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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 16 2018, @06:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-explains-Kim-Kardashian dept.

Psychologists claim that taking three or more selfies a day could be a sign of mental illness.

In 2014, a spoof news article coined the term "selfitis," saying that the American Psychiatric Association was going to start recognising it as a real disorder.

Three years on, two researchers have looked at the term and have decided there could be some truth to it.

Psychologists Mark D. Griffiths and Janarthanan Balakrishnan have published a paper in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, in which they argue that selfitis is a real condition, and can be diagnosed as excessive selfie taking.

They also developed a "Selfitis Behaviour Scale" by surveying the selfie behaviour of 400 participants from India. The scale assesses the severity of the condition, of which there are three levels.

India was chosen for the study as the country has the most selfie-related deaths. Out of 127 selfie-related deaths that have been reported worldwide between March 2014 and September 2016, 76 occurred in India.


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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday January 17 2018, @03:22PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday January 17 2018, @03:22PM (#623611)

    No, the problem is the system. The system rewards people for doing pointless make-work and reinventing the wheel: companies which are rich incumbents make more money by pointlessly "improving" a product and selling a new version, instead of just calling it "done" and moving on to something more productive for their engineers to do. Doing something new is risky, whereas slapping some new lipstick on a pig and selling it as "new and improved" is low-risk and virtually guaranteed to make a profit. Also, there's just not that many new things that need to be done; most new ventures are going to fail anyway. We also don't need lousy products when there's better ones available (e.g. Chryslers), but the market rewards companies with crappy products if their marketing is good enough to make up for their products' crappiness, or they have enough idiot customers with irrational brand loyalty.

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