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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, Interesting) by Oligonicella on Saturday May 03 2014, @02:38PM
But in the right circumstance. There were over seven hundred other graduates along with me. Multiply that by five seconds to snap that poorly executed vanity shot and that's about an additional hour. I didn't even go to the graduation. Waste of time. You still get your diploma.
And evidence? Yeah, right. Like no one can Photoshop.