo of themselves in front of a particular backdrop

Step 2) Person A asks person B to take said photo

Step 3) Person B takes one or multiple photos

Step 4) Person A takes photos to develop

Step 5) Person A picks up photos from development

Step 6) Person A decides which photo shows them in the best light and shares with friends via photo album, stuffing away all the less desirable images in a shoe box

Then came digital photography... 

Step 1) Person A decides they would like a photo of themselves in front of a particular backdrop

Step 2) Person A asks person B to take said photo

Step 3) Person B takes one or multiple photos

Step 4) Person A deletes all the less desirable photos and keeps the best one and shares with friends 

Then came the flip screen option on our phones... 

Step 1) Person A decides they would like a photo of themselves in front of a particular backdrop

Step 2) Person A takes the damn photo 

Step 3) Person A shares the damn photo

All we're doing here is deleting the middle-men, folks. 

Seriously. 

And this, by the way, is where ALL technology is always going: We're finding ways to get from point A to point B faster.