Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of all?

In times when clicking ‘selfies’ has become a rage, how many of us ask this question? Clearly, the answer is most of us. Today, there are not only women, but men too who ask this question in some way or other. It has been observed that People today are very conscious about their image in public, specially the youth. How we look, how we sound, how we present ourselves matter much more than how good we actually are. Outer beauty is given much more importance than inner beauty and the increasing number of selfies uploaded on social networking sites is proof of this.

Let’s take a look at some statistics related to selfies. According to “Selfie Info graphic”, which provides facts and figures about selfies, approximately 1 million+ selfies are uploaded every day. More interesting fact reveals, among these, 14% are digitally enhanced and 36% of them admitted altering their selfies. 13% of females retouch their selfie while a whopping 34% of males admit retouching their selfie. Interesting, isn’t it? Well the statistics clearly show that selfie is the hottest trend of the year. So what makes selfie so popular?