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Advice to Graduates: No Selfies

posted by n1 on Saturday May 03 2014, @07:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the official-graduation-photos-only-$199 dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 03 2014, @09:09AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 03 2014, @09:09AM (#39194) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday May 03 2014, @10:39AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday May 03 2014, @10:39AM (#39201) Journal

    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

      by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 03 2014, @10:45AM (#39203) Journal

      Don't worry. Just a sarcasm on the current insanity ;)

      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday May 03 2014, @10:49AM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday May 03 2014, @10:49AM (#39206) Journal

        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

          by Ryuugami (2925) on Saturday May 03 2014, @11:08AM (#39207)

          "Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." -- Philip K. Dick

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