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ABC News reports:
Toss your cap. Turn your tassel. Just don't snap that selfie.
Graduates at the University of South Florida and Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., have been asked to refrain from taking self-portraits with their cell phones as they collect their diplomas.
Administrators at both USF and Bryant said their intentions were far less dramatic than making a statement about a generation often accused of oversharing, that they were simply trying to keep already long ceremonies from dragging on even longer.
It does raise the questions, should other institutions adopt a ban on selfies in certain situations, provided they do so legally? And, would it be beneficial to explicitly state the dangers of over-sharing as rationale for the selfie ban? I think it would.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday May 03 2014, @08:07AM
You know, a lot of students who attend graduation ceremonies are not actually graduating, since they forgot to actually pass their courses. This is why the Diploma cases are empty. So the last thing we want is actual evidence, photographically, that they did actually graduate.
Either that, or it is to protect the monopoly of the **&*(^*% Official Photographer who will send you proofs that you can buy for only a million times what your selfie costs. My god, after that whole thing with the textbook publishers screwing students over with monopoly prices for pieces of crap, to hit them at the end with a ban on your own photographs!! It is like those museums that prohibit photography, but have postcard available in the lobby!! Except, it is a photograph of you! You no longer own you! Your school has sold your image, as you are graduating, to a mercenary with a camera! Oh, the pain! Oh the Horror!! Oh the Humanity! And Oh the Intellectual Property violations! Ouch! (I am tired now. )
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 03 2014, @09:09AM
The photographer mercenary which works for the NaZi-A front takes your picture and uploads to the facebook such that suckerberg can sell your biometric data and the photographer company can rape your wallet for the job. Next everybody laugh at your ugly face or whatever reason they can come up with. But if you do anything about it, you will be slapped with jail time. Then the university put up a alumina photo catalogued with said photos and careless links via face identification and name matching to all photographs other people took of you in less than flattering situations.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday May 03 2014, @10:39AM
Um. that is what I was saying, but evidently I have not been as traumatized as you. Sorry it didn't work out. Maybe a nice picture of some flowers instead.
(Slowly. Slowly.. Stepping.... Away ......)
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 03 2014, @10:45AM
Don't worry. Just a sarcasm on the current insanity ;)
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday May 03 2014, @10:49AM
Whew! For a minute there, I thought that, maybe, you might have actually graduated! Thanks for the reassurance! (And, nice knowing two of us here are not insane! Strength in numbers! )
(Score: 3, Funny) by Ryuugami on Saturday May 03 2014, @11:08AM
"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." -- Philip K. Dick
If a shit storm's on the horizon, it's good to know far enough ahead you can at least bring along an umbrella. - D.Weber
(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Saturday May 03 2014, @11:36AM
> Either that, or it is to protect the monopoly of the **&*(^*% Official Photographer who will
> send you proofs that you can buy for only a million times what your selfie costs.
That's what I was thinking. Graduation ceremonies are for the kids and their families, nobody else gives a damn. I skipped all of mine because I preferred to sleep in late. But if it is important enough to the graduates to show up, them they deserve to document it in the common fashion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 03 2014, @01:32PM
Yeah, probably a money-making conspiracy. Certainly nothing to do with extending the graduation ceremony by 5 seconds times 1000 graduates equals an hour and a half. Nor probably anything to do with the right of people other than you to record a decorous and formal ceremony.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Saturday May 03 2014, @05:12PM
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