"But first, let me take a selfie"

First few chapters of book It’s Complicated by Danah Boyd touched upon the reason teenagers put embarrassing pictures of themselves (or in other words selfies) on the social media. On the one hand, teens worry about their look and persona on-line, but on the other they put content that underminds their look and presentation. I want to expand on that interesting issue by analyzing the existence of ugly selfies on-line. To understand the phenomena of teens’ ugly selfies on the media I’ve looked into the article Why teens can't stop taking 'ugly selfies' by Jessica Bennett in DailyLife on-line magazine. Jessica Bennet argues that ugly selfies rebel against the cult of perfection and model looking in our society established in the last decade. Impact by perfect models on the media is crucial for teenager at the age of 11-14; few minutes of looking are enough to bring teenage girl’s self-esteem down. According to the article women are tired of the perfect and photoshoped faces that have caused so many concerns and worries among the women about their look. Today, women want to reveal reality and authenticity and “Ugly selfie” is the way of “rebounding from perfection fatigue”. I personally think that this is a good and bad tendency. I like the idea of authenticity and natural beauty. Girls and women should stop using Photoshop to make their body look skinnier or face prettier, they really need to start learning about loving their look and beauty that given them from the nature. However, I’m against going to the other side of the spectrum, from one extreme to another, from perfection to ugliness. Why can’t we simply be ourselves?