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    Deadly selfie

    The selfie is five times more deadly than shark attacks

    In six years, at least 259 people have died taking a selfie in the world, while 50 people have been killed by sharks.

    The selfie , which has swept the planet in a decade, kills five times more people than shark attacks. And more and more every year, with the perches and the increasing sophistication of smartphones. From October 2011 to November 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies around the world, according to the Indian publication Journal of Family Medecine and Primary Care, against just 50 killed by sharks.

    If women take the most selfies, three quarters of these photographic dramas affect men, young, with risky behaviors: drowning, transport accidents, falls, fire or weapons. India, with its 800 million mobile phones, holds the world record with more than half of the deaths (159), ahead of Russia, the United States and Pakistan. A result apparently attributable to the national taste for the group selfie and the youth of the population.

    Group of young people snatched by a train or drowned when their boat capsized at the moment of the selfie, India has just established "no selfies zones" - 16 in the city of Bombay alone. In Russia, 16 fatalities were recorded over the same period. In search of the "perfect" selfie, Russians have died falling from bridges or ultramodern towers, triggering a gun or even handling an anti-personnel mine. In 2015, the Russian police published a guide to "safe selfies" warning: "a cool selfie can cost you your life".

    But it is in the United States (14 deaths over the period), that most of the deadly selfies by firearms were recorded. Grand Canyon National Park has seen tourists fall and kill themselves for a selfie. In the mountains of Croatia, rescuers on Twitter urged tourists to "stop taking stupid and dangerous selfies" after a 75-meter drop near the Plitvice Lakes, to which a Canadian miraculously survived.

    In January, the death of Taiwanese "hiker in bikini" Gigi Wu, shocked the crowd of its "followers". She crashed at the bottom of a ravine, having climbed more than 100 peaks to make two-piece selfies.

    "The question of dignity"

    Without being deadly, the selfie can be morbid: see the hashtag #funeral and its declensions on Instagram. A Brazilian had outraged Internet users in 2014 after taking a selfie at the funeral of Eduardo Campos, smiling near the coffin of the presidential candidate died tragically. "Influencer" Sueli Toledo, too, made a bad buzz by posting in 2017 on Instagram a selfie captioned: "My look of the day for the funeral of a super friend." The selfie can pose the question of dignity.

    In Poland, the Auschwitz Museum, which welcomes 2.1 million tourists each year, authorizes selfies and photos in the name of the transmission of memory. But the memorial does not hesitate to contact visitors who publish "inappropriate" photos on social networks. It is not uncommon to see selfies taken by witnesses of road accidents, from Brazil, to Vietnam via Germany. More and more, the selfie rhymes with nuisance. Even with hell, as for the inhabitants of the very flashy rue Crémieux in Paris, who can not stem the parade of tourists or "influencers" under their windows, have opened the account Instagram clubcremieux where they publish, with vengeful comments, the most ridiculous selfies. And there is matter.

    In Hong Kong, despite the signs of residents forbidding photos at the colorful complex of Quarry Bay, selfie lovers form queues. In Brazil, young people in Rio were shocked on Facebook in 2017, posting selfies from them, laughing, in the midst of terrorized passengers who had thrown themselves on the ground in a bus caught in a firefight. Faced with the madness of the selfie, Vienna launched a digital detox campaign . Thus a reproduction of Gustav Klimt's painting "The kiss" is covered with a giant red hashtag, not far from the original, at the Belvedere Palace, to signify: "look at the painting instead of taking a picture with you" .

    Le selfie est cinq fois plus mortel que les attaques de requins

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    In six years, at least 259 people have died taking a selfie in the world, while 50 people have been killed by sharks.
    That's nothing. Every year, millions of people around the world die in their bed.

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    ^There is no meaning in that, whereas there is meaning in how self-centred people die as a result of their mental aberration.

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