Although "duck face" was a thing by 2007, evidently it hadn't made it into the vocabulary of that particular Urban Dictionary contributor in 2009: https://www.dictionary.com/e/memes/duck-lips/#:~:text=The%20....
http://panevin.ru/uploads/blog/2016/lenin_selfi_1024-2.jpg
(not only was Lenin a mushroom, but he invented the selfie before the west?)
So we should just use shame appropriately.
But that's all besides the point. Judging by myself only of course, I seriously doubt people shame others because of the duty to higher purpose (making people civilized).
That makes sense to me - do something dumb socially, the repercussions should be social as well.
Shaming has rather drastic negative consequences, especially in communities that shame intelligence, education, gender, race, neurotype, etc.
It's a non-violent tool to shape societal or group norms. If you are in a shitty group (e.g. one that shames education), that doesn't change the argument.
“You we’re texting and driving. You could have killed someone!”
And if you genuinely believe people posting selfies are narcissists, does this mean you should ignore and keep quiet?
The latter does not seem to clear cut; there are likely better, more positive ways to change behavior. Shame is more likely to make the person get better at hiding their irresponsible behavior, which is actually counterproductive for society.
I'm still not convinced that shame is ever a useful tool.
Wait, I'm struggling with this one. How does showing off a private location (I presume this means someone's home, a bedroom, etc?) indicate that they are less conscientious? The paper says "more conscientious individuals are less likely to reveal their personal space in the background." However, this seems to me like it should be using "cautious" instead of "conscientious". Not being eager to show off your personal space indicates apprehension and carefulness with what you share, I never associated these with conscientiousness.
This paper https://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/linqiu/publications/selfie.pdf shows...
> " that selfies reflect their owners’ personality traits. We identified a number of personality-related cues. For example, emotional positivity predicts agreeableness and open-ness, duckface indicates neuroticism, and private location in the background indicates less conscientiousness. These cues reflect the characteristics of their corresponding personality traits"
Meanwhile the article focused on the Oxford dictionary definition of selfie. I'd argue it's far more interesting to look at the urbandictionary definitions - there are over 70 definitions here - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Selfie some of which are over 10 years old like this one from 2009...
> A picture taken of yourself that is planned to be uploaded to Facebook, Myspace or any other sort of social networking website. You can usually see the person's arm holding out the camera in which case you can clearly tell that this person does not have any friends to take pictures of them so they resort to Myspace to find internet friends and post pictures of themselves, taken by themselves. A selfie is usually accompanied by a kissy face or the individual looking in a direction that is not towards the camera.
Duck face was called "kissy face" back then apparently. Anyway it's interesting to see how a definition on urbandictionary has evolved over time and I'd argue the urbandictionary is a better gauge of groupthink on a topic like this than the Oxford Dictionary.