Selfies And The Risk They Pose To Life Due To Carelessness Of People

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This is the mobile age and everything is done at the touch of a button. There are many good things which a mobile or a cell phone provides its user’s with. The only thing is that whatever technology is at hand is also supposed to be handled the way it should be. And that only one way ‘The safe way”.  While majority of the people using mobiles follow the procedure which is required to handle this technology in a safe way. There are always the others who have a carefree attitude towards life and the same continues when they handle technology of mobile. Here are a few ways how this technology of mobiles should not be used to take the selfie’s. While there is a craze for anything new and different one should not go overboard in using it in a risky way. Many people have also addicted to take selfie’s for no rhyme or reason. Let us evaluate how a good technology is misused.

Many of the youth happen to go on drives where they find railway tracks on the way or they wait at a railway station to catch a train. Some of these youth try to take selfies of themselves or their friends while standing on the tracks which is a very risky proposition. This is observed especially in the case of youngsters and they happen to be the majority of the victims of a train hitting them as they stand on the tracks without any worry and end up losing their lives.

Some of the tourists stand on the stones on the seashore where the picture is scenic and they feel like taking a selfie. When they are involved in this process standing in the background of the sea. Due to change in tide patterns sometimes a big tides comes and drags them inside the waters of the sea or ocean and majority of these youngsters again do not know how to swim properly and end up drowning. It has also happened that someone who once rescued two such people unfortunately drowned himself trying to save them. This could have been totally avoided had these people been careful and cautious.

In some cases it so happens that the rocks which are there on the shore of the sea or ocean also form a nice background for pictures to be taken and here again selfie craze takes over. It so happens that either the person taking the picture or the person whose picture is being taken happens to drown and again these are people who are less than thirty years of age or are mostly teenagers. In this case the reason for drowning is that either the waves pull them down or there is growth of algae in the waters and the rocks are slippery and this makes them slip and fall into the waters. These sort of incidents too have taken place in the country.

Generally we like to stand on a building as especially if the building is a skyscraper it gives a panoramic view of the surroundings. Obviously people with mobiles with a good camera would want to take a selfie. In this it so happens that in the process of trying to get a good picture both the person taking the picture and the one whose picture is being clicked are involved in the process and all their attention is involved in it. The person who picture is being clicked moves back a little when asked to do so for a good photo. But unfortunately both do not know he has already reached the end of the wall and the parapet wall is not too high and trips and fall down and loses his life. A little care and caution could have saved a person from losing his life.

There are instances where people want to be photographed wildlife on the background in the zoo’s while this is not encouraged or allowed. The reach inside the barricade which is there for safety of the visitors which is a punishable crime and over and above reach the end of the moat too where wildlife is there. The wall of the moat in the zoo is very small this is because the visitors can have a better view of the wildlife. These people fall into the enclosure and end up being eaten by wildlife or at injured badly in the process even if their life is saved. Here sheer carelessness and over enthusiasm played a key role in triggering the accident.

It has also been the case where students who are too adventurous went in to sands of an empty dam where it was all dry sand and the reason they went there was to take a selfie again. This time they went deep inside the dried up lake bed as there was a rock which was there and they wanted to stand on it and get a few pictures clicked. These were engineering students on a study tour. Unfortunately the dam which was situated nearby opened the floodgates and all of a sudden the place was flood with water from the dam and more than 15 students lost their lives. Many bodies were not traced. That particular college even now does not conduct any educational tours after this incident. These students were also warned by the teachers accompanying not to go their but they did no listen due to the selfie craze. Many bright lives got snuffed out.

Sometimes police constables are alloted the duty of taking pictures of traffic jumping the line at the signal or other such places. Basically they are performing their duty with the mobile by taking selfie and loading the same to the website. Some times to get a proper picture of the number they end up moving on the road where heavy traffic is there and have been hit by vehicles on the road and lost their lives. It was totally avoidable. And the traffic police could have adopted better methods to capture this traffic crime by the rider in a safer way. So that lives likes these can be saved.

There are also cases where people who were tourists and were wanting to click selfies also have fallen from the boat on which they were standing when the photo was being clicked. This happened due to movement of the boat due to water and small waves. It also so happens that at that particular moment the boat is turning which makes people lose balance and either fall in the water and drown as they do not know how to swim or they fall inside and have grievous injuries on the head.

What this goes to show that technology was not at fault, but  the people who were using them were the ones who were not responsibly using them. While taking selfies is not bad, whatever one sets out to do should be done in a safe way, so that loss to life of self and of others does not take place.  The interesting thing is majority of the people happen to be youngsters and they do this when elders  and family are not around. There is a sense of freedom which they want to enjoy but they do not understand that freedom too comes at a price and if misused costs have to be paid in the form of ones life. These sort of incidents happen regularly, but the sad part is once the incident is over in  a few days people tend to forget it. Till something else happens. Public memory is very short and it extracts a price every time these incidents are forgotten.