Today’s selfie obsession is as bad as we thought. According to a new study, a youngster clicks over 2,000 selfies a year!
Researchers from Intel and lineage labs interviewed 1,000 Americans over the age of 18 about their photo-taking habits, to find out exactly how much of an epidemic the plague of selfies has become.
Around 50 per cent of the people surveyed admitted they took a selfie every day. Among the rest, some of them took a selfie a week, or a selfie every other day. And those who counted themselves as regular users of their phone took at least six selfies a day, every day, Metro.Co.Uk reported, citing results of the study.
Apparently only 6 per cent of photographs on the average American’s phone are selfies, with more photos of friends and family, travel, and kids filling up their photo libraries. However, a closer look at a slightly younger demographic highlights society’s current obsession with selfies, ignoring for a moment all the parents and grandparents who are busy using their phones to document their children’s achievements.
On the average 18-24 year old’s phone, 16 per cent of photos are selfies, according to the study.