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People are taking so many selfies, they're getting "Selfie Wrist." One local doctor tells us how to recognize the signs and symptoms and has expert advice on what you can do. Selfies help you capture how you look and feel at a given moment. Tina Choi, 29, works in digital media promotion. For her clients, she says a successful selfie can raise their profile and income. Choi believes selfies are an effective way of sharing a sense of yourself. "Its really about telling a story. Where you're at. What you're doing. How active you are," Choi said.

Taking a selfie against a dangerous background or in a frightening position is thrilling and it shows a bravery and courage in getting that next-to-impossible photo, that is until the photographer slips and falls off a mountain or tumbles down a cliff or is killed by a wild animal. >> Read more trending news The number of people willing to risk their life to get that perfect shot is an “emerging problem,” according to a new study on how many people have died in selfie-related accidents over the past few years. Researchers discovered that 259 people worldwide have lost their...

A new study has found more than 250 people have died in pursuit of a perfect selfie. The study published by the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care journal (and republished by the National Library of Medicine in the US) looks into how many of us social media obsessed plebs are dying for the ‘gram. Led by Dr. Agam Bansal at the India Institute of Medical Sciences, the study analyzed news articles from October 2011 to November 2017 and found there have been 259 reported deaths—dubbed selficides in one part of the article—resulting from that never-ending thirst for Instagram...

The Montgomery Biscuits, the Double A affiliate of the Rays, will hold a “Millennial Night” on Saturday against the Mississippi Braves. The promotion will feature all the things that have become synonymous with life as a millennial: stagnant wages, a rising cost of living and crushing debt. Oh wait, sorry. They’re actually going to just be handing out participation trophies and serving avocados at the concession stands. **SNIP** The Biscuits aren’t even the only team pulling the same gimmick this year. The Lexington Legends’ Millennial Night was met with similar hostility in May, while the West Michigan Whitecaps are holding...

A British woman plunged to her death, along with her partner, while taking a selfie on a picturesque wall in Portugal, according to local authorities. Perth man Michael Kearns, 33, Louise Benson, 37, his British partner, fell 30 metres off a beach wall and were found by shocked locals early on Tuesday morning. Rui Pereira da Terra, the captain of the maritime authority in Cascais, said the two victims appeared to have lost their balance while taking a photograph overlooking Fishermen’s Beach. “Everything seems to indicate that the fall happened when they were probably trying to take a selfie,” he...

According to the researchers, individuals suffering from selfitis use selfies to try to boost their confidence or their mood, along with other motivations like conforming and social competition. The researchers say that taking selfies can be an addictive behavior that also points to more underlying mental health issues, like low self-confidence.

The recent Texas church shooting, the terrorist driving a truck through a crowd in New York City, and the Las Vegas massacre may seem shocking – but to anyone who has been paying attention, they should not. Our culture is undergoing a hostile takeover. American society used to be governed by Judeo-Christian do-unto-others morals. But we have drifted (been pushed, really) into a hedonistic YOLO (You Only Live Once) cultural morass. The upshot of this is a distinct lack of respect for human life in general, as well as a pervasive, insidious obsession with self. This is the “me” generation,...

Las Vegas madman Stephen Paddock set up a camera inside his hotel room to capture his deadly shooting rampage — and other surveillance in the hallway to alert him as cops closed in on him, according to reports. The shooter had at least one lens set up to tape himself as he unleashed hell on thousands of unsuspecting concertgoers several hundred yards below his ritzy casino suite, according to ABC News.

Video of a mother bear and her two cubs climbing down a tree in the middle of Aspen, Colorado went viral earlier this week, prompting police to issue a warning about trying to photograph the wild animals. When the bears came down from the tree on the Hyman Avenue mall, police said there was a "fairly large crowd of photo-takers and those that insisted on trying to get close enough to take selfies." Police said one woman walked up to the bears -- while carrying her child -- to get a selfie. Police said when the bear and her cubs...

A baby dolphin has died after sunbathers reportedly pulled it from the sea and posed for selfies with it on a packed tourist beach. The small female, still of breastfeeding age, lost its mother and became stranded in shallow waters off the coast of southern Spain.

