Have we lost respect and become self involved by the culture of ‘selfies’?
Holocaust + Selfie Culture = 'Yolocaust'
Selfies and yoga poses are not the way to honor the memory of 6 million dead Jews.
Posted by AJ+ on Tuesday, 7 March 2017
This Facebook post caught my attention as it highlights the extent to which individuals have let their addiction to recording their every moment on smartphones. We have become a culture that explores, experience and captures life through a lens to record the memory rather than be present in that particular moment of time and space. All in the attempt to create a post or an image via social media that may attract a high volume of ‘likes’ and validation from followers. The selfie phenomenon has made us ignorant to our surroundings. Here the post describes why selfies and yoga poses are not the way to honor the memory of 6 million dead Jews. #mscedc
One thought on “Have we lost respect and become self involved by the culture of ‘selfies’?”
Ah yes – I’ve seen this! What does this say about ‘selfie’ culture? Perhaps a mixture of etiquette and netiquette – bad behaviour/poor choices …
https://yolocaust.de/
Anne