what you see is what you believe in our digital age the world perceives us through our visual biodata read plandids the new selfies to put it simply its a planned selfie that looks like a candid shot lifestyle journalist anna hart says we live in a world where were all photographic directors of our own lives we steer our image in the direction of our choosing think about it we dont meet people to know them we see them enough on social media to make up our minds about them be it the way they dress or their political leanings the selfieplandid of 2018 isnt the selfie of 2013 when everyone was busy pouting the plandid today is your image maker or should we say your image manager art historian james hall author of the selfportrait a cultural history wrote in his book through selfies people are trying to identify and reinvent themselves just like they have sought to do through selfportraits throughout history whether you are mere mortals or world leaders or the pope these days selfies are the carefully curated visual biodata that determines how you are perceived by the rest of the worldfrench president emmanuel macron british pm theresa may israel pm benjamin netanyahu russian president vladimir putin are all posting selfies with lan these days says psychologist gitanjali sharma for heads of state selfie is a visual narrative to tell a larger story to create compassion and empathythere is a clear agenda these days when people take a selfie to push forward an image that you want the world to believe of you says image consultant jaspreet kaur corporates look at your social media profiles when they are about to hire you to know beyond the cv youve submitted or even the interview you may have given they want to know how you see yourself through your pictures on social mediaa new study published in the journal computers in human behavior found that how you take a selfie could give insight into your personality or at least tell you how others may perceive you the researchers found that a persons selfie corresponded well with their own selfevaluation of their personality here are a few interesting facts that emerged from the study if you make a duckface you score pretty highly on the emotional instability scale if you hide the location of your selfie you are high on the privacy quotient if you smile a lot you are open to new experiences and if you look directly into the camera you are super confidentselfieisms the word selfie made its debut in the oxford dictionaries in 2013 there are over 246 million selfie hashtags on instagram right now and over 93 million are taken every day in the subculture of selfies there are spinoff terms like belfie a photo of ones posterior helfie a photo of ones hair welfie a photo of one working out and ussie a group selfie