Survey: A Quarter of Adults Regret Sharing Selfies

A PicMonkey and Harris Poll survey found that almost half of U.S. adults snap the occasional selfie.

selfie_600The photo editor PicMonkey teamed up with Harris Poll to survey U.S. adults on their selfie-taking habits. Selfies have seemingly taken over – the word was named Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year and #me is currently the third most popular tag on Instagram. There have been endless selfie controversies, from the teen who posted one with a dead body, to the woman who snapped one with a suicidal man in the background. Even the president is not immune to selfie controversies.

According to the online survey of 2,051 adults, 47 percent say they snap the occasional selfie.

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