Maybe you are not so nosy and just be a victim of the selfie effect

The face of who writes this is adorned with noses that, being compassionate, could be defined as gongorianas.In the Golden Age, they could have inspired some Quevedo sonnet but, in this modern and digital world , the poetic ingenuity has been displaced by the image taken from the smartphone, our daily selfie and uploaded to Instagram.Well, dear reader, if you also look like a badly faced sundial, Take care to trust what you see on your bright screen and enjoy this good news: Maybe your noses are not so big and more than a man or woman with a nose stuck or stuck, you are a victim of the selfie effect. After reinterpreting the truth and history, let's rewrite the literature now: "There was a man on a smartphone stuck, it was a distorted nose.."

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The case is that, according to researchers from the Rutgers School of Medicine (EE.UU), the photographs we take, day and day too, with our mobile phone offer us a distorted image of ourselves. The smartphone thus becomes a kind of mirror of the Callejon del Gato Valleinclanesco cat, giving us a spermic image of ourselves, especially of our nose that, perhaps, is already the most spermic part of a face.

Boris Paskhover, assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology said university explains that "young adults constantly take selfies to publish on social networks and think that these images are representative of how they really are, which can have an impact on their emotional state».The expert wants to make it clear that, when we look at one of our selfies "it is as if we see our image reflected in the concave mirror of a fair". Poor, give that example because you do not know Valle-Inclan.

the selfie, a public health problem

To prove his theory, Paskhover created a mathematical model with Ohad Fried, a researcher at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, and the results, published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, leave no doubt: an average selfie, taken about 30 centimeters from the face, h so that the nasal base appears approximately 30 percent wider and the nasal tip 7 percent wider than if the photograph was taken at a meter and a half, a standard portrait distance that provides a more proportional representation of facial features.

According to Paskhover, the way in which selfies deform the image of people is a public health problem.The American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgeons reports that 55 percent of surgeons say that people come to them in search of cosmetic procedures to improve selfies.