Scroll through your phone gallery or social media wall, check the total number of selfie and calculate the score of narcissism. While those self- taken pictures are definitely going to make you revisit your memories as much as they are going to fixate you with the likes, shares and forwards. Smartphones have made it simpler to shoot and send images at any time, and social media has encouraged the practise of sharing photos, which has naturally led to the emergence of the selfie culture. The "selfie phenomenon" has generated a great deal of controversy. Let’s take a look at the records. The Indian Record In the past two years, the country has had a considerably greater number of selfie-related fatalities than any other nation in the globe. This is what researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Indraprastha Institute of Information in Delhi discovered in 2016.

Author-Gopi Shah