Medicine and new social media: the good and the bad of taking a “selfie” for skin problems

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, selfie is a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically by means of a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media and shared with other people. The use of selfies has been dramatically increasing among the general population in the course of the last decade. Admittedly, most of us are used to take selfies in any kind of situation, for example to show others how we spent our spared time or simply how we enjoy meals, or to show off ourselves in dangerous or breathtaking panoramas. We love posting our pictures on the social networks to share them with family and friends.