Trudeau will continue his salvation show where at least he is able to do what he does best—pose for selfies. There is little doubt Justin Trudeau will go down in history as one of, if not the , worst prime minister in Canadian history. Despite the fact he is changing the face of Canada and working hard to economically destroy the country, it is a lot of fun to watch it. Recently the Little Potato got into some deep doo-doo, not only with his critics who think the country should retain the identity that made it Canada, but with the...

When the U.S., France, Germany, Britain and Italy talked with Ukraine about the meltdown in security there in 2014, the door was closed on Stephen Harper. That was news. The Conservatives had worked very hard to convince everyone — friend and foe alike — that Canada was Ukraine's best friend and the optics of being left on the sidelines at the NATO summit in Wales two years ago was unmistakable. It was, however, a footnote in the day's coverage, coming as it did on the same day that the former Conservative prime minister announced the first special forces deployment to...

Many fathers like to play pranks on their children, but not many will go far enough to mock them for all of the Internet to see. One father though, has no problem with mocking his teenage son and daughter online, much to the enjoyment of his fans. So my daughter has been posting sexy selfies of herself and instead of telling her to stop, well, I thought of something better,' the comedian and pod-caster wrote on Instagram.

FORT HUACHUCA — Even the stars were a little starstruck. It’s one thing to portray the military in Hollywood, as the cast of the blockbuster “Independence Day” did 20 years ago in a story that featured people of Earth banding together to topple alien invaders. Much of the cast has regrouped, with some new cast members, for “Independence Day: Resurgence,” the much anticipated sequel that hits theaters this Thursday. But to visit the troops on their turf and see what they do to defend the U.S. is quite another thing. Two stars from the new film, Jessie T. Usher and...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants you to stop taking selfies with baby seals. Noting that interactions with humans could endanger a seal pup's growth and even life, the agency advised humans to stay at least 150 feet away from them at all times.

A Muslim woman who was photographed taking selfies in front of a Belgian protest last week, earning her widespread praise for her cheerful stance against bigotry, reportedly praised Hitler and called for the killing of Jews in past Facebook posts. Zakia Belkhiri was photographed taking the selfies as she flashed a peace sign in front of Vlaams Belang protesters at the third annual Muslim Expo in Antwerp.The protests were part of the increasing resistance in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe to the flood of Muslim refugees pouring in from war-torn and poverty stricken countries in the Middle East and Africa.

But the biggest selfie of them all is the one that will take most folk by surprise--the tragic selfie that shows that unsuspecting citizens of both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to Cameron and Obama, are now certified ‘One World Citizens’ Though his alliance with the most significant ‘Brotherhood’ remains in the shadows, President Barack Obama’s top Selfie friend, Prime Minister David Cameron is the only world leader he calls his ‘Bro’. Now that he’s on his way out, Obama will make an 11th hour pit stop to shore his British Bro up on keeping Winston Churchill’s England within the...

Move over planking - the latest absurd craze to sweep the internet is 'extreme phone pinching'. The stunt involves holding a (presumably expensive) cellphone with just forefinger and thumb over somewhere you wouldn't like it to fall and revelling in the anxiety it causes. Social media is now awash with people dangling their phones over bridges, drains, city streets and toilets - all of which is then filmed and shared.

There have been a few tragic news stories about selfie deaths in the past year or so, but until now it hasn't been so clear exactly how rife the selfie death phenomenon really is. You may be more afraid of sharks than selfies, but actually statistically the latter is more deadly. There have been twelve recorded selfie deaths in 2015 so far, compared to eight people dying because of shark attacks. Most of the selfie-related deaths have been due to falling. The next most common is when people are trying to take a selfie, and they're hit by a...

Recently, though, a San Diego man thought it might be an idea to take a selfie with a rattlesnake. Some might think this has all the sense of taking a boa constrictor clubbing. However, as KGTV in San Diego reported, Todd Fassler picked a rattlesnake out of the brush and thought he might memorialize the event. The snake had other ideas and bit him.....His medical expenses could be described as expensive. KGTV’s Dan Haggerty tweeted Fassler’s bill — for $153,161.25. Of this, more than $83,000 was for “pharmacy.” His case reportedly depleted the antivenom supplies at two local hospitals.