Dangerous selfies lead to tragedy

Getting together with your friends, focusing on a tiny screen and recording a memory for life is what this generation is about.

Selfies are the new trend, and they are here to stay.

For those who don’t know, selfies are photographs that someone had taken of their self,  typically with a smartphone or webcam. They are often shared in social media with the intention of receiving a lot of encouragement and likes.

If you want to get popular, taking selfies might be the right way to do just that.

Can selfies be dangerous?

Teens are getting more creative when it comes to art and photos, and they are looking for unique places to capture the right photos.

Tragedy is happening and we need to aware that these teens to find safer locations for photos.

On May, a Romanian teenager burst into flames after accidentally touching a live wire while attempting to get an incredible selfie on the roof of a train.

Her friend, Anna Urse, 18, said it was all a plan to get the perfect photo for her Facebook account. According to Urse, she was laying on top of a train when one of her legs got stuck in the air, and an electrical field surrounding the overhead cables sent 27,000 volts surging through her body.

The teenager died in the hospital with burns to 50 percent of her body.

“Some selfies are increasingly cutting lives short. The number of accidents while people were taking selfies has been growing constantly. People are looking for new perspectives and unforgettable places; they are taking risks and they are forgetting that great photos can be done in a safe environment,” said the Russian’s Interior Ministry.

Xenia Ignatyeva, 18, a keen amateur photographer, had a great passion for taking pictures of herself with a camera she bought at the end of 2013. But little did she know, her passion was leading her to a fatal accident.

The teen plunged 30 feet to her death as she climbed onto a railway bridge for a selfie, and was electrocuted as she tried to grab live wires.

When you think it can’t get worse, it does. Unfortunately these are not the only stories of selfies that led to untimely deaths.

A bride-to-be was killed in a fatal car accidentally after taking a selfie on the way to her bachelorette party, a women fell to her death while taking selfies on a first date and a teen died after falling from the bathroom door while attempting to take a photo for the #SelfieOlympics.

We need to speak wisdom for teens that are willing to do anything to have fun. We understand teenagers, we have been there, but risking your life for a photo isn’t the way to go.

Some selfie lovers say that if there’s no risk, there’s no champagne. They promote dangerous actions and the great reward for it, some saying they are willing to do that in order to gain attention, reported CNN Kellie Morgan.

Be more cautions of your actions. Your life has more value than a simple photo.

Please avoid: Selfies with wild animals, portraits from high buildings, photos taken from cliff edges and selfies with moving trains.

Don’t let that incredible photo be the last memory you ever make.

A version of this was posted at The Vista.