KILLFIES: The Deadly Result of Extreme Selfies

It’s no secret that millennials love their selfies. Just take a look at social media. Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat, you name it. They are all filled with shot after self-shot photo of some young person mugging for the cell phone camera. Sexy poses, gang sign poses, duck face poses. It’s a world (wide web) of posers. But did you know that people are dying because of these pictures?

People are dying—literally—to take a great selfie. 

A recent study found that 127 people worldwide have died while taking a selfie. Now, that may not seem like a lot, but when you consider how they died…. 

The selfie craze has caused enough deaths that they’ve actually been classified now as “killfies.” No joke. In fact, it’s been said that more deaths occur from selfies than from shark attacks. And it turns out that most are from falling from great heights.

Taking a picture of yourself should not get you killed.

1000 ways to die—the selfie edition.

Many of the deaths occur from thrill-seekers wanting to take an extreme selfie. They visit a popular site of danger and want to capture the moment with a selfie. A good number of accidents involve water. Specifically drowning. Others involved snapping selfies while driving, standing near train tracks, or while holding a loaded firearm.

Experts say that people just aren’t careful. They’re just so involved that they don’t pay attention to the reality around them.

Protect your children from a fatal mistake with a top spy app.

If you have a young person in your life who loves to snap selfies then you should look into installing cell phone surveillance software on their smartphone. By installing a high-quality spy app, you can see every picture and video they snap and share. You can also see where they are going when they head out.

Smartphone monitoring software like Auto-Forward mobile monitoring has been used by thousands of parents the world over to protect their kids. It could do the same for you and your family. Auto-Forward is a top spy app that has been featured in dozens of spyware reviews online. It’s considered one of the best cell phone surveillance software programs in the world because of its reliability.