Psychologists put the 'selfie' on the couch

[Jazzy]

Selfies - pictures people take of themselves - have been one of the big talking points of 2013.

"Selfie" was even named "word of the year" by the Oxford English Dictionary.

But what does the phenomenon say about the people who take them, and about society in general? #BBCtrending speaks to two experts - Lisa Orban and Andrew Przybylski - about the psychology of the selfie.

Do you take a lot of Selfies?

What did you think about what the two experts had to say?

 

[DrLeftover]

I think it's just modern graffiti saying "I was here".

I don't need to do that. People tend to remember me without it. Whether I want them to or not.

 

[Evil Eye]

I don't tend to take pictures at all, never mind taking any of myself.

I think it's just modern graffiti saying "I was here".

Rather preferable to people writing their name everywhere.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Do you take a lot of Selfies?

Nope, unless you count NONE as "a lot" ?