Is a selfie really a selfie?

                                                    Whether your doing it on your own...

 

 dragged a boyfriend to join you 

 

or dragging all your besties

 nearly everyone with a smart phone has had least 1 selfie taken over the past 2 years.

According to the Daily Mail online:

• More than 17m selfies uploaded weekly, over 33% post at least once a week
• Brits aged 25-34 are most prolific selfie snappers, accounting for 34%
• One in six of over 55’s regularly take a selfie, compared to 10% of 18-24



How much data are we really giving out? There was a point in 2013 where we all became obsessed with taking pictures of ourselves and loading them onto the World Wide Web. While I have nothing against those who choose to share on the internet, I like to remind myself that what we share online, will forever remain online. One of the modules in the Squared Online course looks at gathering data and insight and using it wisely to make business decisions and strategies. I became really interested on how you can stop your data from being passed/used in ways I wasn't pleased about and came across this: 'Why you should care about and defend your privacy'  by Alan Henry (http://lifehacker.com/5904966/why-you-should-care-about-and-defend-your-privacy)

Here are some bits from this article I found interesting....
'Your data is worth real, tangible money to the companies that offer you free services (in Facebook's case,you're worth just shy of $5 per year) and the companies they do business with, even if they're not asking you to open your wallet.'

'If you're a Chrome user, there are tons of great add-ons and tools designed to help you uncover which sites transmit data to third parties without your knowledge, which third parties are talking about you, and which third parties are tracking your activity across sites.'

While you love the look of your drunken selfie right now, how impressed will you be in the future. According to the research, 91% of employers will use either LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook to screen candidates. Are you happy to share that selfie with everybody? In my opinion, some selfies should be for your self.