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Originally Posted by Z
I think there's a line between happy with how you look and compliment fishing that isn't always so obvious; this guy hashtags all his photos with very specific hashtags to make sure he gets lots of likes and most of his selfies are basically the same photo over and over; couple that with it being on Instagram, meaning you see them regularly, and it becomes irritating. I think if you were happy with how you looked and wanted to be complimented, it's fine to post one every once in a while; but if you're doing it regularly and hashtagging it to the high heavens, it's attention seeking and annoying. Seeking attention in itself isn't annoying; it's just that constantly posting the same selfie over and over is annoying AND attention seeking for the same compliments and not being satisfied with them so doing it again...
I think people who post the most selfies are either deeply unhappy with how they look or are so happy with how they look that they're arrogant about it.
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..I think I'm just trying to think about why people do it..(and maybe over-thinking..)... just because I don't go on any social sites so I don't see many selfies, other than the celebrity ones that are posted here because I don't read much celebrity 'gossip' type stuff either...so I guess I don't see enough to find them annoying particularly...but I agree with your last bit in that I think it would either be complete confidence or total lack of it and maybe needing people to comment favourably..?...I can't actually get my head around the confident bit if I'm honest though because if someone had that much confidence in themselves then they would know how they looked physically so why post so many selfies/why need those compliments..?..unless obviously it was a celebrity who may just want to always be in the public's faces because they didn't have so much 'talent' ...with this guy that you know personally..would you say he was a confident person and completely at ease with himself or not...?....